New Scala Board Is Unsurprisingly STRATACACHE-Heavy August 24, 2016 by Super User STRATACACHE CEO/Owner Chris Riegel cleared out the board last week when he acquired rival software CMS firm Scala, and the company has now announced a new board, which does includes a Scala veteran. Gerard Bucas was the CEO of Scala from 2002 to 2011, and was as part of that a longtime board member. Everyone else is, not …
The Table Stakes of Digital Signage August 23, 2016 by Super User “Table stakes” is an appropriated term from the card table, used in the business world not for poker bet limits, but on what a company needs to have to really be competitive. I was asked the other day what the so-called table stakes now in digital signage – those “things” a company must have to be taken seriously as a software vendor or …
Sweden’s ZetaDisplay Buys Up Norwegian Competitor ProntoTV August 22, 2016 by Super User The Swedish digital signage firm ZetaDisplay announced today it has completed a deal to acquire ProntoTV AS, which is touted as the largest digital signage supplier in neighbouring Norway. The company paid NOK 75 million (about$9.10 million USD) on a “debt-free basis” plus an earnings-based supplemental purchase price in a maximum amount of NOK 25 million, which …
Another Quarter, Another Big Loss For CRI August 22, 2016 by Super User Another quarter, same story for the blended digital signage vendor entity that rolls up as Creative Realities. The latest financial filings show the Wireless Ronin-Creative Realities-Broadcast International-Conexus World combination is still losing a pile of money, and issuing a lot of promissory notes. From the filing: Liquidity and Capital Resources We incurred net losses and negative …
Norwich City FC Gets Shape-Shifting, Pivoting LED Board August 19, 2016 by Super User This is clever – a stadium LED board that changes orientation based on a schedule and type of content, and pivots so that it’s viewable from different angles around the grounds. The stadium screen is up at Carrow Road, the home of Norwich City Football Club, which plays in the 2nd tier of pro soccer in England (they …
Four Winds Previews Next Month’s Forward Conference In Denver August 17, 2016 by Super User Four Winds Interactive is holding what will be its second, now annual educational conference next month in Denver, and has released the agenda and overall plans for the Sept. 21-23 event. I went last year and thought, for a first stab at it, the event was quite good and useful both in terms of the …
Enter The AV Nerd Nonagon On 9/9 August 16, 2016 by Super User This looks and reads like a hardcore pro AV nerdfest – a networking and education event next month in Anaheim with the call to action of traveling to the 9th dimension at the NitWit Nonagon. Ummm … OK??? I asked, and organizer Randy Pagnan of RP Visuals explained that Nit references a common measure of …
Density Debuts New Way To Count, Report And Display Crowds And Lines August 10, 2016 by Super User There’s a podcast episode up today about Density, a San Francisco start-up that has launched a new type of people-counting sensor I think has some interesting potential for the digital signage market. Density was launched by Apple alums and former founders of Y Combinator. Their product is touted as a simple sensor-as-a-service that uses infrared beams to …
Astral OOH’s Toronto Pearson Deal Means Canadian Airport Ad Dominance August 4, 2016 by Super User Montreal-based Astral Out-of-home has won the ad concession for Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, and with that now has ad rights in Canada’s three busiest airports and largest markets. Astral’s airport media business, owned by the communications conglomerate Bell Media, already has Montreal and Vancouver, as well as Ottawa and Halifax. Pearson is the biggie, though, …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Florian Rotberg, Invidis August 3, 2016 by Super User This week I’m speaking with Florian Rotberg, the managing director at the Munich-based digital signage consulting and events firm Invidis. Florian talks about the background of his company, and his impressions of the global digital signage market. Rotberg goes into detail about the differences between the North American and European/EMEA market, and the challenges American and …
