Webinars Coming Up This Month On Digital Signage Content Basics, And Data June 3, 2016 by Super User Not sure what’s up, but lately I’ve been involved in a string of webinars, helping put various companies and organizations. There are at least two more coming up. The Digital Signage Federation, which I’ve finally joined, has a June 15 “Hangout” session on the Basic Content Do’s & Don’ts for Digital Signage, in which I’m guessing I’ll …
Digital Meeting Room Signs Start-up Gets $7M Series A Raise June 1, 2016 by Super User I keep reading and hearing how venture capital is hard to come by these days, in digital signage and well beyond, but one Boston-based company has scored a $7 million investment to drive its business in digital meeting room signs. Yup, that boring little killer application that sells itself as soon as people see it. …
Vertigo Digital Displays Acquired By Smart Cities Firm CIVIQ May 31, 2016 by Super User Toronto-based outdoor display fabricator Vertigo Digital Displays has been acquired by CIVIQ Smartscapes, the relatively new company that is supplying “connected urban infrastructure technologies” in emerging “smart cities” like New York. CIVIQ Smartscapes is the named owner, but the real owner is JMC Capital Partners, the private equity firm behind CIVIQ. The deal means Ralph Idems and …
DSrupted 2016? Nope. May 30, 2016 by Super User Several people have asked me if I will be organizing a third version of DSrupted, a conference focused on emerging and disruptive technologies in the signage market. The short answer is No. And here’s the longer answer: The 2015 and 2015 conferences generated very positive feedback, and the events confirmed my sense that there is …
InfoComm Lists 361 Digital Signage Exhibitors – Some Who Actually Do Digital Signage May 26, 2016 by Super User InfoComm has never really been a big show for the software side of the digital signage business, and that’s a trend that continues in a couple of weeks in Las Vegas. There are 361 exhibitors that have associated themselves to the digital signage category, among many, in the exhibitor directory. But I don’t think there are …
Newad Spinoff Launches Targeting Platform For Canadian Digital OOH Networks May 25, 2016 by Super User Montreal-based media company Newad, which has a big digital out of home screen footprint through much of Canada, has announced a new spinoff company it says brings media targeting and a cost per view media placement model to digital OOH networks in this country. Campsite Global is being described as an automated advertisement purchasing solution specifically …
Projects: Samsung’s Godzilla-sized Smartphone Billboard In Moscow May 23, 2016 by Super User Samsung is marketing its new Galaxy S7 Edge phone in Moscow by draping one full side of an office tower with an LED curtain wall and adding a top and bottom that makes it look like a Godzilla-sized version of the new phone. The set-up is on Moscow’s Gidroproekt building, which is on the route …
Convergent Is Back, With New Management Team, Focus On Genuine Turnkey Offer May 20, 2016 by Super User Atlanta-based solutions provider Convergent has re-packaged its marketplace offer and given it a new handle: Digital Signage As A Service, or DSaaS. That kinda sounds like a ski resort in Austria, but I assume people will talk it up as Dee-Sass and all will be fine. The company, at the same time, has announced a new …
Fine Pixel Pitch LED Sales Grew 366% In 2015: IHS Research May 18, 2016 by Super User The arrival on the market of fine pixel pitch LED displays has sparked a big jump in shipments globally, but the competitive landscape is so crowded that total revenues have only jumped slightly, according to a new marketplace report by the research firm IHS. Total unit shipments for all pixel-pitch categories in the direct-view LED video …
InfoComm’s Speaker Line-Up Set for Digital Signage Summit May 17, 2016 by Super User The speaker line-up now seems to be in place for the Digital Signage Summit at InfoComm, being run by the German consultancy and event group Invidis Consulting. The summit is on Tuesday, June 7th, from 8 AM (groan) to 3:30 PM, I think/assume/better find out that it is at the Las Vegas Convention Centre. I better find …
