Broadsign, Sustainability Platform Scope3 Partner On Comprehensive CO2 Footprint Modelling For DOOH Networks March 6, 2025 by Super User You don’t get the sense energy conservation and greenhouse gas issues are going to get much attention in the U.S. anytime soon, but it’s something much of the rest of the world is looking at and in some cases putting rules and regulations around. To that end, the Canadian, DOOH focused CMS and programmatic company …
Daktronics’ Longtime Boss Reece Kurtenbach Steps Down From Company His Dad Co-Founded March 5, 2025 by Super User It would be reasonable to think that word from Daktronics that it had come to an understanding with its activist investors meant the company could focus entirely on making and selling big indoor and outdoor LED displays, but on the immediate heels of the investor fuss being resolved comes word that the company’s longtime President …
Nice Story: Hometown Friends And Families Whose Investments Got Reach Media Started See Payoff In Poppulo M&A Deal March 5, 2025 by Super User The Minneapolis Star-Tribune newspaper has a nice story up going into the deal announced yesterday that saw Poppulo acquire the company REACH Media Network, going into its small town Northern Minnesota origin story. The company was founded some 20 years ago by Darren Wercinski and Marc Kline, who was bought out and now handles sales …
LED Giant Daktronics Reaches Settlement with Activist Investor After Years of Conflict March 5, 2025 by Super User The executive and board of big US LED display manufacturer Daktronics seem to finally have a protracted battle with an activist investor resolved, with news that a “cooperation agreement” has been reached with Alta Fox Capital Management, ending a three-year dispute that went all the way to litigation and public demands. The dispute began in …
Poppulo Acquires REACH Media Network, Giving Parent Firm A Distinct SMB-Focused Solutions Option March 4, 2025 by Super User Were there any doubts about whether Poppulo had its attention back on the digital signage market, the company that many industry lifers will know more as Four Winds Interactive has acquired a software competitor, with REACH Media Network now part of Poppulo but continuing on as a separate entity chasing the SMB business that its …
Wallboard Releases Version 2.0 Of Its Digital Signage Management Software March 4, 2025 by Super User If I wrote about all the version releases of CMS software platforms readers would greet all that with as much as enthusiasm as a lengthy explanation of how actuarial science is applied to risk management in the insurance industry. So I tend to skip past those press releases when they drop in my email inbox. …
DOOH Expert Gutnik Having Off-Hours Fun Trying Stand-up Comedy March 3, 2025 by Super User I’m always mildly red-faced when asked what I have as hobbies or passions or off-the-wall interests, because I don’t have anything that would make someone snap back and say, “Oh wow, Really?” Is yardwork a hobby? I have three chainsaws! Buying wine, but then just drinking it??? Boring, but I’m at peace with it. I …
Samsung Still Tops In Global TV Market Share, But China’s TCL And Hisense Coming On Fast: Counterpoint Research March 3, 2025 by Super User Like the data earlier in the day from Omdia, new insights from Counterpoint Research are about TVs and not professional displays, but are nonetheless indicative of larger business trends – in this case that forecasts about China eventually overtaking Korea in the TV market are coming true. Samsung still have the largest global market share …
UK Pub Group Seeing Tangible Sales Lift From Screens At Bars Just Peddling Pours And Snacks March 3, 2025 by Super User Here’s an interesting video bankrolled by Samsung’s UK operation that digs into the why and the outcome of deploying some 3,500 smart displays across pubs and bars in the UK, as part of a retail media network operated by a company that operates 1,000s of places to get a pint or cocktail in England, Wales, …
OLED TV Sales Seeing Double-Digit Growth; 85-Inch TVs Now Mainstreamed: Omdia March 3, 2025 by Super User There’s good reason to think OLED is never really going to be a mainstream option for pro display networks because of its relatively high costs and technical limitations, even with those limitations like brightness somewhat or fully addressed. But OLED is doing well in the much larger market of consumer televisions. New data from the …
