RMG Networks Posts $8.3M Operating Loss For Quarter May 8, 2014 by Super User RMG Networks posted its quarterly financials today, a rough set of numbers the company is attributing to weaker ad revenues and higher operating costs pinned to adding to and changing sales and marketing efforts. The company reported an adjusted operating loss for the last quarter of $8.3 million, compared to a pro forma operating loss of $2.6 …
First Look: RMG Networks’ New Executive Briefing Center May 8, 2014 by Super User Executive Briefing Centers and Customer Experience Centers – both essentially showrooms on steroids – are not terribly new to a lot of technology sectors, but they’re quite new to the digital signage space. Probably because … 1. Few companies could afford to build them. 2. The competition wasn’t. That’s started to change as the industry …
This Network Brought To You By Cheetos May 7, 2014 by Super User A Phoenix mobile tech and marketing company has done a letter of intent to buy an existing digital signage network, with the goal of cornering the ad market in places that legally sell marijuana. SinglePoint, Inc. plans to buy Drive Media Network , for cash and stock, with the initial plan to install Drive Media screens in medical and …
3M Officially Bails On Digital Signage Business May 6, 2014 by Super User There was a time when 3M was the genuine deal in the the digital signage software business, but it has been a few years since the company and its product have made any real noise. The last muffled sounds came Monday as the manufacturing giant announced it had sold off “certain assets in connection with …
Bizplay Latest Find In Dutch Digital Signage Hotbed May 5, 2014 by Super User Maybe I just haven’t noticed, and it’s been like this for a while, but The Netherlands seems to have developed into one of those regional hotbeds for digital signage, in the same way Southern Ontario and the Twin Cities did earlier on. The latest of MANY companies I have numbed into that come out of Holland …
Facebook Makes It Easier To Get Its Social Content To Screens May 1, 2014 by Super User Much of the social media visualization done in digital signage has focused on Twitter feeds and particularly hash tags, but Facebook has released a new API that is intended to draw some of the attention to its own social streams. The Trending, Topic Insights, Topic Feed, and Hashtag Counter APIs were announced Wednesday by Facebook’s Public …
Who Writes This Stuff??? April 29, 2014 by Super User Who on Earth writes this stuff, and better yet, who approves it??? From a breathless email I just got from Intel Intelligent Retail Solutions: The beauty of digital signage is the ability to deliver the right message to the right audience at the right time. To realize this ambitious goal, digital signage needs new technologies …
Hong Kong And Taipei-Bound: Who Should I Meet? April 29, 2014 by Super User When IAdea’s John Wang sent me a note several weeks ago asking me to help put out a call for speakers for a digital signage conference in June in Taipei, I immediately thought I wouldn’t mind doing that. Turns out I am. I put in a pitch, was chosen, and will be blabbering away at the …
Buying Digital Signage Online Is About As Rock-Solid As Jello April 28, 2014 by Super User Somehow or other I bumped into a link for a SIIG digital signage player, as listed on Staples’ Canadian online store. First, I thought, who is SIIG? Then I thought, Staples sells digital signage??? SIIG is a Fremont, California device manufacturer that’s into all kinds of things, and has a streamer device it touts as …
Projects: Cinnabon Reimages Stores With Digital Menus April 28, 2014 by Super User Here’s an interesting before and after set from work WAND Corporation is doing with Cinnabon. The re-image of the store took it from analog to digital menus, and where sometimes it is hard to tell in a QSR what’s a sign and what’s a display, here the screens add a lot more pop and information. …
