Get DSrupted On Sept. 17th In Toronto April 28, 2014 by Super User All the pieces are in place and live now for a one-day conference I’m putting on in Toronto, called DSrupted 2014. The day will be focused on the opportunities and implications of disruptive technologies on the digital signage industry. DS=Digital Signage. Disrupted. So DSrupted!!! My God I’m clever. Anyway … The event is set for Sept. 17th, …
PetCare TV Harmonizes Ops On BroadSign April 24, 2014 by Super User BroadSign seems to be on a bit of run lately, adding more and more network clients. The latest deal is PetCARE TV, which has converted its network of 1,750 screens to BroadSign’s software platform. The network puts screens in the waiting rooms of veterinarian offices, and PetCAREpretty much owns that vertical. A third of programming is used for …
DSA Waives Initiation Fee In Spring Membership Blitz April 22, 2014 by Super User The Digital Screenmedia Association has launched something of a membership drive, dropping initiation fees for a limited period and reducing the cost for organizations who dropped off but want to return. The DSA says waiving the initiation fee – for the next month – could save an organization as much as $2,000. The DSA also …
Social-Focused Digital Signage Start-Up Enplug Gets $2.5 Million Seed Backing April 18, 2014 by Super User LA-based startup digital signage start-up Enplug has done a $2.5 million seed round from what looks to be a broad range of tech investors, the money intended to broaden the company’s footprint. The funding, reports TechCrunch, comes from a number of investors, including Oaktree Capital Co-Founder Larry Keele, Juniper Networks Founding Member Rasoul Oskouy, Idealab Founder …
IMRSV Makes Cara Video Analytics Platform Available Free April 18, 2014 by Super User The audience measurement firm IMRSV, which was earlier called Immersive Labs, has made its video analytics platform Cara available free for companies that want to kick the virtual tires of the technology. The “Personal” version of Cara allows up to three universal licenses of the software, and there’s a cap on impressions and API calls. …
Video: Montreal Deployment Firm Shows Its Hang & Bang Skills April 18, 2014 by Super User It’s rare enough to see video case studies on projects involving software and solutions providers, but even more rare to see a nice, polished video from a company that does the “hang and bang” side of digital signage. This is an effective video developed by a Montreal company, Cablage Expert, that is focused on digital signage …
Microsoft Files Counterfeiting Lawsuit Against Digital Signage Player Firm April 16, 2014 by Super User A Los Angeles-area company that sells digital signage media players has a bit of a problem on its hands after software giant Microsoft filed a lawsuit this week, alleging Technovare Systems was selling PCs that had bootlegged versions of Windows running on them. The case filed this week in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, …
Video: Duggal Uses Animation To Drive Digital Signage Offer April 15, 2014 by Super User Here’s a nice example of an animated explanatory marketing video for Duggal, a big US printing/visual solutions company that has in the past couple of years added digital signage capabilities. This sort of thing, when well-executed, can do a nice job of laying out what you do and how you’re different. I know the Duggal …
Projects: Giant NASDAQ Dubai Stock Ticker April 15, 2014 by Super User Elevision has done all of its media inside office tower elevators in Dubai, but now the Digital OOH firm has added a giant 96-metre wide LED ticker board outside one of the emirate’s iconic buildings, the Dubai International Financial Centre. The screen is the largest in the Middle East and will be used to report …
Hughes Reminds Sector About Its Own Digital Signage Solution April 15, 2014 by Super User There are some big companies out there that every so often pop up and remind me that they are in the digital signage business, at least a little. Hughes Network Systems, known mostly as a broadband satellite solutions provider, made some noise this morning about its HughesON Digital Media Solutions – which does the usual …
