Samsung Canada Smart Signage Event Set For Toronto November 11, 2013 by Super User The Canadian wing of Samsung has organized a half-day event intended to get digital signage integrators and distributors, as well as web developers, up the curve on its Smart Signage system on chip panel series. It’s a half-day conference that includes a lunch break and time to dig into what the technology is all about. …
The Big-Ass Tablets Are Coming! November 10, 2013 by Super User Bryan Mongeau from BroadSign is a very close follower of the Android space, both of the software and the gear. He sent along a note flagging this new smart screen from Acer, as showcased on The Droid Guy blog. The cleverly-named TA272HUL (rolls off the tongue, doesn’t it?) is a 27-inch monitor with a very …
Guest Post: Jump-Starting An Enterprise Digital Signage Program November 10, 2013 by Sean James The era of static, non-interactive, digital media is over. Digital proliferation will continue as screen and other hardware costs keep going down and software and interactive capabilities continue to improve. Everywhere you look digital screens are being added – including within the enterprise. For those tasked with executing the entire network – from concept to actual …
DSA Crowns Content Winners (Inc. Videos) November 8, 2013 by Super User The Digital Screenmedia Association held its DSA Crown Awards this week on the first evening of the Customer Engagement Technology World show in New York, broken down by the context and by content budget size. The winners: Point of Sale (content budget of $10,000 or more) Gold: Mercedes-Benz USA AMG Performance Center Digital Display, submitted by All Things Media …
Ronin Creeps Yet Closer To $100M Deficit November 8, 2013 by Super User The latest quarterly financials from Wireless Ronin are out: Q3 2013 Financial Results Revenue in the third quarter of 2013 was $1.5 million compared to $1.8 million in the same year-ago quarter. The decrease was primarily due to a decline in kiosk orders received from individual Fiat dealerships, partially offset by a follow-on order from Polaris …
CETW – Day 1 Impressions November 7, 2013 by Super User I thought the crowd was pretty decent in terms of numbers, and there were lots of people coming and going. Throngs? No. Steady? Yeah, probably. My very unofficial understanding is the numbers expected were up. This is definitely not a digital signage show. It has several vendors with those capabilities, but also loads of vendors …
ScreenScape Goes Platinum With Private Label Offer November 6, 2013 by Super User ScreenScape Networks, based in beautiful little PEI in Canada’s Atlantic region, has been around for many years with a web-based digital signage platform that has largely been positioned at the entry-level and SMB markets. They’ve done pretty well, from what I can tell, in building up a list of networks in the small to medium …
Research: Digital Place-Based Posed For Major Growth Via Multi-Screen Campaigns November 5, 2013 by Super User This will warm the hearts of anyone charged with advertising sales at a Digital Out Of Home network. A new study by the ANA (Association of National Advertisers) and Nielsen – done among client-side marketers, agencies and media sellers – suggests media spending related to campaigns run across multiple screen platforms will make a big jump in the next …
Amscreen’s Minority Report Reference Sparks UK Shit-Storm November 4, 2013 by Super User Any media coverage having to do with face pattern detection and advertising – like what Quividi does – seems to invariably prompt tired old references to the 2002 film Minority Report. Never mind that the technology is nothing like that. It’s in the same popular culture hemisphere, so use it. Fine. Got it. Used to …
Looking Ahead To CETW This Week November 4, 2013 by Super User I have not been to CETW for a couple of years – mostly a scheduling thing that saw me somewhere else. But I am heading over to Buffalo tomorrow afternoon and down to JFK for two days at the trade show in New York. I tend to go to DSE for the trade show floor …
