Digital Signage Proximity Marketing Goes (Very) High Frequency November 4, 2013 by Super User John Kirkpatrick, or JK as he is widely known, has been around this sector forever, having started FRED Systems 20 years ago and selling the pioneering digital signage software system to Mercury Online (which 3M then bought) in the early to mid 2000s. These days he does management consulting and is banging the drum for …
Flanigan Tapped To Head DSA November 1, 2013 by Super User Paul Flanigan is in and David Drain is out at the Digital Screenmedia Association, with Flanigan taking over as executive director and Drain taking on a different gig with Networld Media Group, which provides management services for the not-for-profit trade association. Drain is now s senior vice president of events for Networld. Flanigan “brings a tremendous …
Leading Authority You’ve Never Heard Of Pegs Digital Signage Market at $14 Billion October 31, 2013 by Super User A Denver-area research company that seems to have its collective eyes on everything under the sun – including photovoltaic cells this week – has issued its take on the prospects for the digital signage sector. I greet analyses by “experts” from research firms that are experts on everything with considerable ambivalence. But if you have …
Seenspire Releases Gorgeous Digital Signage Holiday Video Packs October 29, 2013 by Super User The content company Seenspire does some really nice work both on the creative and scripting side, and has just released a package of videos that cover 12 holidays and events – from Christmas to St. Paddy’s Day – with two versions of each. The nice wrinkle here is that part of the deal is the company …
Yes, But WTF Do You Do? October 29, 2013 by Super User One of the things that I had to self-excise from my Your Baby’s Ugly presentation last week was a discussion on how companies tend to market themselves in this sector. So many get caught up playing Buzzword Bingo that it’s increasingly tough to cut through the crap and sort out what the companies actually do …
NEC’s VUKUNET Started As ZUKUNET October 28, 2013 by Super User Funny little tidbit from Pierre Richer’s 25 minute riff at the tail end of the DailyDOOH Investor Conference last week in New York. The head of NEC Display said when he and his team were pulling together the plans for digital signage ad-serving platform, they wanted a short, intriguing and cool brand name, a la …
Commoditized: Now You Can Get Interactive Projection Systems For Sub-$500 October 26, 2013 by Super User Gizmodo has a piece up today about a company looking for funding, via Kickstarter, that has largely commoditized the technology used for interactive projection systems. What the company has is intended for the bedrooms of little kids, but Raspberry Pi was intended as a kit to teach schoolkids about computing, and that went in a …
Projects: Macy’s Herald Square In NYC October 25, 2013 by Super User The biggest department store in the world is now, not surprisingly, turning into the biggest retail digital signage project in the world. Or at least looks like it is. I had about an hour before heading to NYC JFK on Thursday so I zipped down to see the renovations I had been hearing about Macy’s …
Your Baby’s Ugly October 25, 2013 by Super User Here’s an audio-backed version of the presentation I did at the October 2013 DailyDOOH Digital Signage Investor Conference in NYC. It’s about 25 minutes but moves along nicely. Enjoy (I hope).
Trolls May Have Seven More Digital Signage Patents Coming (or More) October 25, 2013 by Super User The just-ended DailyDOOH Digital Signage Investor Conference was held in a conference room of a big NYC law firm, so one of the intriguingly handy things was having specialty practice lawyers directly speaking or dipping in on the presentations. On Day 2, a patent lawyer was pulled into the discussion and led a fascinating chat …
