T-Mobile Has $600M Deal To Buy AdTech Firm Vistar Media January 13, 2025 by Super User Mobile carrier T-Mobile has a definitive agreement to acquire Vistar Media, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital-out-of-home (DOOH) advertisements reaching millions of consumers throughout their daily lives. T-Mobile will pay approximately $600 million in cash, subject to closing adjustments. Through the T-Mobile Advertising Solutions business, T-Mobile will acquire all of Vistar’s industry-leading capabilities. …
Clear Channel Continues EU Exit, Selling Europe North Business To Hamburg’s Bauer Media Group January 9, 2025 by Super User The US-based outdoor media company Clear Channel is continuing to back its way out of the EU market, with news now that the company has sold its Europe North business to a family-owned and run business that has operations in everything from radio and print to radio. Clear Channel has a binding agreement to sell …
Screenfeed, Signagelive Deepen Technical Ties, With Content Subscriptions Available On CMS Side January 7, 2025 by Super User The subscription content company Screenfeed and one of its longtime CMS partners Signagelive have deepened their ties through an integration that brings Screenfeed’s many content options inside the Signagelive user experience and can be bought without leaving the CMS software, and without needing to register separately as a Screenfeed account. Screenfeed’s content feeds are now …
Invidis Seeking Vendor Input For Latest Business Climate Index And Forecast January 7, 2025 by Super User The folks at Munich-based invidis are again encouraging companies not only in EMEA but globally to contribute to its Digital Signage Business Climate Index (DBCI), a survey intended to get a sense of the current state and future forecast of the digital signage industry, every quarter and at the end of the year. They are …
Userful Evolves Infinity Platform With Full Suite Of Workplace Visualization Tools, Including Signage Applications January 7, 2025 by Super User Calgary, Canada-based Userful has been steadily evolving its platform offer through the years, and is now positioning its offer “as a comprehensive suite of interconnected data visualization tools for both centralized and distributed operations” that includes a lot of workplace digital signage capabilities. Userful says its Infinity Platform gives users single license access to as …
DSF Adds Four New Board Members: Ault, Barnes, Dickson And Leedy January 6, 2025 by Super User I was wondering how I missed the announcement of the new members of the Digital Signage Federation Board and then I saw the date – the same day I was on the back-end of finally getting home from DSE (took 30 hours because I made the fatal error of trying to make a simple connect …
Nordic Hotel Operator Evaluating Transparent LCD-Driven AI Avatars To Handle Check-ins And Guest Questions December 30, 2024 by Super User A hotel operator in Scandinavia is evaluating one of those life-sized transparent LCD display systems and an AI-driven avatar to check in guests when no front desk staff is around to process registration and hand over room access cards. The AI greeter was first launched last month at the Aiden by Best Western Lolland hotel …
US Cable And Media Giant Comcast Expands Digital Signage Capabilities By Adding New Tech Partnerships December 30, 2024 by Super User The US media and telecoms giant Comcast has added a pair of what it calls “new collaborations” with tech firms that are intended to expand its capabilities as a digital signage solutions for targeted enterprise customers in vertical markets like healthcare, hospitality, QSR and sports and entertainment venues. Comcast Smart Solutions, which specializes in smart …
UK Touch Tech Manufacturer Needs To Sell Or Wind Down As Sales Have Stalled December 20, 2024 by Super User Unfortunate news out of the UK, with the northern England touch technology manufacturer Zytronic making it known that is looking at selling the company or even shutting down because of sluggish sales. The listed company has issued a trading update outlining how sales in the last year fell from £8.6m to £7.2m, and that there …
Pro AV Industry Growth Continues to Slow Through Fall 2024: AVIXA December 19, 2024 by Super User The global Pro AV industry has been decelerating in late 2024, with both October and November posting some of the year’s lowest growth figures, according to new stats and observations generated in AVIXA’s Pro AV Business Index. The trade association’s AV Sales Index (AVI-S) declined from 53.4 in October to 52.1 in November, which is …
