Bluefin Expands Well Beyond Its Countertop Screen Roots; Now Markets Displays As Large As 86 Inches November 18, 2024 by Super User The commodity side of selling commercial flat panels has to be tough these days given the rise of lower-cost Chinese products and an industry shifting to LED, but there is evidently still room and opportunity in the market for specialty displays in smaller sizes and suppliers that can cover just about any display size need …
PRN Opens Retail Media Networks Bridgehead In Europe With 5,000+ Screen Deal Involving Fitness Club Chain November 14, 2024 by Super User Stratacache subsidiary PRN has made its first big move into the European retail media market, doing a partnership deal to sell and manage ads on screens in Basic Fit, Europe’s largest fitness chain. The deal is PRN’s first retail media contract across the Atlantic, involving more than 5,000 digital signage displays in more than 850 …
Loop’s Rough Year Gets Worse; Asks For Restraining Order To Block Sale Of Its Assets By Main Lender November 14, 2024 by Super User A year that one might describe as, umm, turbulent just keeps dishing it out for digital out of home media company Loop Media, which makes a streaming news and entertainment channels , as well as basic digital signage capabilities, available to businesses. There were layoffs in the spring, most of the leadership team was walked …
Premium TVs Now Seen As Biggest Business Segment For MicroLED Display Tech: DSCC November 7, 2024 by Super User The San Diego-area research and consulting form DSCC has released the latest edition of its MicroLED Display Technology and Market Outlook Report, which suggests microLED TVs are now the biggest segment for the emerging tech. Wearables were expected to be the biggie, but that changed earlier this year when Apple – which has a huge …
Digichief Adds Library Of Start-up Stream’s AI-Driven Broadcast-Like News Feeds November 7, 2024 by Super User Longtime subscription content provider Digichief has done a distribution partnership deal that adds a set of start-up STREAM’s plug-and-play video feeds to its digital signage content feeds. “With STREAM, we are able to provide our clients with curated, vertical specific news and information, highly scalable and targeted for no volume deployments,” says Gene Hamm, Founder …
Taco Bell Has Processed 2M+ Drive-Thru Orders Using AI; Now In Use at 300+ US Stores November 7, 2024 by Super User Hat tip to kiosk expert Craig Keefner for pointing to this … Anyone wondering if voice ordering in QSR drive-thrus would mature and would get adopted by consumers can reference what Taco Bell is doing in the U.S. The CFO of Yum! Brands, which owns Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut, said on a Q3 …
Start-up’s In-Cabin Digital Display Solution For Commercial Jets Permanently Grounded By Backers November 6, 2024 by Super User The German start-up that was developing a high-end commercial airplane information and entertainment solution built around OLED displays is shutting down, with the passenger cabin digital solution developed by Aerq and backed by Lufthansa and LG as a joint venture failing to get off the business runway. Started in 2019 by Lufthansa Technik and LG …
Global OOH Media Body Says Digital Screens Drive 40% Of Revenue While Only 10% Of Installed Base November 6, 2024 by Super User The head of the World Out of Home Organization says OOH advertising growth, especially in Europe, is the being driven by digital screens, with 40% of revenues from less than 10% of locations. WOO President Tom Goddard told the WOO Europe forum in Milan this week that “a big opportunity is being missed with Classic …
DSF Board Voting Opens Tomorrow November 5, 2024 by Super User There is some sort of election today in the US, but the truly big one starts tomorrow as the Digital Signage Federation opens up its voting for next year’s board of directors. The terms are two years, and it is not totally clear, but I THINK four slots are opening up. I don’t know Lex …
AV Magazine’s 2024 Awards Are Out: Here’s The Digital Signage-y Winners’ List November 5, 2024 by Super User The UK trade publication AV Magazine has what always looks a boozy, fun black tie and gown awards evening each fall, celebrating the best of the industry … focused mostly and understandably on Europe and the Middle East. The 2024 edition was held this past weekend. The awards cover a lot of territory and you …
