Vertiseit Acquires Visual Art; Fast Becoming One Of Europe’s Largest Digital Signage Solutions Companies October 3, 2024 by Super User Consolidation in the digital signage solutions market in Europe is continuing with word, this morning, that Vertiseit is taking over its Swedish competitor Visual Art, with the Stockholm-based company continuing to operate as an independent company under the Vertiseit umbrella. The transaction was funded in multiple ways, the most interesting one being financing from Bonnier …
Kitcast Goes Enterprise With V2 Of Its Apple TV-centric CMS Platform October 2, 2024 by Super User I get emails all the time from software companies saying they’ve released version 3.1.2a of their platform and I tend to ignore them … because if I write about one, I kinda feel obligated to write about them all. Which would consume my days and see readers slipping into comas However, I will write about …
GSTV Partners With Gas Station Payments Tech Firm Invenco On Retail Media Offer October 1, 2024 by Super User The gas pump media firm GSTV has developed a retail media product and related services in partnership with a company that makes the payments technology for many of the gas stations across the U.S. – offering up what the companies call a unique, branded media experience. Engage Media Full-Service will offer fuel retailers the ability …
You Probably Didn’t Know The Plasma Display Industry Is Killing It These Days September 30, 2024 by Super User I have written probably too many times about Indian research factories and suspect reports that invariably show a sunny outlook for whatever looks like an industry, and despite those efforts, I still see all kinds of vendors (and one hopeless trade publication) still referencing the reports and giving them unearned legitimacy. I won’t go over …
U.S. Congressional Committee Chair Urging Government To Blacklist Big Chinese Display Manufacturers BOE, Tianma September 30, 2024 by Super User The Michigan congressman who chairs the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party is encouraging the U.S. government to blacklist a pair of giant Chinese display manufacturers over concerns that using display tech from that country for advanced US military systems presents a tangible security and supply chain risk. Congressman John Moolenaar has sent …
Ambitious New Pop-Up Store On London’s Oxford Street Borrows On Nearby Outernet London’s Visual Scale September 30, 2024 by Super User Something that might be described as a pop-up retail version of the immersive, LED-driven Outernet London attraction is opening soon just a couple of blocks away, on the UK capital’s busiest high street. Future Stores will fill the Oxford Street-facing ground floor of a commercial block, using big entryways and curtain wall glass to give …
College Campus Food Delivery Robots Now Sport Ads On Cargo Boxes September 24, 2024 by Super User Some sort of advertising is slapped on everything from commuter trains, cube trucks and taxis, and all the way down to the cargo boxes on the rear of scooters, so it is no surprise that a company that does its deliveries by autonomous rolling robots sees an opportunity in advertising. Berkeley, CA-based Kiwibot, most known …
DOOH-Driven EV Charging Network Starts Rollout In Canada; Prospects Shaky Based On History Of These Efforts September 20, 2024 by Super User I wish them luck, but the history for companies that start capital and operating expense-intensive DOOH media networks is not great. An Australian EV charging company has announced plans to roll out what could be 5,000 locations across Canada, offering motorists with plug-in vehicles free kilowatt hours at stations that have large digital ad screens …
Captivate Partners With AdTech Firm Adelaide To Assess “Media Quality” Of High-Rise DOOH Audiences September 20, 2024 by Super User The dominant media operator of DOOH screens in North American office tower elevators has done a partnership to use technology and methodology called “attention metrics” to give advertisers more insights into what happens when the steel doors open and people pile in. Captivate has a strategic partnership with another NYC company, Adelaide, which describes itself …
AV-related Trade Shows Are Back On This Fall, And They Seem To Be Thriving September 18, 2024 by Super User The trade show season is very much back on after a summer break, and the events that touch on pro AV and digital signage directly or by extension seem to be thriving – most notably the giant IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin. The 100th edition of IFA Berlin attracted more than 215,000 visitors from …
