AV gearheads, and me, getting set for InfoComm May 28, 2010 by Super UserI’m starting to do my planning and scheduling for InfoComm, which is just a week and a half out now. It’s about the biggest show of the year for the panel, projector and AV integrator guys in this digital signage sector – an event aimed more at the propellerhead and arms and legs guys than …
Show Me The Digital Signage Money Summit Back On May 24, 2010 by Super UserOne of the more popular and successful Strategy Institute conferences the company does on this sector is the one on investors, probably because raising money is anything but easy. The 5th annual Digital Signage Investor Conference has been announced for Oct. 5-6 in New York, this time moving up from the Wall Street area and …
Toronto's Sick Kids Hospital turns on multilingual wayfinding (yay!) May 18, 2010 by Super UserFor two or three years now I have been blabbering on with people about the opportunity hospitals present to use screens in a meaningful way, and it finally looks like someone is doing it. There are likely others, but this is the first install I know of that uses interactive screens in hospital lobbies to …
The Screen sets first US DOOH event for June in NYC May 17, 2010 by Super UserThe guys behind The Screen in the UK – driven by Digital View and a few others, I think – has been doing events in London for a few years now and next month jumps the pond for its first North American event – a morning event on June 22nd done in collaboration with the …
Digital Signage Federation adds student chapter May 17, 2010 by Super UserLike most people I thought the whole tomato fight between the Digital Screenmedia Association and the Digital Signage Federation would have been resolved after a few weeks. But it’s been almost three months and the two sides are still pushing out PR and trying to be the prettiest girl at the dance. The DSA has …
Media Post DOOH awards: And the winners are … May 14, 2010 by Super UserI don’t know if this is indicative of much, but I nonetheless find it interesting that virtually all of the winners of last night’s MediaPost Digital Out Of Home Awards are companies that would be considered part of the digital signage and DOOH sector, as in companies that show up at trade shows and conferences …
Canuck health and wellness retailer switches systems/networks May 13, 2010 by Super UserJust about exactly a year ago there was a press release out about health and wellness retailer Nutrition House doing a deal with ScreenScape to run its digital signage offer in its stores. Now there’s an announcement saying Nutrition House has done a deal with Marketplace Station, a different Canadian digital signage solutions and network …
Forum tomorrow in NYC covers DOOH landscape May 12, 2010 by Super UserMediaPost probably more than any other “mainstream” ad industry publication keeps a steady gaze on the Digital Out Of Home sector, and it’s reflected in how they have developed and run a substantial event each year looking at DOOH. The next one is tomorrow in New York, and it looks like a nice solid line-up …
AdFlow bags another wireless retailer May 12, 2010 by Super UserThe AdFlow guys up the road from me (I can just about see their building from my roof … when I am up there threatening to jump) have found a nice little niche in the digital signage retail marketplace working with wireless retailers. They already had a few clients from that sector and just signed …
Financial Times: Big retail now investing heavily in digital May 11, 2010 by Super UserThere’s an interesting piece today in the UK Financial Times about big American retailers coming to grips with the huge changes being brought on by smart phones and digital. … three years after Apple launched its first iPhone, the advent of what retailers call “mobile connectivity” is profoundly shaking up the way retailers do business, …
