JCDecaux Having Strong 2024, With Revenue Up 14% Overall But DOOH Up 28% July 29, 2024 by Super User The largest outdoor advertising company on the planet is seemingly having a happy 2024, with JCDecaux’s half-year results showing group revenue up 14%, with digital being a big driver of that success. DOOH revenues were up 28.3% (27.8% on an organic basis) and digital display is now 36.8% of group revenue, versus 32.7% for the …
Korbyt Integrates Its Workplace Experience Platform With Crestron’s AirMedia Systems July 23, 2024 by Super User Integrations with workplace collaboration platforms like Teams and Zoom are growing commonplace for digital signage solutions and platforms targeting business communications as a vertical, but I haven’t seen as much work done with the big companies that do pro AV controls in those environments. So it’s interesting to read of a partnership Dallas-based CMS Korbyt …
Southwest Airlines Kept Flying Through Global IT Outage Because It Still Uses Windows 3.1, Circa 1992 July 22, 2024 by Super User Through Friday’s global IT outage, it started to become clear that the enterprise-level digital signage networks most affected by the CrowdStrike security update boo-boo seemed to be airports and airlines, but U.S. carrier Southwest Airlines screens were minimally affected because the carrier, somewhat astonishingly, is using versions of Windows coded in the 1990s. Numerous IT-focused …
Omnivex Does A Lot of Windows-based Digital Signage Networks, And CTO Says They’re On Top Of It July 19, 2024 by Super User When I first learned this morning of the CrowdStrike update that was causing Blue Screens Of Death on computers running Windows (and CrowdStrike security software), I started thinking about the implications for digital signage software vendors that have scores, hundreds or even thousands of endpoints running Microsoft’s operating system. The company that most comes to …
Photos And Videos: How Windows/Crowdstrike Issues Affecting Airlines And Airports July 19, 2024 by Super User It is VERY difficult these days to discern what is real and what is the cheeky fakery of someone who knows their way around image and video editing tools. But poking around online for a while reveals some real examples of problems brought on by the Windows/CrowdStrike issues that developed overnight. Most notably, in the …
Panasonic Sells It B2B Projector Business July 19, 2024 by Florian Rotberg This post first appeared on the site of content partner invidis … According to NHK, Panasonic has finally found a buyer for its professional projector business in Orix. The Japanese financial investor Orix is said to be paying the equivalent of around 580 million euros for the ProAV business. In May it was announced that …
Ambitious Digital Signage Still Getting Deployed In Ukraine, Despite War July 19, 2024 by Super User I got a nice note overnight from a company in Ukraine, thanking me for earlier coverage of a petrol station in Kyiv that went up, with 200 sq. meters of LED display in the forecourt area, even while the war continued on and on with Ukraine’s Russian invaders. Inna Bielik from the company Fasade Master …
New DOOH Academy Certification Course Aims To Get Indie Billboard Operators Up Steep pDOOH Learning Curve July 18, 2024 by Super User The educational effort spun up to help buyers, sellers and operators up the considerable learning curve of digital out of home advertising and programmatic DOOH (pDOOH) now has a course aimed at independent billboard operators who are still, at least in some case, making the shift to digital from analog. The DOOH Academy’s Billboard Operators …
This Digital Signage Software Firm Is Letting Customers Decide If They Want AI-based Functionality July 18, 2024 by Super User While a lot of digital signage CMS software and solutions companies are trying every which way to work AI into their marketing and PR messages, the CEO of a UK CMS firm has taken the interesting step of saying his company is dialing back its AI support and enabling customers to unilaterally switch off AI-backed …
Spectrio Launches Menu Board App Intended To Simplify, Streamline Messaging Across Multiple Use-Cases July 18, 2024 by Super User Spectrio has developed a set of online tools intended to streamline and simplify what can be arduous tasks of organizing, populating and updating business-critical digital menu boards, whether that’s at quick service restaurants, attractions ticket windows or business service and order counters. The Tampa company’s new Menu Board App is position as a toolset that …
