Green Signage May Be A Very Active Discussion Point in Europe, But It Barely Comes Up In North America May 28, 2024 by Super User This is a retail display totem made of wood – put together by the Dutch digital signage solutions provider First Impression and shown last week in Munich at Digital Signage Summit Europe – one of several so-called “green signage” products and solutions highlighted at the event. The company is making it available to customers as …
PRN Expands Retail Media Networks Activities To Europe May 23, 2024 by Super User PRN has been doing in-store media for decades in America but with all the activity and buzz lately around retail media networks, it has expanded its operations into Europe. The San Francisco company, owned by STRATACACHE, has launched a new in-store retail media focused division, logically called PRN Europe. It will be run by Amsterdam-based …
LED Giant Daktronics Debuts New Media Player … For LCD Displays May 21, 2024 by Super User In a move that would quite possibly confuse the hell out of people, but makes sense, the big US LED display manufacturer Daktronics has announced a new media player engineered to drive LCD displays. But Dak doesn’t make LCDs, some cross-eyed readers are perhaps muttering after reading that. True, but the Brookings, SD company gets …
Sharp’s US CEO Stressing TV Plant Shutdown In Japan Not An Indicator Of Any Larger Issue For its Pro AV Business May 17, 2024 by Super User Sharp’s US office was in touch after I posted a story earlier in the week that suggested the company was getting out of the TV business, hoping to reinforce that while a TV production facility in Japan is indeed being shut down, The President and CEO for Sharp globally Wu Po-hsuan said Tuesday in Japan: …
US-based Creative Realities Laying Groundwork To Expand Reach Into EMEA Region May 17, 2024 by Super User One of the numerous panels I am moderating next week in Munich at the invidis Digital Signage Summit includes Creative Realities CEO Rick Mills. It is a session intended to look at the state of the North American market, and help European companies understand the opportunity and challenge of cracking the busy but crowded U.S. …
US OOH Industry Sees Record Revenues; DOOH Now Almost One-Third Of Activity: OAAA May 17, 2024 by Super User The U.S. out of home advertising industry continues to be in a big growth cycle, with year-on-year Q1 revenues up 6.8% in the first quarter of 2024 and that number almost hitting $2 billion. The numbers are from the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA), which says the $1.94 billion in revenues represents …
Mobile LED Rental Firm GoVision Upgrades Fleet To Near Fine-Pitch Resolutions May 16, 2024 by Super User My local pro football club – the mighty Halifax Wanderers of the Canadian Premier League (yes, there is such a thing) – play at what amounts to a pop-up stadium below a fort in the old Canadian harbor city, and one of the big new features added last season and back this year is an …
Owner Foxconn Shutting Down Sharp’s TV Display Business May 15, 2024 by Super User Japanese electronics giant Sharp announced this week it is getting out of the TV display business, shutting down production lines in Japan and looking at selling businesses. This is televisions, not pro displays, so that does not mean InfoComm is a last stand for Sharp NEC, which markets high-end commercial displays, projectors and other systems. …
Sphere’s Backers Get Full Ownership Of Key Tech Supplier, Directional Audio Firm HOLOPLOT May 13, 2024 by Super User One way for a high-profile attraction to deal with other projects “inspired” by the originally is to partially or fully influence or control the businesses of key technology suppliers, especially those supplying somewhat unique solutions. Sphere Entertainment, the company behind that giant, much-Instagram’d LED ball in Las Vegas, has done a deal to realize full …
Broadsign Broadens European Reach With Acquisition Of Dutch DOOH DSP OutMoove May 13, 2024 by Super User Digital OOH-focused adtech and media software firm Broadsign has expanded and enhanced its footprint in Europe and especially the Netherlands with the acquisition, announced this morning, of the Dutch adtech firm OutMoove. The two companies have always been closely linked, with Amsterdam-based OutMoove’s demand side platform integrated almost since start-up with Montreal-based Broadsign’s Reach Supply-Side …
