Spectrio’s New Private Label TV Allows Venue Operators To Avoid Cable TV Viewing Conflicts In Common Areas April 2, 2024 by Super User Digital signage software and experiential solutions firm Spectrio has developed a new service that lets operators curate and control what’s on the screens in common areas – like customer waiting rooms and staff break lounges. Called Private Label TV (PLTV), the service allows businesses like car dealerships to better control what’s airing on the TVs …
LinkNYC DOOH Ad Totems Set For $20M In Upgrades April 2, 2024 by Super User The widely-deployed LinkNYC digital OOH ad network on the sidewalks of New York City has had a spotty business history since it was launched a decade ago, culminating with a New York state audit noting in Sept. 2021 revenue and build-out shortfalls. But there is evidently enough confidence in the media model that $20 million …
Research Firms Futuresource, BCC Merge March 28, 2024 by Super User Research companies aren’t what leap to mind when there’s word of mergers and acquisitions, but we have a second one in the last few months involving firms known for watching and quantifying the pro AV sector. UK-based market research consultancy Futuresource Consulting and Boston-based market research firm BCC Research have announced a strategic merger. “There …
BT, Global Expanding High Street Ad Totem Network In UK By As Many As 2,000 Sites March 27, 2024 by Super User UK telecoms giant BT Group and its business partner Global are evidently finding success with a conversion of payphones on public sidewalks to what it calls Street Hubs – display totems that have multiple functions but exist mostly to run DOOH advertising. The companies have announced that up to 2,000 more conventional BT payphones and …
Uniguest, Allbridge Partner On Chasing, Servicing Hotel, Senior Living Sectors March 26, 2024 by Super User Nashville-based Uniguest has long been focused on the hospitality and senior living industries for its technology solutions, including digital signage and in-room TV, so it makes sense that is has signed on a reseller partner that also sells what it calls property technology into the same sectors. Allbridge, is now a Uniguest Digital Engagement Platform …
GSTV Gas Station DOOH Screens Add Content Tie-Ups With Gaming, Influencer Marketing Publishers March 22, 2024 by Super User It’s been reasonable to wonder how many people are interested in commodity information like news headlines, weather and sports scores pushed to screens on gas pumps, so I get why GSTV is partnering with content companies who can offer something different. The Detroit-based DOOH media company, the dominant player when it comes to gas station …
CRI Posts Record Revenue, Gross Profits; $14.5M Sales In Q4 March 21, 2024 by Super User I don’t like putting too much of a focus on one company – in good times or bad – but Creative Realities is one of just a small handful of digital signage companies that are public, and therefore have to open their so-called kimono and show the rest of the industry what’s going on. And …
Loop Media Board Shows Door To Most Of C-Suite, Starts Layoffs, In Wake Of Ops And Finances Review March 19, 2024 by Super User The LA-based connected TV service Loop Media – which makes free, ad-supported content channels and digital signage functionality available to businesses – has bingo’d most of its C-Suite and laid off some staff in an effort to slow its burn rate. Jon Niermann is stepping down as CEO, but retaining a board seat, and COO/CMO …
Key-Copying Kiosk Company Has Ad Network Of More Than 4,200 Screens In US Retail March 18, 2024 by Super User Anyone who has been in the digital signage industry for a few years knows how there are always newbie entrepreneurs excited about launching networks that put screens on all kinds of things, in all kinds of places. And anyone who has been in the digital signage industry for a few years knows very few of …
Hisense Latest Display Maker To Develop, Market Own Commercial Digital Signage CMS March 12, 2024 by Super User China’s Hisense is the latest flat panel display manufacturer to develop and start marketing its own digital signage software platform, announcing a CMS and remote device management solution called VisionInfo. The software is described by Hisense as cloud-based, flexible, cost-effective, and very scalable. VisionInfo includes a comprehensive CMS solution and advanced remote display management features. …