Grocer Giant Albertson’s Publishes Framework For Establishing Needed Retail Media Network Standards June 26, 2023 by Super User US grocer Albertson’s has taken the interesting step of publishing a framework for establishing standards and best practices for the rapidly expanding area of retail media networks (RMNs), working from the premise that the lack of commonality across these omnichannel initiatives is a significant barrier to success. The grocer says RMNs are at a pivotal …
Retail Media Network Tech Firms Neptune, Quotient “Combine” In $430M Deal June 26, 2023 by Super User A couple of retail media network technology firms have “combined” – with NYC-based Neptune Retail Solutions reaching an agreement to acquire the Salt Lake City firm Quotient in an all-cash deal valued at about $430 million. Neptune has a pile of in-store solutions and services that range from stickers and tags on products at shelves …
Court Filings On $200M Lawsuit Filed By Cooler Screens Against Walgreens Detail A Big Freaking Mess June 20, 2023 by Super User An industry friend sent me a copy of the complaint filed with an Illinois court regarding the dispute between US chain drug giant Walgreens and Cooler Screens, the DOOH start-up that was retrofitting the store’s chiller sections with custom-made transparent LCD screens embedded in the doors. It’s a big freaking $200 million mess. The heavily …
German DOOH Firm Gets $23.5M In New Financing To 6X Screen Network Across Three Countries June 19, 2023 by Super User If you have been involved in the digital signage and DOOH sectors for many years, you’ll have made or heard observations and predictions that all those posters out there in shop windows would one day go digital. It didn’t happen as quickly as maybe expected because of capital costs and both brands and media planners …
Spectrio Opens New, Remote Work-Optimized Offices, Design Center And Showrooms in Tampa June 13, 2023 by Super User The digital signage and customer engagement firm Spectrio has officially launched its new Tampa-based customer design center, showroom and head office headquarters – a facility that makes a direct nod to how workplaces are changing. Spectrio, which owns and publishes Sixteen:Nine, says the building in the Pinecrest West Park neighborhood of Tampa has product showrooms and …
Cooler Screens Suing Whale Customer Walgreens For $200M Over Halted Rollout June 9, 2023 by Super User The company that has been building out a retail media network based around “smart” transparent LCD chiller doors in major chains is now involved in a $200 million lawsuit against a whale account, drug chain giant Walgreens. Cooler Screens has filed an action in an Illinois state court, alleging Walgreens reneged on a rollout agreement …
Firefly Gets Beyond Pure DOOH Ad Sales; Enters Joint Venture Providing Tech To Abu Dhabi Media Firm June 7, 2023 by Super User Anyone who has run a digital OOH ad network has learned, sometimes the hard way, that it looks easier than it is to make an business viable – even more so when the technology set-up is expensive and technically challenging. So it is intriguing to see the Silicon Valley star-up Firefly, which puts digital displays …
BrightSign Partners With Chinese Display Giant TCL On New Variant Of Smart Commercial Displays June 7, 2023 by Super User Integrators and solutions providers who use a lot of BrightSign boxes to drive displays will soon have an option for a series of “smart” displays that have built-in BrightSign media player boards – a move that in theory makes these embedded displays an alternative to the smart displays made by numerous commercial screen manufacturers. The …
Global LED Video Display Sales Up 12.8% In Q1; Absen #1 Manufacturer, But Samsung, LG Catching Up June 7, 2023 by Super User LED video display shipments recovered globally by 12.8% YoY in the first quarter of 2023, according to a summary from the research firm Omdia. The recovery was seen in most regions, except for Japan and Western Europe. Researcher Tay Taehoon Kim posted on Linkedin some of the highlights of a paywalled report – LED Video …
Digital OOH-Focused Broadsign Adds Support For Managing, Analyzing Static OOH Inventory June 6, 2023 by Super User It is slightly weird and ironic that after all the efforts in recent years to convince media companies to transition their “faces” from static to digital that one of the most active enablers of that is now offering support for posters and billboards that are remaining static. Montreal-based Broadsign, which has grown its business by …
