Futuresource’s ISE Wrap-Up: Price Erosion Continuing In LED; LCD Use Range Narrowing March 15, 2023 by Super User The UK-based research and consulting firm Futuresource sent a pile of people – 22 market analysts – to Integrated Systems Europe in Barcelona, to walk the halls, talk to vendors and sit in on presentations. That investment and effort builds up knowledge and helps shape future reports, but the company very helpfully puts out a …
LED Display Maker Watchfire Bulks Up Sports Capabilities Via Spectrum Scoreboards Acquisition March 13, 2023 by Super User LED display manufacturer Watchfire has bulked up its capabilities in the live sports market via the acquisition of Spectrum Scoreboards, giving Watchfire what it describes as “a complete line of fixed-digital sports scoreboards and timing displays.” Funded by private equity owners H.I.G. Capital, the purchase of Spectrum assets gets Watchfire one of the largest privately-owned …
What Does Silicon Valley Bank Failure Mean For Digital Signage Industry? Hard To Say … Yet March 13, 2023 by Super User Weekend e-mails with some industry contacts were all about what was going on with the run on, and then failure of, Silicon Valley Bank and what that might mean for some companies in the digital signage ecosystem. There was already talk of 2023-24 looking like a very rough stretch for companies that are still growing …
Surge Pricing Comes To QSR, Enabled By Digital Menu Displays March 10, 2023 by Super User In the early days of digital signage, management software and screens were promoted as a way for quick service restaurant operators to much more easily and quickly change what was on the menus posted behind order counters – notably removing things like breakfast items that are unavailable the balance of a day. Years on, with …
Pittsburgh’s NHL Arena Owners OK $30M In Upgrades, Include New LED March 9, 2023 by Super User It looks the LED display deal is already locked up, but flat panel display and software firms maybe – repeat maybe – still have a sniff at some of the $30 million just approved for upgrades to PPG Paints Arena, home of the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins. Sports Business Journal reports that the authority that owns …
New Daktronics Financials Suggest Business Viability Issue In Rear-View Mirror March 9, 2023 by Super User LED display manufacturer Daktronics appears to have got past supply chain and cash flow challenges that forced the company late last year to note in SEC filings that its business viability was in question. The SEC filings in December caused shares on the NASDAQ to plummet, and forced the company to delay its earnings release. …
LG Launches Training Academy Aimed At Boosting Awareness, Expertise For Direct View LED March 9, 2023 by Super User One of the reasons many LED manufacturers market fixed-size all-in-one LED displays is that their partner ecosystems include a lot of companies and people who don’t fully have their heads around how these kinds of display projects come together. The challenge with that approach is that bundled solutions can limit what might get pitched and …
JCDecaux’s 2022 Financials Show DOOH Revenue Up A Whopping 41% Globally March 9, 2023 by Super User The biggest out of home media company on the planet had a terrific 2022 – led by DOOH revenue that grew by more than 41%. JCDecaux released its full year 2022 financial results earlier today, showing group revenue grew by almost 21% in 2022, to reach €3,1 Billion ($3.3 Billion USD). Jean-Charles Decaux, Chairman of the Executive …
Telecine, YCD Partner On Custom On-Premise TV Channels For Retail Banking March 7, 2023 by Super User Solutions provider Telecine and software developer YCD Multimedia have developed a partner product that is, in effect, a financial news TV channel customized for banks. Called RAMP Up! , the product is intended to provide steadily updated information-you-can-use content to screens in retail banking scenarios, leveraging the data feeds and produced content of Bloomberg News, …
Global Ad Spend Up 7.5% Last Year, To $714 Billion: Research March 6, 2023 by Super User Global advertising and marketing spending was up by 7.9% last year, to $1.568 trillion, but the media research firm PQ Media suggests 2023 growth will be at a tamer 5.3% clip in 2023. Broken out, PQ Media says the global advertising sector grew 7.5% in 2022 to $713.97 billion, while the overall marketing sector expanded …
