Several Business Factors Driving Booming OOH Ad Market In Middle East, N. Africa: WOO February 20, 2023 by Super User Several factors – from location and education to macro business policies – are behind a booming out of home advertising market in the Middle East and North Africa, says the head of the World Out of Home Organization. “The stars are aligned,” WOO President Tom Goddard told delegates at the non-profit body’s first MENA Forum …
Loop Media Rings NYSE Opening Bell As It Builds Free Digital Signage/DOOH Footprint In US February 16, 2023 by Super User Linkedin regularly has giddy photos of groups of business people surrounding the boss as she or he rings the bell at the New York Stock Exchange, and a recent one caught my eye, as the firm is in the DOOH media networks business. Loop Media develops and supports a series of curated music video and …
Samsung Coming Out With New Digital Signage Software Solution, VXT CMS, Ahead of InfoComm February 16, 2023 by Super User There were two main comments at the recent ISE pro AV trade show about Samsung – the electronics giant’s curious booth access policy and word that its CMS software MagicINFO was to be supplanted by a newer, more rounded and accessible CMS software offering called VXT. I eventually found my way behind the restricted access, …
Chalk Elevated To VP Sales For BrightSign February 14, 2023 by Super User Analytics tell me readers aren’t all that interested in news about new hires and titles at companies, but BrightSign ships a LOT of little purple media play-out boxes, so news of who is now running sales at the Silicon Valley company will matter to all kinds of resellers and integrators. Misty Chalk has been bumped …
Two-Thirds Of Digital Signage Companies Seeing Double-Digit Growth: Invidis February 13, 2023 by Super User The first numbers are out from the Digital Signage Business Climate Index (DBCI) produced by Sixteen:Nine’s content partners in Germany, the consulting-events-publishing firm invidis, it suggests a lot of companies in the sector are seeing encouraging growth. 65 percent of the companies surveyed by invidis achieved double-digit sales growth in 2022, and the industry generally sees …
Accenture Ventures Makes Strategic Investment In Holographic Display Maker Looking Glass February 10, 2023 by Super User The huge professional service/consulting company Accenture has made what it describes as a strategic investment through its Accenture Ventures wing in the holographic displays developed and marketed by Brooklyn-based Looking Glass Factory. Accenture says tech like the Looking Glass displays – which have some depth and change what viewers see based on angle – “offers …
Vestel Adds SignStix As CMS Option For Its Smart Display Lineup February 9, 2023 by Super User North Americans who attended ISE for the first time may well have wandered into the main hall where all the big display manufacturers were located last week, and saw a very large stand for Vestel, and wondered: “Who is that?” Vestel is a very large display manufacturer based in Turkey (which is having a heartbreaking …
ISE Pulls More Than 58,000 Attendees For 2023 Show February 4, 2023 by Super User ISE 2023 pulled in more than 58,000 unique attendees this week – including the largest first day crowd ever for the pro AV trade show. The show in Barcelona had 58,107 unique attendees from 155 countries. “It’s been an extraordinary week and it’s hugely gratifying for us to look back and realize we’ve delivered an exceptional …
Activist Investor Firm Pushing For Removal Of Daktronics CEO And CFO In Wake Of SEC Filings January 30, 2023 by Super User An investment firm that owns just shy of 6% of the South Dakota LED display manufacturing firm Daktronics is pushing the company and its board to punt CEO Reece Kurtenbach, citing “deep-rooted issues” with how the company is being run and its performance. Alta Fox Capital Management published a letter, and replicated it as a …
Nashville Gets Even Better With Awesome New Airport Terminal Lobby January 26, 2023 by Super User I’d be very happy if every trade show I went to in the US was in Nashville, and not in Vegas or, ugh, Orlando. But it is my understanding that digital signage and AV trade shows are not organized, weirdly, just to suit me. Nashville is a great place on a bunch of levels (live …
