Spreading Festive Cheer And Driving Sales With In-Store Digital Signage Technologies: Spectrio October 9, 2024 by Dave Haynes SPONSORED CONTENT By Ron Levac, Spectrio The holiday season is a critical time for retailers – with the period between October and the end of December often called the golden quarter for sales. A successful holiday season can make a retailer’s year, while a poor one can lead to losses, cash flow problems, and excess …
Info Screen In Way Of Subway Station Renos, So Construction Crew Just Builds Around (Most Of) It October 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes There will hopefully be some logic to this, but here’s a screwball workaround to dealing with passenger information displays while a subway station is undergoing renovations. Instead of taking a ceiling-mounted display down, the framing crew just built around the screen, so that just a portion of it is now visible to riders. This is …
How Do You Market An Important But Profoundly Dull CMS Feature? Make A Disco Song About It. October 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes Quite regularly now I get emails from companies with press releases about how their software platform has adopted some security protocol or completed some certification process. While that stuff is VERY important, it doesn’t make for the most compelling posts. And it is also pretty hard for the company to market effectively. Which brings me …
Vertiseit Acquires Visual Art; Fast Becoming One Of Europe’s Largest Digital Signage Solutions Companies October 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes Consolidation in the digital signage solutions market in Europe is continuing with word, this morning, that Vertiseit is taking over its Swedish competitor Visual Art, with the Stockholm-based company continuing to operate as an independent company under the Vertiseit umbrella. The transaction was funded in multiple ways, the most interesting one being financing from Bonnier …
Kitcast Goes Enterprise With V2 Of Its Apple TV-centric CMS Platform October 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes I get emails all the time from software companies saying they’ve released version 3.1.2a of their platform and I tend to ignore them … because if I write about one, I kinda feel obligated to write about them all. Which would consume my days and see readers slipping into comas However, I will write about …
StratosMedia Adds TLS Authentication To Its Platform’s Security Measures October 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes I am wading into a thick patch of technical weeds here, and already feeling stuck, so will mostly just relay word that the Australia-based CMS software firm StratosMedia has added on to its stack of security measures with a certificate-based authentication measure called TLS. This kind of security measure uses certificates to verify the identity …
Amazon Launches $100 “Signage Stick” And Small Digital Signage CMS Partner Roster October 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes Updated … Well this is intriguing … Amazon has started marketing a lean version of its Fire TV HDMI sticks with the digital signage market in its sights – even calling it the Amazon Signage Stick. The $100 USD device looks like most Fire TV sticks, but the difference is that the stuff that’s loaded …
Videotel Launches Its Most Powerful Little Digital Signage Media Player To date October 1, 2024 by Dave Haynes San Diego-based Videotel Digital has started marketing what the company calls its most powerful media player to date – a little Android box with a lot of RAM and a pair of HDMI outputs to drive two separate or sync’d content streams. The new VP92+ is also interactive-ready for any of Videotel dozen touch or …
Look Ma, No Dongles! Screenshare Tech Firm Airtame Adds Virtual Version That Includes Digital Signage Platform September 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes A Danish company called Airtame has been making and marketing hardware dongles with supporting software that enables hybrid conferencing, screen sharing and basic workplace-focused digital signage. Now Airtame has started marketing a Virtual Airtame solution that takes the dongle out of the hardware mix, making it possible to do that stuff using a dedicated app. …
Swapping Posters And Backlit Logo Signs For Digital Screens In Bars Generates 30% Sales Lift For Beverage Brand September 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes NYC-based Videri has really raised its profile in the last couple of years, via marketing, trade shows and hiring some well-known and respected industry vets. But it has never managed to find a way to trumpet the work it does with a “whale” client. Until now. Kinda sorta. The company is most known for its …
