From The Archive: Chris Riegel On Growing His Stratacache Empire August 1, 2018 by Super User It is VERY hard to find people working – full days, or at all – in the lovely, hot summer most of us are seeing in North America and Europe. A couple of podcast interviews have fallen through in recent days, so I decided to go into the archive and revive an episode from a …
IntuiLab Rebrands As Intuiface, Aligning With Flagship Product July 27, 2018 by Super User The French interactive software company IntuiLab has completed a rebranding exercise that concluded the firm’s name should directly align with the name of the core product. So IntuiLab will, going forward, be known as Intuiface. “It’s a major milestone for the company as the interactive market accelerates and a unique opportunity for the Intuiface brand …
RMG Latest Digital Signage CMS Software Shop To Add LG webOS Support Via Korbyt July 19, 2018 by Super User RMG Networks is the latest CMS software and solutions company to develop support for LG’s webOS smart display platform. The company’s Korbyt platform is now compatible with the display giant’s Linux-derived system on chip platform. Korbyt is RMG’s relatively new cloud-based CMS. Dallas-based RMG suggests combining webOS Signage and Korbyt offers many benefits. “LG’s clients already using …
UK Sushi Chain Changes Up Menuboard Approach With Super-Stretched Displays July 19, 2018 by Super User Here’s a nice implementation of digital menuboards in a fast food environment – changing things up with super-stretched displays and a bold, reasonably minimal content presentation – instead of many items wedged into limited visual space. The project involves the London, UK-based sushi and bento restaurant chain, Wasabi, at seven stores around that city. The digital displays …
Videos: Helpful Insight On Using User-Generated Content In Digital Signage July 16, 2018 by Super User Brad Parler of UK-based CMS firm ScreenCloud has completed a nice three-part video series on user-generated content for digital signage. Houston-based Parler, you may recall, joined ScreenCloud earlier this year, having built up a name doing very innovative corporate communications content for his old masters, blinds.com. I’ve had a few emails recently from end-users asking …
How To Keep Your Digital Signage Audience Looking July 16, 2018 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix If you’re going to have digital signage, you need a content strategy. If you don’t have something on screens at all times to draw attention and interest viewers, they’ll start tuning out. That can seem like a daunting task – collecting, creating and designing digital signage messages every day. But …
Printer Federal Heath Wins Digital Signage Rollout Deal With Kwik Trip C-Store Chain July 12, 2018 by Super User The mainstream printing/visual communications firm Federal Heath has been working its way into the digital signage sector in fits and starts for the last four or five years, but I met a guy at DSE who said his company was organized now for this business and getting some traction. A deal with a substantial US c-store …
Nick Fearnley Talks About How SignStix Makes Smart Displays Really Smart July 11, 2018 by Super User I am guilty of thinking about SignStix as yet another smallish digital signage CMS company scratching out a living with low-cost subscriptions and equally low-cost Android stick players. Based in Yorkshire, England, SignStix is a lot more than that. The company is indeed small, but doing some stuff that is a little bit mind-blowing. It …
Kia Motors Russia’s Full Dealership Digital Signage Network Consolidates On Scala July 10, 2018 by Super User All the Kia dealers in Russia have now rolled out a communications program, running off Scala, that reflects the Korean automaker’s new “Red Cube” brand identity. The new dealerships mix corporate red buildings, big glass windows and a new space identity involving car displays, points of attraction and functional zones. Customers see multiscreen video walls, …
Why Open Digital Signage Is A Competitive Advantage – Part 2 July 9, 2018 by Jami McGraw Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea Corporation In Openness as a Competitive Advantage – Part I, published in March 2018, I shared an example of successfully winning a prominent financial institution client who needed an open platform solution. In that case, the in-house AV/IT crew wanted the ability to perform customizations for business objectives that were …