DSE 2018 Booth Previews: Carousel Digital Signage February 28, 2018 by Super User Carousel Digital Signage – Booth 1336 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Carousel Digital Signage is the premier signage CMS for education and corporate facilities What’s your big marketing message to attendees, and what’s it all about? We empower broad participation while maintaining …
Sweden’s Smartsign Touts 20% Growth In 2017, And Reach All The Way To Down Under February 23, 2018 by Super User The Swedish CMS software firm Smartsign has pushed out interesting numbers about its efforts to broaden the customer base – noting that three years ago 90% of business came from home, and now 50% comes from outside Sweden. “We are especially happy about this, and are gaining more and more shares of the markets. We …
Photo: STRATACACHE, Scala Hold Americas Sales Summit For 65 February 21, 2018 by Super User STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel sent me a photo from this week’s sales meetings in, I think, suburban Philly, where Scala is based. STRATACACHE is based in Dayton, OH but flying into Philly would be a lot easier. The meeting is the 2018 sales summit for North and South America, and involves about 65 people, he …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Joaquim Lopes On 4YouSee And The Latin American Digital Signage Market February 21, 2018 by Super User I have traded emails with Joaquim Lopes for at least couple of years now, and he has been telling me about his company 4YouSee and its efforts providing software and services to the Latin American digital signage market. He was at Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago, and when we finally …
Riegel, Stratacache Now Have 100% Ownership Of Scala February 14, 2018 by Super User STRATACACHE now has 100% ownership of Scala, having acquired all outstanding Scala shares and Scala divisions around the globe including Scala Inc., Scala BV, Scala KK and Scala Nordic AS. “Scala has created an excellent brand and execution footprint around the globe over the past thirty years, tailoring their digital signage offerings to the specific …
ISE 2018: Day 3 Impressions: SOC Screens Are Rolling Out In Volume February 9, 2018 by Super User Finally spent some substantial time in Hall 8 at Integrated Systems Europe, where many of the digital signage vendors are located. That said, there are vendors – particularly smaller ones – in sometimes odd spots, the product of late bookings or skimpy budgets. I chatted with Signagelive, which has a nice integration set up with …
Report: ComQi Acquired For $28M By Taiwanese Panel Maker AU Optronics February 8, 2018 by Super User Digital signage CMS software firm ComQi has reportedly been acquired for $28 million USD by Taiwanese flat panel display manufacturer AU Optronics in a play to become a total solutions provider in this industry. It’s a lot of money, and from what I understand is more than what Stratacache paid for Scala. ComQi has been …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: How To Build Digital Signage Ad Spots For As Little As $15 February 7, 2018 by Super User There’s no question that making a proper investment in creative is essential to successful digital signage networks, but there’s also no question that a lot of small businesses don’t have the budget for full motion graphic design work, or wouldn’t even know who to ask to do that work. A few companies have popped up …
ISE 2018 Pre-Show News And Impressions February 5, 2018 by Super User The buzz around Integrated Systems Europe is that the show, which is sort of on now but really opens tomorrow, could push past 80,000 attendees. That’s a lot of people to squeeze into the RAI conference center in Amsterdam, even with a jumbo temporary tent out front and a new exhibit are that has taken …
Intersection’s US Digital OOH Network To Run Off BroadSign Control January 30, 2018 by Super User It will be BroadSign Control under the hood, going forward, for the digital poster network run by smart cities-centric media company Intersection. Intersection will use Broadsign’s content management system, Broadsign Control, to schedule and deliver advertising and dynamic HTML5 content to a national national network of Link kiosks, urban digital poster panels, interactive station platform …