MLB’s Mets Keep Players Informed With Clubhouse Digital Signage October 2, 2017 by Dave Haynes Business communications is a very active vertical for digital signage, but I don’t think I’ve run into another project like the workplace communications being used at Citi Field for baseball’s New York Mets. Like most pro sports venues there are screens in the concessions areas and elsewhere, but what’s different here are screens in the …
16:9 Projects Podcast: Digital Signage Across A Northern City September 29, 2017 by Danica Trapara This isn’t a project that’s large in terms of pixels or screen counts; its impact is in its scale. The Canadian city of Sudbury is about a four-hour drive north of Toronto. With a population a little less than Jackson, Mississippi, it is the 7th largest municipality by area in Canada. Capital Networks has been …
STRATACACHE Acquires Finnish Shopper Analytics Startup Walkbase September 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes Dayton, OH-based STRATACACHE has fully acquired an interesting Finnish startup called Walkbase that generates in-store analytics on shopper characteristics and patterns. The company’s software stack does the sort of tracking that uses things like roaming Wi-Fi from smartphones, as well as in-store sensors, to attach anonymous personas to consumers and then develop rich analytics around …
Keywest Technology Debuts Swiss Army Knife Media Player September 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes Software and solutions companies are always pushing out news of platform updates, but it’s not that often I see one of these companies talking about new hardware they’ve put together. Kansas City-based Keywest Technology, which has been around this industry for 15 years, is touting what it calls a multi-use player that operate as a …
Screenscape Ranked Among Fastest-Growing Companies In Canada September 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes The guys at Screenscape in beautiful little Charlottetown, PEI got some good marketing news this week – being named among the fastest-growing companies in Canada by Canadian Business magazine. Screenscape was ranked: #118 among the fastest growing companies in Canada #2 among all Atlantic Canadian companies #34 among all software companies The magazine has been …
NEC Europe Partners With Screenly, Canonical On Raspberry Pi-Powered Digital Signage Displays September 15, 2017 by Dave Haynes The European wing of NEC – NEC Display Solutions Europe – has done a partnership that sees certain NEC pro-grade digital signage displays ship with embedded Raspberry Pi modules, running Ubuntu Core Linux and pre-loaded with the Screenly’s CMS player software. The solution uses NEC’s P and V Series 40–55 inch large format displays and modular …
BroadSign Invests In Serious Security Audit And Sign-Off September 13, 2017 by Dave Haynes Montreal-based CMS software shop BroadSign has announced its cloud-based platform has been run through and certified for a tough set of security and privacy standards – noting it is the first in the digital signage DOOH industry to do so. The company, in a press release, says it has successfully completed the Service Organization Control …
Ayuda Rebrands Programmatic Ads Spinoff As Hivestack September 13, 2017 by Dave Haynes Montreal-based Ayuda Media Systems has re-branded and somewhat spun off its programmatic advertising module as it own company, and under a new brand – Hivestack. It’s a move to create some distinction between Ayuda’s core product — business process management software for out of home media companies — and what was Ayuda[x], which is …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Peter Fahlman, Telemetry September 13, 2017 by Dave Haynes A lot of companies run by creatives and software developers have found their way into the digital signage business on the backs of projects they delivered, but I wouldn’t really see that happening with a company that’s all about online payments. That’s exactly, though, the back story on Telemetry, a Vancouver, BC start-up that grew …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: David Douglas-Beveridge, SmartContent.TV September 6, 2017 by Dave Haynes If you spend any time clicking around the internet, you are very quickly going to bump into a website that is using a slider – a piece of browser functionality that shifts text, images and video in and out of a web page. The most heavily used slider out there comes from a German company …
