Reflect Adds AdLogic In-House Retail Ad Planning Platform April 4, 2017 by Super User One of the slightly curious things I learned last week at DSE was Reflect – which I totally think of as a retail-centric digital signage CMS – introducing an advertising platform. My first reaction was: “Huh?” Between Ayuda and BroadSign, and a handful of others out there, that turf is well-covered. Then there are the …
Watch A Digital Menuboard That Changes Languages On Demand April 3, 2017 by Super User This digital menuboard demo from the Seoul solutions company Soundgraph caught my eye at DSE last week for a couple of reasons. First, I liked the creative design. Second, the company was showing a clever demo of on-demand switching of languages for the menu items. There were four buttons on the counter, each with a …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Burr Smith, BroadSign March 29, 2017 by Super User Burr Smith is the CEO of BroadSign, arguably the most successful CMS software company when it comes to advertising-based networks. His Montreal-based company has contracts with many of the top digital out of home ad networks in North America and Europe. Things are really good around BroadSign these days. Staff numbers are growing, a New …
Did You Know Adobe Has A Digital Signage Product? Me Neither. March 27, 2017 by Super User Did you know Adobe has a digital signage product? Me neither. But it does. Called Screens. And it has been around as a component of Adobe Experience Manager for the last couple of years. I mention this because, as ex-Scala CEO Tom Nix noted in a tweet last week, news about Coca-Cola rolling out a …
GM Mandates Digital Signage As Essential Brand Element In Dealers For 2018 March 25, 2017 by Super User General Motors is mandating digital signage as an essential brand element in Chevrolet, GMC and Buick stores in the United States, starting in 2018, according to a report this week in Automotive News. The automaker has certified Automotive Broadcasting Network of Jacksonville, Fla.; DCI-Artform, which has offices in Milwaukee and Detroit; and Southfield, Mich.-based Bluewater Technologies …
Allure Launching AutoFocus Content Automation Tech Aimed At Cinema Services March 24, 2017 by Super User The cinema-focused digital signage solutions company Allure is announcing content automation technology at CinemaCon in Las Vegas next week that makes heavy use of data sources and rules to determine what’s on digital menus and posters. Called Allure AutoFocus, the software engine uses relational algorithms that drive the CMS “with the what, when, where, why and how …
If Digital Signage Companies Were Alien Star Trek Races, Stratacache Would Be The Borg March 24, 2017 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler About a week ago, I was feeling pretty sick. Late at night, I had a very high fever, so I went to bed and ended up having one of those super-weird dreams that you only have when you get feverish. It was about Star Trek Voyager … and Ken Goldberg. …
DSE 2017 Booth Previews: Data Call Technologies March 24, 2017 by Super User DSE Booth Previews Data Call Technologies – Booth C5 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Data Call Technologies is the industry pioneer of dynamic data feeds to this industry since 2002, stays focused on providing stable data feeds. We have also created compelling “Playlist …
DSE 2017 Booth Previews: Novisign March 21, 2017 by Super User DSE BOOTH PREVIEWS NoviSign DSE Booth Number – S-2 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? NoviSign is providing the best value for money Digital Signage Software, combining powerful CMS, rich functionality, wide range of hardware and OS platform support and attractive pricing both for …
16:9 Special Report: SIGNS WITH SMARTS: Are SoC Displays The Future Of Digital Signage? March 21, 2017 by Super User The first System on Chip “smart” digital signage displays showed up at Digital Signage Expo roughly four years ago – greeted with both curiosity and skepticism. Was this something that was going to stick, or be a variation on the slot-loaded Open Pluggable display spec that was introduced a few years ago but never really …