Projects: Going From Chalkboards To Digital Saves Bar 180-Plus Labor Hours A Year April 7, 2017 by Dave Haynes A little bar and restaurant down the highway from me in Stratford, Ontario has worked out that putting in digital signage displays has saved them 182 hours in labor costs annually. Until a big reno in 2013, Bentley’s Bar, Inn & Restaurant did their daily menu specials, beer boards and martini boards all by hand …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jerome Moeri, CEO of Navori April 5, 2017 by Dave Haynes I’ve known Jerome Moeri, the CEO of Navori, for more than a decade, but we’ve never had much of a chance to have a good long chat. That changed at ISE a few weeks ago, when we slotted half an hour to talk about how the Swiss software company got started and where it is …
Reflect Adds AdLogic In-House Retail Ad Planning Platform April 4, 2017 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
