Video: Four Winds Uses Own Platform To Track, Drive Sales November 16, 2016 by Super User I’m not a big fan of the phrase – “Eat your own dog food” – because it kinda turns me off dinner. But … it’s an apt way of describing how organizations actually use the products or services they sell. This is a video I stumbled on from Denver’s Four Winds Interactive – posted a few …
Make Life Easier for IT And Facilities Teams With Enterprise Digital Signage November 14, 2016 by Stu Armstrong Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix Different teams need different things, and digital signage allows you not only to tailor content to specific audiences, but also the way you pull in and manage that information. Your IT staff needs to integrate lots of different systems, while your facilities managers are trying to anticipate and meet visitor …
BroadSign To Drive 3,500-Screen Ad Network For French Hypermarket Group November 2, 2016 by Super User A lot of the deals that get announced in press releases by software vendors aren’t big enough to get more than a shrug from people outside those companies, so I don’t tend to bother writing them up. But there are ones, here and there, that are big enough and sufficiently different to warrant some attention. Montreal-based …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Mark McDermott, ScreenCloud November 2, 2016 by Super User This week we’re talking content management software with Mark McDermott, the CEO and one of the co-founders of ScreenCloud, which offers a platform that looks, feels and works like much of what we do online with other subscription software tools. That’s because ScreenCloud grew out of Codegent, a software solutions company that was, and is, in …
Coates Formally Launches VR Tool To Help Sell QSR Digital Signage Solutions October 28, 2016 by Super User The Aussie firm Coates Group has formally started marketing its in-house virtual reality capabilities as a way to understand how digital signage and interactive screens could be integrated into the stores of its target vertical – fast food restaurants. The company has opened up a lab and showroom in its new Chicago offices, and is …
Brazil’s OOZO TV Mashes Up Social Media And Raspberry Pi For Digital Signage Solution October 25, 2016 by Super User Sao Paulo, Brazil-based start-up OOZO TV is marketing a digital signage solution built around social media and ultra low-cost Raspberry Pi 3-driven media players. The company is touting what it calls a hyperlocal custom content solution that draws much of its content from real-time feeds from social media networks like Instagram. There are three pricing plans – from …
Meeting Room Signs Growth Is Kinda Crazy October 25, 2016 by Super User About 18 months ago I put up a post about the handful of options I could find out there for putting little digital displays outside meeting room and conference room drawers. Traffic just kept building on that one post, and I ultimately decided last fall to develop a dedicated micro-site and directory that listed all the various options …
France’s Telelogos Puts CMS App On Philips’ Android Smart Displays October 20, 2016 by Super User The French digital signage CMS firm Telelogos has joined the relatively small but building list of companies that have developed solutions for Philips’ new D-Line series of system on chip smart displays, which run on Android. The Media4Display software integration with the all-in-one display series is done using an app, available from Telelogos or …
SoftwareCo RMG Adds LED Display Side To Business October 19, 2016 by Super User There are lots of digital signage display companies with software solutions, but it’s pretty rare to read about a signage CMS company touting a display solution. That, however, is what RMG Networks has announced. The Dallas-based company – kinda the v2 of the old Symon Communications, after some twists and turns from an acquisition – has announced RMG …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Chris Lydle, Google October 19, 2016 by Super User This week I am speaking with Chris Lydle, who is the global lead for digital signage and kiosk activity at Google. We had a lengthy, very open chat about the what the technology giant is doing in the relatively small and narrowly defined digital signage market, how its technology fits in, and where things are going. He …
