Ayuda Expands Digital OOH Platform To Mobile Via New Subsidiary, Ayuda[x] September 14, 2016 by Super User The Montreal out of home ad software firm Ayuda Systems has made what it calls a pivot by spinning off a wholly-owned subsidiary called AYUDA[x] that uses geospatial data to hyper-target and deliver ads to Digital OOH screens AND smartphones. “Digital marketers are increasingly buying location-based mobile media, and we are intentionally melding DOOH and mobile into …
Is Running Live TV Legal On Your Digital Signage Network? September 13, 2016 by Super User For as long as the term digital signage has been out there, end-users have been asking suppliers about the ability to insert live TV in a zone on the screen. And for just as long, there have been many questions and few solid answers as to whether it was entirely legal. I’m not sure we’re any …
BrightSign Does Total Player And Product Refresh September 7, 2016 by Super User BrightSign has announced a complete overhaul of its digital signage player portfolio, and also unveiled a nice new feature that takes the time and hassle out of prepping and activating big lots of players. The Silicon Valley company’s distinct purple boxes (they’re first cousins of Roku set-top boxes) have been completely redesigned, and the supporting software has also had …
Why And How To Engage The Bosses With Digital Signage September 2, 2016 by Stu Armstrong Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix You’ve hired some of the best and brightest people around to help you run your company. Use your corporate digital signage solution to support, encourage and inspire them as they steer your organization to success. Seven Traits to Thrive Harvard Business Review identified seven traits that companies most need in …
Samsung’s New Smart Signs To Start Shipping With Tizen OS; Signagelive Says Good To Go September 1, 2016 by Super User Samsung is moving its new version of its Smart Signage platform for commercial displays over to its own operating system Tizen, with Tizen OS-powered displays commercially available to partners, resellers and end-users by the middle of this month. That means if you want to use the new version 4.0 release of SSP displays with a CMS, …
LG Adds Kiwi Firm To List Of Signage Firms Supporting Its Smart WebOS Displays September 1, 2016 by Super User Via ComputerWorld NZ The Auckland, NZ-based firm Labyrinth Solutions has developed a version of its Contrego digital signage CMS to run on LG’s WebOS-driven commercial digital signage panels. Labyrinth says the new System on Chip (SoC) media player, running Contegro, will do all the regular stuff, but will also do advanced digital signage functions like touch. “We are currently working …
STRATACACHE Buys Monster Warehouse Space In Suburban Dayton August 31, 2016 by Super User Were there any question Chris Riegel is serious about the growth he expects at STRATACACHE in the next two or three years, consider this: the software and services company now owns a 380,000 square foot distribution facility on 50 acres in suburban Dayton. And the address will be One Stratacache Way. The company will be moving …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jim Nista, Insteo August 31, 2016 by Super User Jim Nista and I have had lotsa long, interesting talks over trade show cocktails in Las Vegas or Orlando about the state of the industry and what needs to happen, particularly as it relates to content. Unfortunately … or perhaps fortunately, when I really think about it (hic) … they were not recorded. But the …
Digital Signage Goes To Another Kitchen August 23, 2016 by Super User Here’s a different take on the idea of putting digital signage in private homes. Cassidy Smirnow is Senior VP of Operations at Denver’s Four Winds Interactive, and as a result, knows here way around the platform and the idea of building and publishing a layout to a display. For the last couple of years she has …
The Table Stakes of Digital Signage August 23, 2016 by Super User “Table stakes” is an appropriated term from the card table, used in the business world not for poker bet limits, but on what a company needs to have to really be competitive. I was asked the other day what the so-called table stakes now in digital signage – those “things” a company must have to be taken seriously as a software vendor or …
