Digital Signage Goes To Another Kitchen August 23, 2016 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes “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 …
Sweden’s ZetaDisplay Buys Up Norwegian Competitor ProntoTV August 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Swedish digital signage firm ZetaDisplay announced today it has completed a deal to acquire ProntoTV AS, which is touted as the largest digital signage supplier in neighbouring Norway. The company paid NOK 75 million (about$9.10 million USD) on a “debt-free basis” plus an earnings-based supplemental purchase price in a maximum amount of NOK 25 million, which …
Size Matters In Digital Signage August 18, 2016 by Jeff Doud Guest Post: Stuart Armstrong, ComQi To get the most out digital signage in retail settings, keep two key words in mind: Size Matters. That doesn’t mean bigger is better. What matters is using screen sizes that suit the setting, dynamics and purpose. The display side of the digital signage business understandably focuses on screens that …
EventBoard Raises $13.5 M To Build Up Digital Meeting Room Sign Business August 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes I’ve written often about the seemingly pedestrian but dead-perfect application of digital meeting room signs, and how the marketplace seems to be all over the things. Exhibit A – Sixteen:Nine’s companion site – MeetingRoomSigns.biz – now has more than 40 products listed, which is at least 5X of a year ago. The site generates 1,000s …
6 Benefits Of Cloud-Based Digital Signage August 17, 2016 by Sean Levy Guest Post: Irfan Khan, Skykit When a company goes down the path of planning, building and launching a digital signage solution, the people behind it are going to hit a big fork in the road, making them decide what kind of software platform to use: on-premise or cloud-based. For some organizations, often very large ones, …
Four Winds Previews Next Month’s Forward Conference In Denver August 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes Four Winds Interactive is holding what will be its second, now annual educational conference next month in Denver, and has released the agenda and overall plans for the Sept. 21-23 event. I went last year and thought, for a first stab at it, the event was quite good and useful both in terms of the …
STRATACACHE: CEO Riegel Says Scala Deal Not The Last August 16, 2016 by Dave Haynes Chris Riegel, the founder, sole owner and CEO of STRATACACHE, kindly took a few minutes Monday to call and brief me on the deal that saw his company acquire controlling interest in software rival Scala. Riegel says his contact with Scala on a potential deal traces back about three years, and was on and off. …
STRATACACHE Buys Majority Control of CMS Software Rival Scala August 15, 2016 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE has bought its way into “super-majority” control of digital signage CMS software rival Scala, in a deal being announced today. The deal gets STRATACACHE CEO and sole owner Chris Riegel access to a global channel partner program and reseller network, which Philly-based Scala had built up in the last 15-20 years. The deal is not …
WordPress Gets A Digital Signage Plug-in August 12, 2016 by Dave Haynes A small German company has launched a WordPress plug-in that enables the hugely popular blog and website content management system to be used as a digital signage CMS. Ondamedia GmbH says its plugin, called Digitalsignagepress, makes developing and managing small signage networks easy and capable of running off any HTML5-based device, like system on chip smart …
