Signagelive Adds US Patent To UK Version For What It Terms Real-Time Events June 5, 2024 by Super User UK-based CMS software firm Signagelive has been granted patents in the UK and now the US for the system, apparatus and method for sending commands and controlling networked devices. The technical name for the patents is system, apparatus and method for controlling networked devices and, in practical terms, it might mean if a competing CMS …
STRATACACHE Announces 2nd Acquisition In 24 Hours – Toronto’s Dot2Dot Communications June 4, 2024 by Super User It is apparently M&A Day around STRATACACHE HQ, with news of a second company added to the larger business family – the small Toronto-area solutions provider Dot2Dot Communications. This is on the heels of STRATACACHE announcing its acquisition of the German services provider MasterPoint. The connective tissue with this new deal is quite strong and …
SignageOS Makes Power Consumption Calculator Web Tool Available To Model Energy Costs For Screen Networks June 4, 2024 by Super User The Czech/US firm SignageOS has launched a nice little spin-out website that enables businesses to model the amount of commercial power being consumed by the displays on digital signage or digital out of home ad networks. The Power Consumption Calculator website is essentially a web form that takes a series of inputs and produces an …
TouchSource Broadens Digital Footprint By Acquiring Healthcare Business Of True Sync Media June 4, 2024 by Super User Denver-based TouchSource, which does digital signage and wayfinding solutions focused on healthcare environments, has done a deal to acquire TrueSync Health, the healthcare business division of True Sync Media, which is also based in Denver. The TrueSync Health deal gives TouchSource a footprint of 100s of screens in patient waiting rooms across different healthcare system, …
Dise – InfoComm 2024 Digital Signage Industry Mixer Sponsor Profiles May 28, 2024 by Super User InfoComm is in just a couple of weeks in Las Vegas, and Sixteen:Nine has partnered with Experience United Social Club to run what is a very sold-out networking event. This one is at a darts-themed bar called Flight Club, in the Palazzo complex. There will will be a little discussion about what was seen on …
Video: Glitchy Creative Draws Shopper Eyes To This Digital End-Cap Fixture May 27, 2024 by Super User This is an interesting digital end-cap – or what the vendor calls e-shelf – going into an apparel retailer in Israel. I like it because it effectively uses LCD ribbon strips as well as a larger “bar-type” stretched LCD on the top. The end-cap is intended to do a lift and learn thing that triggers …
How To Make In-Store Retail Media Responsive To Consumer Moments May 22, 2024 by Ron Levac Guest Post: Ron Levac, Spectrio The core idea of digital signage in retail is putting screens where shoppers go, and hoping the messages on them get noticed and influence purchasing decisions. But what if you could tune the messages to that moment when consumers notice, and respond to what they do? A new generation of …
Retail Media Networks Are About A Lot More Than Just Eyeballs May 21, 2024 by Super User If the digital signage industry was a highway, its roadside would be littered with the carcasses of companies that put their self-funded screens and media players in retail environments – trying and, in most cases, failing to make a viable business from selling advertising. Many years on, that operating model remains flawed, but the recent …
US-based Creative Realities Laying Groundwork To Expand Reach Into EMEA Region May 17, 2024 by Super User One of the numerous panels I am moderating next week in Munich at the invidis Digital Signage Summit includes Creative Realities CEO Rick Mills. It is a session intended to look at the state of the North American market, and help European companies understand the opportunity and challenge of cracking the busy but crowded U.S. …
Workspace Booking Platform Humly Expands Solutions To Company Parking Spaces May 16, 2024 by Super User The pandemic-triggered shift in how workspaces are designed and operated evolved the use-case for screen-based solutions around offices – adding shared desk availability to displays that pre-pandemic were more about meeting room assignments and availability. Now a Swedish company operating in that “workplace experience” space has added a new twist – visualizations that show the …
