AV-Driven Portland Event Space Makes Pair Of Mosaic Video Walls Key Elements Of Venue Experience April 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes Clusters of flat panel displays that are not just set in rectangles or tiled rows are something that’s been seen through the years at a lot of trade show booths and in marketing materials, but there hasn’t been much evidence of real-world deployments. They’re out there, but you couldn’t argue that they’re commonplace. That noted, …
Acquire Digital Partnership Adds Real-Time Customer Ratings To Airport Wayfinding And Directory Displays April 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes Wayfinding and directory displays at big footprint airports have long been there to help travelers find their way to gates and to services like shops and restaurants, but a new technology partnership has added a new information means to boost both experience and non-airline revenues: real-time customer ratings. UK-based CMS software firm Acquire Digital has …
Spectrio’s New Private Label TV Allows Venue Operators To Avoid Cable TV Viewing Conflicts In Common Areas April 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes Digital signage software and experiential solutions firm Spectrio has developed a new service that lets operators curate and control what’s on the screens in common areas – like customer waiting rooms and staff break lounges. Called Private Label TV (PLTV), the service allows businesses like car dealerships to better control what’s airing on the TVs …
Wallboard Software Integration Makes Color E-Paper Displays A Little Bit More Like Regular Digital Signage Screens March 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes E-paper displays operate largely on the fringes of digital signage activity because what they can do and how they are managed are both limited, but the US-Hungarian CMS software company Wallboard has completed development work that pushes the possibilities of the new-ish Philips color e-paper displays being marketed by PPDS. The Wallboard integration of …
Redeveloping JFK T4 Adds Big Range Of Useful Screens To Guide, Inform Passengers March 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes The redeveloping Terminal 4 at New York’s JFK Airport has switched on some of the new digital display components designed to improve passenger experiences, and the focus appears to be heavily, and happily, on helping travellers navigate the process and place. There are a pair of 285-foot continuous LED video walls, and another 120-foot wall, …
CRI Posts Record Revenue, Gross Profits; $14.5M Sales In Q4 March 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes I don’t like putting too much of a focus on one company – in good times or bad – but Creative Realities is one of just a small handful of digital signage companies that are public, and therefore have to open their so-called kimono and show the rest of the industry what’s going on. And …
Networking Giant Ubiquiti Has Digital Signage As An Add-On Solution March 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes We’ve seen, though the years, all kinds of companies of varying sizes and product focuses find their way into digital signage – in part because it is relatively easy to bolt on a simple media play-out software application to broader solutions and platforms. A good example of that is the video collaboration business, with companies …
Spanish Retailer Deploys Customer-Facing Screens Across Some 100 Stores, Five Countries March 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Spanish retail chain Tea Shop, which sells guess what, has deployed a network of screens across roughly 100 stores in its home country, as well as Portugal, Italy, Brazil and Argentina. The company sells more than 140 varieties of bulk tea in its stores, and was looking for ways to improve customer experiences and …
22Miles Starts Marketing AI Assistant To Help Attendees Find Their Way Around Big Trade Shows March 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based digital signage software and interactive digital solutions firm 22Miles has started marketing what it calls a Tradeshow AI Assistant, a tool for interactive screens and smartphones that uses a chat bot and wayfinding to help attendees find their way around big footprint events. Called the “first of its kind,” the assistant uses a 22Miles-built …
Hisense Latest Display Maker To Develop, Market Own Commercial Digital Signage CMS March 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes China’s Hisense is the latest flat panel display manufacturer to develop and start marketing its own digital signage software platform, announcing a CMS and remote device management solution called VisionInfo. The software is described by Hisense as cloud-based, flexible, cost-effective, and very scalable. VisionInfo includes a comprehensive CMS solution and advanced remote display management features. …
