Signamic Hopes Mini Billboards In B2B Windows Pull Customers Inside January 12, 2026 by Dave Haynes It is readily apparent, and backed by lotsa research, that consumers shape a lot of their spending decisions on what their peers say, and a small Toronto tech company hopes that dynamic works for a new service it calls Signamic. The simple description is a small-ish LED rectangle in street-level windows that tells passersby how …
Appspace Brings Enterprise-Grade CMS to Amazon’s Affordable Signage Stick January 7, 2026 by Antonia Hamberger More than a year ago, Amazon introduced the Signage Stick as a low-cost alternative to traditional digital signage media players. How widely the compact device has been adopted by end users so far remains largely unknown. Amazon’s success in attracting software partners, however, is much clearer: around 30 CMS platforms are now available for the …
L Squared’s 2025/26 Review: Gregg Forsberg on Why Digital Signage Became Operational Infrastructure December 22, 2025 by John Berkovich As digital signage continues to evolve from a marketing channel into a core operational tool, 2025 marked a clear inflection point for how organizations think about real-time communication at scale. L Squared COO and co-founder Gregg Forsberg reflects on a year defined by execution over experimentation, growing expectations around reliability and automation, and a broader …
Digital Signage Doesn’t Need Yet More Software Options, But They Keep Coming Anyway December 1, 2025 by Dave Haynes It is endlessly fascinating how more and more digital signage CMS software companies keep popping up in online directories, discussion forums and social media posts. Guaranteed if you’d ask me 15 years ago if the industry needed more software solutions, I’d have said “No, there’s already a glut.” But they’ve kept coming – my running …
RIP BSOD: New Windows Digital Signage Mode Fades Blue Screens Of Death To Black November 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes Anyone who’s made a career in the digital signage industry groans when she or he sees a screen – especially a BIG and public screen – sporting the infamous Blue Screen of Death. Or a Windows pop-up error message floating on top of playlisted content. That’s kinda sorta going away because of an update from …
VXT-Cielovision Partnership Lands Early Franchise Client in the U.S. November 7, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Samsung has been heavily investing in its digital signage software platform, VXT, over the past few years. Unlike its older CMS, Magicinfo, VXT is a premium product rather than a free add-on that comes with Samsung screens. Early on, its positioning was a bit fuzzy – is it a CMS, a remote device management tool, …
Perion Drops Its Own DooH Player – Possibly Killing the Third-Party CMS November 6, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger DooH providers using Perion to operate their networks and sell ad space may soon no longer need a separate CMS to play out campaigns. The Israeli ad tech company is launching its own software for managing and playing digital out-of-home campaigns: the Perion DOOH Player. This move expands Perion’s platform into a complete, end-to-end solution …
Hackers Target LA Metro’s E-Paper Bus Stop Displays November 5, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger E-paper screens can also be vulnerable to cyberattacks – a fact demonstrated recently in downtown Los Angeles. According to local news outlet KTLA, several LA Metro bus stop displays temporarily showed a bomb warning message instead of displaying waiting times for buses. The altered message read: “Emergency Warning. Leave immediately. Risk of Suicide Bomb.” A …
Novisign Launches “DooH for Everyone” through Perion Integration November 3, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger The dual use of digital signage as an advertising medium is steadily gaining momentum – this is exactly what the concept of “commerce media” is all about. For anyone setting up a new network, whether a gym or a supermarket, advertising is hard to ignore. After all, digital signage infrastructure isn’t cheap, and the goal …
Spectrio Adds Programmatic DooH Monetization Through Screenverse Integration October 15, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Spectrio has teamed up with programmatic DooH platform Screenverse, giving customers a way to connect their digital signage networks to automated ad sales and create new opportunities to generate revenue from their screens. With this integration, companies can set aside portions of their screen time for advertisers, enabling them to turn unused airtime into income. …
