Swiss Railways Using Adobe’s Screens CMS To Drive Passenger Information Displays At Stations August 16, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Swiss rail system is known everywhere for its punctuality and attention to details, so let’s assume railway operator SBB was anything but slap-dash in the sourcing and selection process for software to run its passenger communications screens. The railway company went with Adobe Screens, the digital signage sub-product of Adobe Experience Manager to drive …
By Adding Back Of House Digital Signage For Workers, “Everything Improved” – QSR Operator August 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes Chicago-based UPshow has a good little sponsored content piece on the QSR magazine site that gets into the impacts of back-of-house staff messaging in a food services environment – noting how better communication led to boosts in performance metrics. The CEO of a multi-brand franchise operator realized on store site visits that critical messaging – …
Korbyt Puts Its Anywhere Software Inside Workplace Video Giant Zoom’s Ecosystem August 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes Dallas-based CMS firm Korbyt has joined the list of digital signage software providers who’ve integrated with popular video collaboration platforms, putting its Korbyt Anywhere app on the Zoom App Marketplace. Korbyt users, says the company, now have the ability to easily distribute content via the Zoom workflow, greatly expanding the reach of Korbyt Anywhere to …
Wireless Screen Sharing, Digital Signage Solution Deployed At 500+ WeWork Locations August 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes Workplace has proven to be one of the most active and opportune vertical markets to chase for pure-play digital signage solutions and software firms, but they are confronted by the interesting challenge of seeing competing solutions from companies that mostly operate outside the digital signage industry. In most cases, they’re companies that have other technology …
ScreenCloud Drives On-Stage Messaging At Lollapalooza August 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes Digital signage tech shows up in all kinds of unexpected places, and the stage at an iconic music festival certainly qualifies as unexpected. Mark McDermott, the CEO/Founder of UK-based ScreenCloud, put up a post showing his company’s software being used to drive giant rental LED video walls flanking and backing the performance stage at Lollapalooza …
JD Sports Pairs AR Virtual Try-On Solution With Big Video Wall In Two US Stores August 4, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is an AR mirror set-up used in a couple of U.S. locations (New York Times Square and Chicago State Street) for the retailer JD Sports, which sells guess what. Virtual try-on mirrors have been around for ages, and have improved by leaps and bounds in terms of the way they work and look. This …
Sweden’s Castmill Open Sources Its CMS Software; Lays Out New Business Model July 31, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Swedish digital signage CMS software firm Castmill has taken the interesting step of open sourcing its solution, and then detailing how it makes money from something that’s been opened up as free to use by developers. “Castmill was launched over a decade ago, a time span that has seen significant shifts in the landscape …
Chick-fil-A Building New Store With Four Drive-Thru Lanes And Walk-Up Location With No Digital Menu Displays July 31, 2023 by Dave Haynes Drive-thru has been a huge part of the business for many to most QSR operators in North America, and pandemic-driven restrictions made that method of taking and fulfilling fast food orders essential – leading to something of a boom in demand for outdoor-rated pre-sell and menu displays, as well as the underlying technology. Now we’re …
The 2023 Digital Signage Yearbook Now Available As A Free Download July 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes The 2023 version of the annual invidis digital signage yearbook is now available as a free download. The publication – done both as an oversized print magazine and as a PDF – has some 200 pages of stories, studies, analyses and market data, primarily about the European market. For the past two years, Sixteen:Nine has …
Loop Media Partners With AI Firm On Ad And Content-Filtering “Brand Safety Layer” July 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes The DOOH media firm Loop Media – which puts free media players into environments like restaurants and bars – has started working with an AI firm that specializes in speech recognition to filter advertising and keep competitive or objectionable ad spots off screens. LA-based Loop says its AI-powered “Brand Safety Layer” is being offered to …
