Rise Vision Partners With Avocor To Add Digital Signage Messaging To Collaboration Displays June 6, 2023 by Dave Haynes The collaboration displays company Avocor has done a partnership that sees Rise Vision’s CMS software loaded on the Oregon company’s meetings-focused screens, allowing them to double up as corporate communications and emergency messaging units. The partnership is a result of a broader partnership between Avocor and Taiwanese display manufacturer AUO Display Plus, which acquired Rise …
Cemetery Down Under Using Digital Wayfinding Totems To Enable Seamless, Lowered-Stress Visits June 6, 2023 by Dave Haynes A cemetery in Western Australia has deployed three outdoor-rated digital display totems to help visitors find their way around the grounds and locate the burial sites of loved ones. Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth commissioned Kingman Signs last year to develop a solution intended to provide a seamless and stress-free navigation experience. A first-of-its-kind project for …
Intuiface Evolves Software To Allow Its Interactive Experiences To Run On Third-Party CMS Platforms June 5, 2023 by Dave Haynes The French software firm Intuiface has announced new advances with its platform that enable more powerful interactive solutions that can work within third-party digital signage content management systems. Starting today, says the company in PR, interactive digital experiences created using Intuiface can run within five popular digital signage frameworks: BrightSign BrightAuthor and BrightAuthor:connected, Navori, Appspace, …
AdTech Firm Vistar Media Launches Verification Program To Ensure Quality Of Display, Audience And Environment June 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes The DOOH-focused programmatic firm Vistar Media has launched a new program called Vistar Verify that’s intended to characterize the quality of the place-based media positions it puts on offer to brand advertisers. A verification process benchmarks all of NY-based Vistar’s DOOH inventory against a set of criteria, with the intent of ensuring they meet expectations. …
Broadsign Turns 20; Adds Access To More DOOH Screens Via Flow City Integration June 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes Happy birthday to the folks at Montreal-based Broadsign, which has now been in business for 20 years. We tend to think of the digital signage business and ecosystem to still be quite young, but there are companies like Broadsign that have now been at it for two decades, and others like Scala, Omnivex, Rise Vision …
Update A Digital Sign, By Texting It June 2, 2023 by Dave Haynes Orlando-based software and services provider Xpodigital has developed an interesting, and patented, capability for quickly revising announcements and calls to action on networked screens around a venue, using text messaging. The company, which has been around forever and mainly focused on the business events sector, has developed what it calls Text-to-Screen technology. To change out …
Both Growth And Uncertainty in EU Digital Signage Market: ZetaDisplay May 31, 2023 by Dave Haynes Getting a good read on what’s happening with digital signage businesses isn’t always easy because most of the solutions providers are private firms, so regulator-required reports from public companies tend to be intriguing, almost by default. The Swedish firm ZetaDisplay has released its Q1 2023 financials, which suggest both growth and uncertainty in the European …
KY Start-up Transmission Builds Out Industrial Workplace Communications Solution Via Pair Of Acquisitions May 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes A start-up called Transmission has announced a pair of acquisitions that are foundational components of an on-premise communications solution aimed at industrial workplaces. Transmission has acquired LobbyFox, a visitor management software company and Industrial Communications, the digital signage software division of Eyeconic.TV. The deal terms and amounts were not disclosed. The acquisition includes the entire …
Creative Realities Fending Off Takeover Bids From Key Private Equity Investor May 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes The digital signage solutions provider Creative Realities is in the midst of a takeover bid from a main investor, with a board committee rejecting at least a couple of share buyout proposals – the most recent of those coming late last week. The company’s suitor is Pegasus Capital Advisors, which owns the entity – Slipstream Communications …
Mvix Launches AI Toolset That Filters Content Scheduled For Screens May 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes There has been a lot of discussion in recent months about how artificial intelligence tools could be used to rapidly, and at little cost, generate visual content for screens, but now a digital signage CMS provider is marketing an AI toolset that filters and moderates visuals before they get to screens. The DC-area software firm …
