Ruth Fornell, Poppulo-CEO: “The Best Year in Recent History” June 10, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Poppulo serves half of the Fortune 100 companies, making it the leading digital signage provider in the enterprise segment. Today’s brand was formed five years ago through the merger of digital signage solution provider Four Winds Interactive with Poppulo, an employee communications platform. In April, invidis’s Florian Rotberg spoke with CEO Ruth Fornell about its …
Poppulo Doubles Down on AI With Agents and Web Composer June 10, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Following Korbyt’s launch of a new AI agent suite, Poppulo has made a simlilar announcement. The Denver-based CMS company has developed what it calls “Analyze Agent,” which is dubbed as a foundational model for a future set of task-driven agents. Once launched, these agents will then relieve users of a lot of the manual work …
Korbyt Introduces AI Agents to Automate Content Creation and Delivery June 4, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger At DSS Europe in Munich a couple of weeks ago, one of the most talked-about topics was how digital signage software vendors can harness the power of AI. Many conversations centered on the potential for CMS providers to train AI models with their own data to create tailored, signage-specific tools – especially autonomous AI agents …
Tabletop Tent Cards Go Digital With Viewneo’s Soon-To-Launch Dinio E-Paper Solution May 8, 2025 by Dave Haynes The German digital signage solutions firm viewneo has started previewing an interesting product that is a contemporary spin on the idea of using small form factor displays in in dining establishments as dynamic table tent cards – but with color e-paper instead of energy-hungry LCDs. CEO Manfred Ludtke tells me members of his Dusseldorf-based team …
OK Tribal Casino Uses Digital Signage To Boost Guest Engagement And Revenues May 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma used digital signage across its tribal casino portfolio in that state, across 23 locations, all managed for several years now using Poppulo’s CMS software. The software company has an online case study up on its site that digs into what was done, where and why at the tribe’s flagship Durant …
Dynamic Content Without Coding: Digichief Launches Mercury Platform May 1, 2025 by Dave Haynes Lexington, KY-based Digichief has broadened its digital signage content solutions portfolio with what it calls the Digichief Mercury Content Platform, an in-house tool that uses flexible browser technologies like HTML5 to allow solutions providers and end-users to highly customize their automated on-screen content. This intuitive platform, says Digichief, allows users to choose from a library …
Using MagicINFO Server? A Vulnerability With Maximum Severity Discovered (And Patched) May 1, 2025 by Dave Haynes I only reluctantly wade into cybersecurity stuff, because much of it is way the hell over my empty head. But this seems like something important to at least relay to network operators and integrators who use Samsung’s mostly legacy MagicINFO CMS software. As you likely know, Samsung has made MagicINFO available for many years, but …
Korbyt Joins Growing List Of CMS Solutions Supporting Amazon’s $100 Signage Stick April 30, 2025 by Dave Haynes Amazon has signed on another CMS software firm that has developed support for the $100 Amazon Signage HDMI stick, with Dallas, TX-based Korbyt bringing the total to 22 companies. While some of the early adopters were small companies that might raise questions like “Sorry, who???”, the online retailing giant has also signed up some pretty …
That Canadian QSR’s Menu Displays Were Compromised, Taken Over, Using Phishing April 17, 2025 by Dave Haynes I’ve not seen anything formally from the operator or its suppliers about that system-wide hack last week of digital menu displays at a Canadian QSR chain, but Sixteen:Nine’s German language content partner invidis got some in-bound clarity about what happened. About this time last week the order counter and drive-thru displays at Mary Brown’s Chicken …
NowSignage Powering Retail Media Network Across UK-based Superdrug Chain April 10, 2025 by Dave Haynes UK-based CMS provider NowSignage and its partners have the green light now to talk about how an aggregated solution including software will help drive some 500 screens in a retail media network to be rolled out across Superdrug stores up and down that collection of countries. CEO Nick Johnson and I chatted at ISE about …
