E-Paper Display Totem Firm Soofa Says US Installed Base Tripled In 2021 March 21, 2022 by Super User Cambridge, MA-based Soofa seems to getting some traction with its distinct and somewhat more genuine take on smart city digital displays – with 41 cities across 15 U.S. states now using the solar-powered, large format e-paper totems. The company says its U.S. footprint tripled in 2021. “We’ve had rapid growth over the past year as …
Is Amazon Getting Into Digital Signage And DOOH? Looks Like It. March 18, 2022 by Super User The online publication Modern Retail, which chronicles guess what, has an interesting, mildly speculative piece up that explores the idea of online retailing behemoth Amazon selling ads on the screens it is building into its tech-forward physical retail stores. Last month, Business Insider reported that Amazon was planning on selling in-store digital advertising inventory to sell …
Mvix Joins Growing List Of CMS Software Firms Running On Sony’s Android TV Pro Displays March 18, 2022 by Super User The digital signage CMS software and solutions firm Mvix has joined a growing list of companies creating variants of their platform to run on Sony’s commercial smart displays. The Sony platform for its Bravia series of pro displays runs on Android TV, which is similar to the Android operating system now broadly used in digital …
Hey DOOH And Digital Sign Network Operators, Allocate Two Minutes Tomorrow To Support Ukraine! March 17, 2022 by Super User Digital OOH industry veteran Nick Coston is trying to organize a global campaign that would see, potentially, millions of screens turned over for two minutes tomorrow to communicate support for Ukraine. Writing in the online publication OOH Today, Coston suggests there are some 65 million connected ad displays out there, around the world. What if, …
London Underground Projection Markets Windows Errors March 16, 2022 by Super User As relayed by a reader: A reminder for screen network operators – if reminding is needed – that shit happens. This is on the London Underground, on a platform at Green Park station. The media company with the ad concession for the subway platforms has in its portfolio billboard-sized projections that go across the track …
First Arriving Breaks Off Digital Signage Services As Standalone Business March 15, 2022 by Super User The Virginia digital signage company focused on solutions for first responders – like police and fire departments – has taken the interesting step of spinning out its SaaS-based services as a standalone business. First Arriving IO will focus on rapidly scaling its existing dashboard and data infrastructure services while the parent company, First Arriving LLC, …
UK Custom Display Firm Literally An Anomaly For Market Focus March 11, 2022 by Super User One of my takeaways from the last pro AV trade show I was at – a couple of years ago now – was how there were one hell of a lot of companies selling indoor and outdoor display totems, all seemingly chasing the limited markets of DOOH advertising and campus and mall directories. A UK …
Portugal’s Moviik Wants More Digital Signage Firms Rolling In Its Queueing Software March 9, 2022 by Super User I have clear memories of talking to queue management hardware and software companies years ago at trade shows, who looked at me then like I was wearing a cocktail dress and heels when I suggested there was an interesting tie-up to be done with digital signage applications. They just didn’t see the relationship between the …
Uniguest Brings On CIO With Deep Travel Tech Experience To Drive Product And M&A Strategies March 8, 2022 by Super User If a digital signage solutions company decides to go hard at a well-defined vertical market, it really helps to have people on board who know that industry and the technologies that underpin it. So I’m impressed by a new executive hire announced by Nashville-based solutions provider Uniguest, which has long made the hotel sector a …
When I’ve Written How Videos Are Important In Digital Signage Marketing, I Didn’t Mean This … March 7, 2022 by Super User One of the awesome things about working remotely, and particularly now as an independent contractor, is I don’t think I’ll find myself at a company meeting being compelled to go outside and dance in a music video. All power to the extroverts at every company who’d be all over this, but I would be finding …
