Visionect Adds Smart Magnets With Location Tags For Its ePaper-based Joan System September 16, 2021 by Super User The Slovenian company Visionect has announced a new version, with major tweaks, of its e-paper meeting room management system, known as Joan. The most interesting advance is a system that uses “smart magnets” that allow the screens to be relocated without any reconfiguration work. “Joan’s Smart Magnets attach to any service and act as location …
Screenfeed Adds Content Feed Built On Curated User-Gen Viral Videos September 14, 2021 by Super User User-generated videos have been curated and used by some digital OOH networks – notably in bars and restaurants – to build out their programming, but now one of the main subscription content services – Screenfeed – has developed its own custom service. Minneapolis-based Screenfeed has developed what it calls Bright Spots that is built around …
Mvix, BrightSign Pair On Worry-Free Signature Care Program For Large Digital Signage Networks September 14, 2021 by Super User The DC-area digital signage software firm Mvix has partnered with BrightSign on a new program designed to take any hardware worries off the table in planning large, long-term networks. The new Signature Care program provides a lot of hand-holding through deployment, ongoing priority support, and built-in hardware refreshes after three years. Targeted at enterprise-scale deployments, …
Samsung Partners With Israeli Start-up Niio On Subscription Art For B2B Digital Displays September 13, 2021 by Super User Samsung has partnered with a Tel Aviv startup called Niio to address one of the evergreen issues confronting many end-users who make investments in digital signage displays – feeding the content beast. In the case of Niio, it’s premium, curated digital artwork that end-users would subscribe to in the pretty the much way as they …
Amazon Starts Marketing Its Own Branded Line Of “Smart TVs” With Fire TV Built-In September 10, 2021 by Super User Acknowledging the many, oft-discussed reasons why people putting in digital signage networks DON”T want to use TVs and DO want to use commercial displays, a new product announcement from Amazon is nonetheless interesting because the online retailing Godzilla has introduced a line of TVs that have the media player built-in. So you can buy a …
Broadsign Broadens Audience Measurement Toolkit, Support Via Computer Vision Integration With Sightcorp September 9, 2021 by Super User Montreal-based CMS software firm Broadsign and the Dutch computer vision firm Sightcorp have completed an integration that sees anonymous facial analysis solution tied in with Broadsign’s Control CMS and Reach supply-side-platform (SSP). Via the latest integrations, says PR, DOOH media owners can easily provide media buyers with more meaningful audience insights and data visualizations based …
Raydiant, Barvanna Partner On Streamed Digital Signage And DOOH Content September 8, 2021 by Super User The Silicon Valley-area digital signage CMS startup Raydiant has announced a content partnership with another start-up called Barvanna, making streamed sports, entertainment, and trivia content available for businesses, bars, restaurants, hotels, clubs, and public spaces. The Barvanna content will be available as an add-on app with Raydiant’s platform. “As a customer experience platform provider, we’ve …
Navori Labs Acquires Software Side of French Tech Firm Innes September 7, 2021 by Super User The Swiss CMS software firm Navori Labs has acquired the software business and goodwill of a French firm, Innes, that has been selling a similar software solution focused on business and government-based workplace communications. Innes, which has been around since 2005, has almost 30,000 screens using its PlugnCast software, mainly in France and Germany. Navori …
One World Trade Center Adds Giant LED Welcome Wall, 140-Screen Video Mosaic September 2, 2021 by Super User This is a new exhibit that welcomes visitors to the observatory attraction at the top of One World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, on the site of the twin towers brought down almost 20 years ago on 9/11. Developed and delivered by Montreal creative and tech shop Float4, there is a set of video displays …
Sept. 23 Online Roundtable Plans Deep Dive On Real-Time Data In Digital Signage September 2, 2021 by Super User If a CMS software company or solutions provider is serious about chasing business beyond the SMB market, the chosen platform better support real-time data integration or they’re really not in the game. When the content engine is driven by what the data is saying, at that moment, what’s on the screen is relevant. At the …