Barcelona’s Admira Gets A Visit From Nerd God Steve Wozniak March 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes For the last couple of years, I’ve spent the morning before ISE opens up in a lovely, relatively serene part of Barcelona called Gracia, visiting a digital signage solutions company called Admira and seeing what its CEO/Founder Carlos Silva Santin is up to now. He has built up a very successful company that ticks along …
Nice Story: Hometown Friends And Families Whose Investments Got Reach Media Started See Payoff In Poppulo M&A Deal March 5, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Minneapolis Star-Tribune newspaper has a nice story up going into the deal announced yesterday that saw Poppulo acquire the company REACH Media Network, going into its small town Northern Minnesota origin story. The company was founded some 20 years ago by Darren Wercinski and Marc Kline, who was bought out and now handles sales …
Poppulo Acquires REACH Media Network, Giving Parent Firm A Distinct SMB-Focused Solutions Option March 4, 2025 by Dave Haynes Were there any doubts about whether Poppulo had its attention back on the digital signage market, the company that many industry lifers will know more as Four Winds Interactive has acquired a software competitor, with REACH Media Network now part of Poppulo but continuing on as a separate entity chasing the SMB business that its …
Wallboard Releases Version 2.0 Of Its Digital Signage Management Software March 4, 2025 by Dave Haynes If I wrote about all the version releases of CMS software platforms readers would greet all that with as much as enthusiasm as a lengthy explanation of how actuarial science is applied to risk management in the insurance industry. So I tend to skip past those press releases when they drop in my email inbox. …
CMS Companies Using AI To Optimize, Not Innovate … Arguably At Their Peril February 27, 2025 by Dave Haynes Content partners invidis have an interesting post up this morning – translated from German – that reflects how digital signage CMS and solutions companies are applying AI to their businesses. In short, companies are mostly using it to optimize what they already do and offer, as opposed to innovating. The company’s most recent quarterly Digital …
Smart Navigation Firm PAM Wins Coveted Slot In Influential US Sports Tech Incubator Program February 25, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Aussie wayfinding firm PAM has pitched its way into what could be a very lucrative six-month tech incubator program run by media and sports giant Comcast NBCUniversal SportsTech. The R&D program “identifies and cultivates emerging companies from around the world to drive their growth and shape the sports industry, while creating a space for …
Captivate, Videri Partner On Sleek Display Canvases For Common Spaces In Office Towers February 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes More than 25 years ago now, I left the daily newspaper business because it was pretty clear what the Internet would do to it, and I puzzled the hell out of colleagues by saying I was going to work for a start-up that puts screens in elevators that ran news interspersed with paid advertising. At …
First Robotics-Driven Airport Restaurant Uses Nsign.tv To Drive Customer Messaging February 19, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Barcelona-based CMS software and solutions firm nsign.tv now has a flashy reference case for existing and prospective customers – a food stall at the city’s main airport that has a robot working behind the counter. The robotic-driven restaurant chain Self now has a mostly unmanned operation in Terminal 1, next to Gate B24. It …
Portugal’s Nonius Has Very Quietly Built Up A Huge Footprint In Hospitality Sector February 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes On the last day of ISE in Barcelona, I went early and walked waaaaay, waaaaay, waaaaaaay the hell back through the Fira Gran Via to Hall 8, which I think is actually on the outskirts of Valencia. It is a serious WALK from the main entry. I’d not been there yet, and I wanted to …
Signagelive Makes It 14 CMS Options For Amazon’s $100 Digital Signage Stick January 30, 2025 by Dave Haynes There are now 14 CMS software companies integrated and ready to work with Amazon’s $100 USD dedicated digital signage stick – the latest being UK-based Signagelive. “The Amazon Signage Stick provides Signagelive customers with a cost-effective media player that is easy to purchase and get up and running in a few minutes. The performance and …
