PORTL Puts Swiss Timepiece Execs At Shanghai Trade Show, Without Leaving Alps April 19, 2021 by Super User I’m a big fan of what PORTL is doing with its remote display system, for use-cases like new luxury watch launches and demos done by a Swiss firm for a recent trade show many time zones away in Shanghai. The timepiece firm IWC used PORTL’s display and software system to have its CEO and rock …
Growth Expected In Bundled, All-In-One DV LED Displays: Omdia April 16, 2021 by Super User There is now enough activity and demand in the area of all-in-one, bundled LED displays to warrant marketplace research and analysis, with a new report from the global research firm Omdia looking specifically at this narrowly-defined product category. Omdia has broken out data from its regular LED Video Displays Market Tracker to look specifically at …
Nudge: Looking For More Responses To Workplace Digital Signage Survey (Takes Minutes!) April 16, 2021 by Super User I am looking for more responses to the workplace digital signage survey I pushed out earlier in the week, which is gathering insights about how the tech fits in workplaces that are, or will soon be, repopulating. The survey is just a Google form and you should be able to bomb through it in a …
The Interactive Display Ecosystem Sorted And Laid Out In A Single Poster April 13, 2021 by Super User Every so often there are graphics that come out from technology sectors that try to identify and sort a particular ecosystem, grouping sets of company logos by capability or focus. I can’t recall seeing one focused on digital signage, and that may be in part because of the 100s of CMS software companies out there …
Wallboard Shows Why On-Demand Video Product Demos Make Sense April 8, 2021 by Super User I pretty much write for a living, but in the context of the industry I cover, I’m usually much happier when a vendor shows me what a product or services does, as opposed to making me read about it. So I think a new YouTube demo series put out by the Hungarian/American CMS company Wallboard …
Ladorian, inReality Partner On Data-Driven Personalized Messaging For In-Store Screens April 8, 2021 by Super User That feeling you sometimes get online – with served ads that seem to know your recent, personalized shopping interests – is now finding its way into physical stores through tie-ups like a new one between a pair of digital signage-focused tech firms. Madrid-based Ladorian, which has a software solution specializing in personalized data-driven messaging in …
Vitec Acquires IPTV Signage Rival Exterity; Plans To Converge Platforms April 6, 2021 by Super User A pair of IP streaming firms with substantial offers for digital signage have merged, broadening their collective reach and portfolion. The French firm VITEC acquired the Scottish company Exterity, with a plan to converge platforms and leverage a blended engineering team of some 200 around the globe. “Exterity is a respected IPTV and Digital Signage leader around …
Tooshlights Makes Real-Time Toilet Occupancy Data Available For Digital Signs April 5, 2021 by Super User RH Image: TRAX Analytics Some of the best data integrations that can be done between sensors and systems, and digital signage networks, is tapping into real time data that can visually indicate what’s going on. You’ve likely seen digital signs that show the availability of stalls, overall and floor by floor, in large parkades. Now …
Raydiant Acquires Staff Motivation Firm, Broadening Workplace Communications Offer April 5, 2021 by Super User Silicon Valley-area digital signage CMS startup Raydiant has announced its acquisition of Hoopla, a content and tech partner that does what it calls a performance management and motivation platform for workplaces. The company, founded in 2017, was already using Hoopla’s data-driven, gamified, motivation solutions as part of its signage offer, and this certainly broadens Raydiant’s …
ITESMEDIA Puts Digital Signage Messaging Inside Microsoft Teams April 1, 2021 by Super User The Montreal-area digital signage and interactive solutions firm ITESMEDIA has some up with an interesting wrinkle on workplace communications for companies that now have a lot of their staff working remotely. The company has developed staff messaging capabilities that work within Microsoft Teams, which like Zoom has seen a boom in usage in the past …
