April 21st Telelogos Webinar Looks At Secure Digital Signage Management In Banking April 1, 2021 by Super User I’m moderating what should be an interesting online roundtable in roughly three weeks, focused on the use and particularly management of a digital signage across a major South African bank. Nedbank is something of a pioneer, doing early, in-branch digital signage more than 20 years ago, when it was probably referred to as something like …
Adobe Gets Its Screens CMS Running On BrightSign Boxes March 31, 2021 by Super User The team behind creative software giant Adobe’s Experience Manager Screens digital signage CMS has completed an integration that makes the platform work natively with the little purple play-out boxes from Silicon Valley neighbor BrightSign. “BrightSign’s hardware is widely used throughout the industry to power digital signage experiences in a wide range of use cases,” says …
Enplug Latest Firm Acquired In Spectrio’s Digital Signage Roll-Up Strategy March 31, 2021 by Super User The Florida customer engagement solutions provider Spectrio is continuing its strategy of growing through acquisition, buying the LA-based digital signage CMS Enplug. The deal is on the heels of recent acquisitions of Screenscape and Industry Weapon, and in recent years Spectrio has also acquired 10 Foot Wave and Codigo. “The acquisition,” says PR, “enhances Spectrio’s …
New Family Resort Using Digital Signage To Message Across Massive Physical Footprint March 30, 2021 by Super User Most of the PR that comes in about work in resorts tends to be for casinos, and the giant displays the owners put into the sports books and on the sides of the building. Here’s a good example of a digital signage install across a full report property, in this case the new family-focused, non-casino …
Outfront Media Adopts Broadsign As DOOH Ad Management Platform March 23, 2021 by Super User I can’t think of another CMS software company that has managed to build up something akin to dominance in a vertical market the way Broadsign has with ad-based Digital OOH Networks. The one exception would perhaps be STRATACACHE, but in a very different vertical – major QSR chains. Montreal-based Broadsign works with many of the …
C-Store Chain Kwik Trip Finishes 1,000+ Screen Rollout Across US Midwest March 19, 2021 by Super User The commercial display company PPDS, aka Philips, has announced the completion of a smart digital signage rollout to some 700 Kwik Trip convenience stores across the U.S. midwest. The c-store chain started a modernization program in 2018 and now has more than 1,000 screens in place – all of them Philips D-Line displays with embedded …
Feeding The Content Beast With “Machine-Generated Creative” March 17, 2021 by Super User Feeding the content beast – steadily dealing with the insatiable appetite of a digital signage network – has been an issue for as long as the industry has been around, and one that’s still not really solved. Data integration capabilities, scripting and presentation tools like HTML5 have made it possible to automate some messaging, which …
Four Winds Merges With Irish Employee Communications Firm Poppulo March 15, 2021 by Super User Denver-based digital signage CMS firm Four Winds Interactive has merged with a company called Poppulo, which does email and mobile employee communication software. The combination is backed by Vista Equity Partners, the investment firm that had earlier taken a substantial ownership position in FWI. Says the PR: Through this merger, the combined business will serve 6,000+ customers, the …
Carousel Extends Digital Signage Reach To Clients’ WFH Screens March 5, 2021 by Super User In the past year I have read several PR pieces detailing how a digital signage CMS platform has been tweaked and expanded to enable desktop communications to all the Work From Homers, but seemingly all of them have said what’s possible, not what’s happening. Here’s a working example, from Minneapolis-based Carousel Digital Signage, which is …
ZetaDisplay Continues To Expand, Cracking Germany Via Nordland Systems Acquisition March 5, 2021 by Super User The Swedish digital signage solutions provider ZetaDisplay is continuing its strategy of growing, at least in part, through acquisitions, announcing a deal to acquire the German systems integrator NORDLAND systems GmbH. The deal took effect yesterday, and represents the listed company’s first move into the German market. Zeta started out by acquiring companies in Scandinavia, …
