Midwest Grocer Hy-Vee Opts In On Grocery TV Platform For In-Store Media Network; While Appearing To Opt Out On Samsung’s VXT December 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is intriguing – the Midwest US grocer chain Hy-Vee has announced a partnership with the in-store media network Grocery TV to deploy what it says could be 10,000+ screens across more than 400 stores. That big roll-out comes a bit more than a year after Samsung made a bunch of marketing noise about Hy-Vee using …
Poppulo Largest CMS Company To Date To Adopt Amazon’s $100 Signage Stick As Hardware Option December 5, 2024 by Dave Haynes When etailing giant Amazon announced a couple of months ago that it had developed and was now marketing a lean version of its Fire TV HDMI sticks and specifically calling it the Amazon Signage Stick, it was reasonable to assume that the main software partners for the $100 device would be companies focused on the …
Icelandic Software Firm Launches “Hardware-Free” Digital Signage Solution November 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes An Icelandic software services company called Dacoda has wrapped up two years of development work and launched a new SaaS digital signage product that borrows on streaming TV technology – with a service that runs purely off a connected smart display’s browser. Called Signital – and I haven’t sorted our how to pronounce that … …
Scala Opens First Of What It Says Will Be Several Satellite Showrooms Across Europe November 27, 2024 by Dave Haynes There’s nothing unusual about digital signage CMS software companies having showrooms, but they’re almost always located somewhere in the head office building. The CMS software firm Scala does that, with a showroom space in its European head office in the Netherlands, but now it is also opening showrooms in regional locations – the first one …
Uniguest Consolidates Digital Communication Tools Into Single Cloud Platform November 22, 2024 by Dave Haynes One of the big challenges of growing a company through acquisition is harmonizing a bunch of solutions developed by the different sister-in-law companies and gradually offering up something cohesive. Nashville-based Uniguest has been on that journey and has now introduced Uniguest Hub, which presents its blended offer as a single management system. The new SaaS …
Free Download: The 10 Most Important Questions To Ask When Sourcing Digital Signage CMS Software November 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes German language content partner invidis has developed a free download PDF guide to choosing the optimal CMS software, and unlike some other publications (making a throat-clearing sound here) with such “guides” or lists, this one isn’t just a round-up of companies that happen to also be advertisers in those publications. invidis has developed a process …
Parking Lot Management Platform Adds Real-Time Displays To Solution Stack November 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of digital signage that’s put in place for no other reason than improving a process for the user and operator – networked displays in parking garage that are end-points in a cloud-based parking management system. I call it boring signage and that is a term of endearment, just like boring signage at …
Belfast’s Main Live Events Venue Does Digital Signage Refresh Across Venue November 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes The SSE Arena in Belfast has had digital signage as part of its communication mix since 2015, and the 11,000-seat venue – Northern Ireland’s biggest live events destination – has now completed a big upgrade that includes a lot of LED display. The arena, which is home to everything from concerts to Belfast Giants ice …
M&A: Eletromidia Brings Software Supplier 4YouSee In-House; Touchsource Bolsters Wayfinding Through Oppna Digital Deal October 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes A couple of acquisition stories this week – the larger of them coming out of Brazil, where the biggest DOOH media owner has acquired the largest CMS software platform provider in the LATAM region. Eletromidia reaches 22 million people daily through some 40,000 DOOH screens in malls, premium shopping malls, roadside screens in transit shelters, …
Optisigns Debuts Its Own $300 Pro Media Player, Paired With Its CMS Software October 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Houston-based OptiSigns has developed and launched a third media player to a hardware line-up that pairs with its digital signage CMS platform – a $300 Pro version that slots in between an entry-level Android HDMI stick and a high-end 8K-ready unit. The OptiSigns Pro Player is a ruggedized unit, passively-cooled little box that can do …
