Screenfeed’s Free World Cup Results Feed Kicks Off Today June 12, 2014 by Dave Haynes I think I saw a tweet from Jeremy Gavin at Screenfeed suggesting he has more than 200 networks that have already picked up his free World Cup match results feed. The tournament starts today and Gavin’s company is making free content available to networks, and no doubt piucking up some paid business through other World …
Screenfeed Kicks Off Free World Cup Content Feed For Digital Signage Operators May 21, 2014 by Dave Haynes Content feed packager Screenfeed (loyal Sixteen:Nine advertiser) has released a nice free feed for network operators that are interested in running final scores from the upcoming football (soccer) World Cup. The automated feed is free to whoever wants it, presumably as a sampler and as a carrot to get operators interested in running a separate, …
Projects: Tim Hortons TV’s Tidy Programming Design May 17, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons has been rolling out its dining area network for a few months now, but I hadn’t seen one in the wild until this afternoon, at one of my local Timmies locations. I’m not convinced the things accomplish all that much, especially one located in a smaller footprint site where …
Electric Objects Poised To Launch Digital Art Display Service May 13, 2014 by Dave Haynes Electric Objects got some tech-blog love recently from TechCrunch, which wrote about the NYC start-up has raised $1.7 million to launch a service that I’d describe as a first-cousin of digital signage. The company is developing a service that allows people to hang digital art posters in their living or work spaces and subscribe to …
Facebook Makes It Easier To Get Its Social Content To Screens May 1, 2014 by Dave Haynes Much of the social media visualization done in digital signage has focused on Twitter feeds and particularly hash tags, but Facebook has released a new API that is intended to draw some of the attention to its own social streams. The Trending, Topic Insights, Topic Feed, and Hashtag Counter APIs were announced Wednesday by Facebook’s Public …
Web Services Emerging To Help Push Real Time Content To Signs April 11, 2014 by Dave Haynes The technical stuff here is way the heck over my head, but a startup just coming out of private beta would at least seem to have a service that would intrigue digital signage software companies that use browsers as players and use, or want to use, a lot of live data. TechCrunch has a post …
Tapping The Social Media Firehose For Digital Signage Content April 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes When I spend time with consulting clients who want to have, or are upgrading, public-facing digital signage networks, the conversation around the content mix usually involves a discussion about what the client does with social media. Usually, it’s very little, because social media is this big, unwieldy thing that keeps shape-shifting and causing trouble. That’s …
2 Hemisphere Puts Digital Signage Content Focus On Health March 11, 2014 by Dave Haynes Ventura, California-based agency 2 Hemispheres, which lists digital signage content among several capabilities, has started making noise about its impressive library of health-focused content available for digital signage network operators. The agency has some 200 digital signage network-tuned video clips on a variety of health topics, available for download by network operators. Executive Creative Director James …
Signagelive Now Has Screenfeed Inside March 9, 2014 by Dave Haynes A few digital signage software companies have talked in the last two or three years about their plans to make content marketplaces part of their offer, but I’ve not seen a lot that extends beyond some content widgets for weather and tickers. Instead, the companies that do automated content feeds have been, by and large, …
Three Content Options, Two Free, For St. Patrick’s Day Greetings March 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes St. Paddy’s Day is less than two weeks out and if your network or business has a lot of Celtic people – or just a lot of people who seize that day for serious partying – you might want to get a greeting on the screen. Here are three options for you (there may be …
