LED ATM Surround Gets Display-Cased To Stop The Beating November 5, 2021 by Super User When I have done talks about LED displays with different groups I have often related how susceptible they can be to accidental or intentional damage – especially with conventional surface-mounted LED displays that don’t have any sort of protective coating. Exhibit A in my slides has inevitably been a display that is built around two …
30-Meter LED Billboard Lights Up INSIDE A Munich Rail Hub November 2, 2021 by Super User Here’s more evidence of the mainstreaming of LED displays – in this case a scenario that has been using LED for a few years, but not often at this scale. This is a highway billboard-sized narrow pitch LED display at a main access point into the mass transport services below or near the Karlplatz, a …
Poland’s Screen Network Raising Climate Change Awareness Using Warsaw LED Countdown Clock October 28, 2021 by Super User The Polish OOH media firm Screen Network has started supporting an educational campaign that bluntly reminds people how time is running out to make the industrial and behavioral changes to stop what would be irreversible climate changes. A climate change countdown clock is now part of the content running on a big LED display atop …
Invidis Releases 2021 Version Of Its Excellent, EU-Focused Digital Signage Yearbook (And It’s Free) October 15, 2021 by Super User Munich-based digital signage consultancy and publisher Invidis has, for many years, produced an excellent annual report looking at the state of the industry in the European market, and the 2021 version just came out this week. The good news is it is a free download, and there is an English language version along with one …
Streaming Place-based TV Spin-out Atmosphere Adds Canada, Australia and New Zealand To Service Coverage October 12, 2021 by Super User Austin-based streaming TV for business service Atmosphere is expanding beyond its U.S. operations, opening up new markets in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The Austin-based company, which has a series of OTT streaming short-form TV channels geared to place-based media environments like restaurants, bars, gyms, hotels and doctors’ offices. The company says it already has …
Ex-Geopath Head Kym Frank Joins Intermx As Global Chief Experience Officer October 12, 2021 by Super User The location data and platform-provider Intermx has hired on former Geopath head Kym Frank in a newly-created role of Global Chief Experience Officer (CxO). Frank is very well known in digital OOH circles as the longtime, very knowledgeable head of the audience measurement bureau Geopath, but she resigned very abruptly at the start of the summer …
Broadsign, DOOHX Partner On New Online Courses Intended To Demystify The Very Mystifying World Of Digital Out Of Home October 7, 2021 by Super User Sixteen:Nine doesn’t heavily cover the digital OOH industry for three main reasons: There’s more than enough broadly going on in digital signage to keep me busy; Digital OOH is very much a distinct thing – an advertising medium and separate ecosystem that uses digital signage technologies; I can’t always figure out WTF these companies are …
Atmosphere Adds Streaming, Steadily-Updated News To Place-Based TV Channel Options October 5, 2021 by Super User Bandwidth has sped up and stabilized to a level that using streaming TV as part or all of a digital signage/DOOH solution no longer seems unpredictable and risky, and a good example of where things are heading is an Austin, TX company called Atmosphere, which spun out a couple of years ago from Chive Media …
IT Services Firm Velocity Adds Motel 6 Lobbies To Fast-Growing Digital Signage And DOOH Footprint In US October 5, 2021 by Super User A really good example of how AV, digital signage and IT services are converging is an Ohio IT managed services company called Velocity, which has broadened its scope to include screen networks and even digital OOH media sales. The company has announced a partnership with a hotel group – G6 Hospitality – to deploy digital …
Hong Kong Startup Displayforce Launches Digital Signage CMS And AI-Based, Ad-Focused Platform In $299 “Box” October 5, 2021 by Super User A Hong Kong start-up called Displayforce has launched an interesting new product and service that pairs a digital signage play-out device with a camera used to do audience measurement and trigger content. The Displayforce Box is an L-shaped unit that can be parked on the top or bottom of a flat panel display and powered via …
