16:9 DSE Mixer Booked; Sponsors Committed; Ticketing Starts After ISE January 9, 2019 by Super User Just signed the paperwork for the 2019 16:9 Mixer at Digital Signage Expo – the long-running unofficial kickoff event for the annual trade show in Las Vegas. It ain’t broke, so I haven’t fixed it. The venue, timing, and format are all the same. We have room, again, for 400, and if past years are …
DSE Extends Apex Awards Entries To Jan. 16th January 2, 2019 by Super User The Digital Signage Expo folks have extended the nominations deadline for its annual APEX Awards – which recognize excellence in digital signage creative and execution. To qualify, nominees must have a new or current digital signage or interactive technology program installed between Nov. 1, 2017, and Oct. 31, 2018. Updated content for existing digital signage installations that began …
DSE ONE EUROPE Conference In London Moved Back To May 2019 October 29, 2018 by Super User The Digital Signage Expo folks have shifted plans for a one-day event in London from December of this year to May of next year. DSE ONE-EUROPE was originally set for Dec. 5th in London, a few weeks from now, but will now be in May 2019. I can only find stuff that generally says May, …
DSE/DSF Open Call for 2019 APEX Awards Nominations July 26, 2018 by Super User Nominations are now being accepted for the 15th Annual APEX Awards, the awards program put on each year by Digital Signage Expo and guided/presented by the Digital Signage Federation. The awards recognize and honor achievement in the creation and installation of compelling viewer content and interactive technology in the industry. “The most exciting part about …
DSE 2018 Foot Traffic Back To Recent Year Averages, But End-User Percentage Up April 11, 2018 by Super User After a seemingly slow day two for foot traffic at Digital Signage Expo a couple of weeks ago, I wondered how the trade show organizers were going to spin the post-show attendance story. The numbers are now out, and DSE is touting how buyer attendance was better than ever. Atlanta-based Exponation, which has run the …
16:9 Podcasts – Reece Kurtenbach On Why Hyper-Competition Is Nothing New To Daktronics April 4, 2018 by Super User Reece Kurtenbach now runs Daktronics, the company started by his father and a university colleague 50 years ago – and has grown up seeing it evolve from electronic voting systems from state politicians to the maker behind some of the biggest and most iconic LED display boards on the planet. That’s Daktronics’ tech, for example, …
DSF Hands Out Women Scholarship And Educator Awards, And The Names Have Familiar Rings April 3, 2018 by Super User There were a couple of particularly nice little moments last week at the post-day one awards event at Digital Signage Expo – when a couple of people were recognized. The Digital Signage Federation awarded the DSF Geri Wolff Scholarship for the 2017-18 year to Sonia Darlison, a student at the University of Waterloo, in Ontario. The …
Here Are The DSE 2018 Project And Creative Award Winners … March 30, 2018 by Super User Here are the winners from this year’s awards program at Digital Signage Expo, announced and handed out Wednesday at a reception. Arts, Entertainment and Recreation McCann Systems for 150 Media Stream Business and Government Services Dreambox Visual Communications for 22nd World Petroleum Congress Official Opening Ceremony Education and Healthcare Forge Media + Design for Holomodor …
DSE 2018 – Day Two Impressions – Slooooooow March 30, 2018 by Super User In the fall of 2008, just as the recession really started to reveal itself on the markets and elsewhere, Philadelphia was host to Digital Signage Expo East. Foot traffic would be politely described as modest. It was pretty much a ghost town. The story was 900 people in all, but that was doubted. There’s no …
DSE 2018 – Day One Impressions March 29, 2018 by Super User The first day on the Digital Signage Expo trade show floor is in the can. The hall looked good and there at least seemed to be healthy-sized crowds. I definitely wasn’t having to fight my way through hordes, but the aisles all had decent traffic. The show is upstairs in a different south hall, with …
