ISE Updates: Mixer Status, DSS Conference Agenda, And A Key Tip On Getting In To The Show January 5, 2024 by Super User I was out walking with my wife Joy late yesterday, trying to march off some of unfortunate tummy expansion incurred in holiday eating and drinking, and saying, “Holy crap, we head to Barcelona in three weeks!” That trip and show came up fast, and I am now heavily into pulling together a variety of things …
CES Is Imminent, And The Big Consumer Brands Are Once Again Previewing Interesting But Dubious Concept Products January 2, 2024 by Super User The giant consumer-focused tech trade show CES is next week in Las Vegas, and there will be all kinds of digital signage and pro AV people going and enduring the line-ups and even-higher-then-normal prices for rooms and transport. The show doesn’t have a whole bunch to do with commercial AV, other than offering glimpses of …
DSE 2023 Recap Suggests Attendance Of Roughly 3,000; Most Of Them Buyers Designers Or Specifiers December 21, 2023 by Super User The 2023 edition of Digital Signage Experience (DSE) pulled roughly 3,000 attendees earlier this month in Las Vegas, with the show’s organizers noting that just shy of 80% of those attendees were buyers, or from companies that design, specify and put in digital signage and DOOH networks. Show owner Questex followed a press release earlier …
LDI Attracted More Than 12,000 To 2023 Show; No Post-Show Report Yet On Conjoined DSE December 20, 2023 by Super User The live events company that jointly puts on both Live Design International (LDI) and Digital Signage Experience (DSE) has pushed out a wrap-up press release about the main event and its positive growth, but the piece doesn’t get into any detail on the much smaller DSE show. Questex says LDI pulled more than 12,000 attendees, …
NRF’s Big Show In January Now Preceded By Full-Day Retail Media Networks Conference December 19, 2023 by Super User Discussion of retail media networks has really accelerated in the past year or so, and while a lot of that discussion has been much more about online and mobile, in-store displays are also getting a lot more attention as being part of the marketing mix. There’s enough noise about the topic that the National Retail …
KC’s Dimensional Innovations Helps Drive Visual Experience For Ted Lasso-Filled Thundergong Charity Concert December 19, 2023 by Super User This isn’t digital signage, but some great set design and supporting creative done by a company that is well known and very active in digital signage and creative technology jobs – Dimensional Innovations. If you’ve been on YouTube and come across videos of a charity concert involving some of the cast of Ted Lasso, that …
Denmark’s Realfiction Expanding Beyond Hologram-ish Displays With New Multi-View Tech December 15, 2023 by Super User The Danish display tech firm Realfiction is best known for its merchandising-sized holographic-ish displays that use a variation on the old Pepper’s Ghost reflected visual illusion technique, but next month during CES in Las Vegas it is planning to show and demo technology that shows different visuals to different viewers. The company is not at …
ISE Venue’s Main Entry Windows Getting Vast Transparent LED Retrofit In Time For 2024 Show December 15, 2023 by Super User The venue that is now home to the big pro AV trade show Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) is getting what would be one of the largest operating installations of that wafer-thin, perforated foil-like LED display tech on the curtain wall windows of the main entrance. The Welcome Screen at the South Access of Fira de …
Sixteen:Nine ISE Mixer Spots All Gone. Sorry!!! December 13, 2023 by Super User Well that didn’t take long! Available spots for the Sixteen:Nine Mixer at ISE in Barcelona next month went up yesterday, and now the admittedly limited supply has been exhausted. A Swiss guy got the last one. That stated, some tickets may come available from sponsors (you can grovel to one of them), and a few …
ISE Forecasting Biggest Exhibit Hall Footprint Ever, As Well As Largest Visitor Count December 13, 2023 by Super User Integrated Systems Europe is forecasting its exhibit hall footprint late next month in Barcelona will be its largest ever, almost a third larger than the 2023 show. The organizers are also suggesting the show might attract its highest number of visitors yet. “Anticipation is also building for the highest number of visitors ever recorded at …
