Best Mixer Yet! March 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes Back at hotel room. Tired feet up. Kinda sorta mostly sober. And reviewing proceedings from the mixer. From our own perspective and what we heard from attendees, it was the best one yet. We think we had about 350 people. We had about 100 no-sbows, but maybe 40 or 50 we sorted out at the …
It’s Opening Day At DSE 2018 March 27, 2018 by Dave Haynes It is Digital Signage Expo week, and tonight, the big 16:9 Mixer. If you are heading to the LVCC for the pre-show conferences today, you should know DSE is in the South Hall again and this year, upstairs, above the free drinks at many booths of the nightclub and bar show. If you are registered …
Report From ISA: Little Sign Of Digital Signage At Sign Industry’s Big Show, But Hints Of An Uptick March 23, 2018 by Jim Nista Guest Post: Jim Nista, Insteo Sign Expo, the International Sign Association’s (ISA) big annual trade show, is underway in Orlando. The ISA show focuses on the print and outdoor sign industry, with large format printers, CNC machines, light pole flags, architectural signage, and large outdoor LED. There’s even a section for bucket trucks for outdoor …
Chopper Hauls 300-Ft Projection-Mapped Screen Across Dubai Skyline March 20, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is the world’s largest aerial projection screen, executed (unsurprisingly) in or more accurately over Dubai recently. It involves a 300-foot fabric aerial screen towed by a Bell 212 Helicopter, while a second Bell 212 projected the video onto the screen, using projection mapping. The content is a visual tribute to Shaikh Zayed, who Wikipedia …
ISE’s Final 2018 Numbers: Digital Signage 2nd Biggest Attraction To Show March 12, 2018 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe has pushed out a comprehensive report that looks at the characteristics of attendees of the giant pro-AV trade show a few week weeks ago. The final headcount was 80,923, 59,098 attendees and another 20,207 people working at exhibits. There were also 1,618 press,VIPs and speakers. Of the overall number of attendees, 22,393 were there for the first time. The …
DPAA Plans May 14th Digital OOH Summit In Toronto March 2, 2018 by Dave Haynes The DPAA is holding an out of home media summit on May 14th in Toronto – presumably a smaller version of the annual event it runs each fall in New York. If you are going to do this sort of thing in Canada, Toronto is where it would need to be, since most of the …
Photos From 2018 Digital Signage Awards February 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Awards folks sent along a series of photos from the ceremony held three weeks ago in Amsterdam. The event looked quite nice, and I liked the glass trophy-thingies, which could double as anchors or deadly weapons. The things were solid. Host Matthew Davies congratulating Joe’ Lloyd from NanoLumens. Jason Cremins from Signagelive …
Samsung’s Micro LED “Wall” Will Be At Infocomm February 27, 2018 by Dave Haynes The interesting thing about sitting in on the Samsung “Resolution” road tour the display company is doing around the US is listening in on what the company is relaying to partners. First – expectations for growth in the outdoor display market are huge. The company did about $100 million in outdoor display sales in 2017, …
ISE’s Final 2018 Tally Logs Almost 81,000 Attendees February 15, 2018 by Dave Haynes Last week’s Integrated Systems Europe attracted almost almost 81,000 people, a massive foot traffic bump and one that spread across four days. The number of registered visitors to the Amsterdam show reached 80,923, an increase of 10.3% on the 2017 edition. Almost 20,000 visitors attended the last day of the show – impressive considering how …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Andrea Varrone Previews Digital Signage Expo 2018 February 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes Trade show managers like to attend other trade shows to see what’s going and how things are done, as well chat up exhibitors who might also want to hang a shingle at that trade show manager’s own event. So it was no surprise last week to find Andre Varrone – who runs Digital Signage Expo …
