More Evidence COVID Era Has Blown Up Demand For Self-Service Screens, This Time Out Of Canada October 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes Just about every piece of market research I come across that touches on digital signage is built around data developed in the US market, or sometimes from the EU. I never see research focused just on the Canadian market, but I just stumbled on some focused on self-service displays, aka kiosks. The survey suggests a …
SigmaSense Completes $24M Raise To Broaden Reach Of Its Touch Technologies October 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes Austin, TX-based touch technology firm SigmaSense has announced the closing of a $24 million Series B fundraising round the company says will be used to expand its reach in the touch, digital signage and HMI (Human Machine Interface) markets. The company does very slick sensing technology that goes well beyond the boink-boink basics of touchscreens …
Elo Releases 4th-Gen, Android 10-Driven Options For Interactive Screens October 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes With self-service ordering getting mainstreamed by the pandemic – use a machine instead of riskier person to person contact – all-in-one kiosk displays are presumably seeing a lot of demand across numerous industry verticals beyond the obvious one of QSR and fast-casual. Silicon Valley-based Elo has just announced its newest interactive screen options – which …
BrightSign Has Sold And Shipped 1M Little Purple Play-out Boxes In Last Four Years October 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes BrightSign has announced it has now shipped two million of its little purple media play-out boxes, half of those in just the last four years. That’s about 1,000 units shipped per day lately, which is impressive. I have lately been referring to BrightSign as a category, as opposed to a player option. When I hear …
ScreenCloud Announces New Purpose-Built Operating System And Sub-$200 Digital Signage Playout Device October 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes The UK-based digital signage CMS firm ScreenCloud has taken the interesting step of putting two years of R&D time and money into developing a purpose-built operating system for its playout software and a new, low-cost device. The company has launched ScreenCloud OS – a custom linux distribution it says is designed for high performance, simple …
When Your Pro AV Company Is Named Covid, All You Can Do Is Laugh, Shrug And Carry On September 23, 2021 by Dave Haynes The organizers of the InfoComm trade show coming up in a few weeks are doing everything possible to keep COVID out of the convention center venue, but in an exceptionally weird twist, Covid has booth 3354 on the exhibit hall floor. A Tempe, AZ company called Covid has been manufacturing audio-visual connectivity solutions for nearly …
BroadSign Forms Consortium To Chase In-Retail Software And Ad Opportunities September 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes Something of a consortium of familiar vendors and service providers in the digital signage sector have linked up to go after the retail market with a model that could include monetization through third-party and endemic advertising. Broadsign has announced what it calls a “joint effort” with visual solutions company Gable, managed network services and solutions …
Mvix, BrightSign Pair On Worry-Free Signature Care Program For Large Digital Signage Networks September 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes The DC-area digital signage software firm Mvix has partnered with BrightSign on a new program designed to take any hardware worries off the table in planning large, long-term networks. The new Signature Care program provides a lot of hand-holding through deployment, ongoing priority support, and built-in hardware refreshes after three years. Targeted at enterprise-scale deployments, …
UPshow Broadens Digital Signage Services From Bars To – Wait For It – K-12 Schools??? August 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is one of those company pivots I think few people would have seen coming – a firm that got its start putting screens in bars now also marketing an on-premise messaging solution for K-12 schools. Chicago-based UPshow has announced a partnership with the Taiwan-based tech firm AOPEN “to bring captivating, targeted entertainment; valuable, engaging educational …
Chromeboxes Are Still Out There, And Being Used On Digital Signage Jobs August 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes There was a time, a few years back, when hardware devices running Google’s Chrome operating system were thought in some circles to be a next big thing in digital signage – because the devices were relatively inexpensive, used an OS based on the latest web technologies, and were backed by a top three global tech …
