CIVIQ’s Gleeson On Progress Of LinkNYC Smart City Efforts May 10, 2017 by Super User Here is the first of a two-part Q&A session with digital signage veteran Brad Gleeson, now the Chief Commercial Officer at CIVIQ, on that company’s smart cities efforts in New York and beyond. The completed Q&A was provided to 16:9 by a Samsung agency, but they’re the sorts of questions I’d ask. I thought about it, and …
Grand Visual Spins Off QDOT; Aims To Ease Managing DOOH Campaigns Across Multiple Ad Networks April 26, 2017 by Super User The UK-based digital OOH creative production house Grand Visual has long been involved on the technical side of that business, and has now gone a lot deeper by formally spinning off an ad technology company that’s meant to make it easier to manage, measure and deliver dynamic ad campaigns across multiple ad networks. The company says QDOT …
Projects: New Chicago Office Tower Switches On Amazing Staggered Column LED Wall April 26, 2017 by Super User A new commercial tower in Chicago called 150 North Riverside has lit up what looks to be a pretty amazing video wall/experiential digital art sculpture in its lobby, using a staggered series of direct view LED columns. https://vimeo.com/214059013 Called 150 Media Stream, the 3,000 sq ft wall is there as a digital art both for …
NYC Startup Roadify Makes Subscription Mass Transit Data Available For Digital Signage Networks April 19, 2017 by Super User It appears the TransitScreen guys have some indirect competition – in the form of a NYC startup Roadify Transit – when it comes to providing local mass transport data to screen networks. Roadify aggregates transit data from more than 400 agencies, bike share programs, and car ride services in the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, and Australia …
Browsing Google Chrome And The Physical Web April 19, 2017 by Charles Regula Guest Post: Doug Thompson, Fidgets Chrome 57 has launched, and with it in-browser support for the Physical Web. Now, when a user goes to conduct a search or enter a web URL, any nearby Physical Web addresses will appear just below the address bar as seen in the above graphic. It adds another piece to the proximity …
Data Integration Is What It’s All About These Days April 18, 2017 by DanielWaldron Guest Post: Loren Bucklin, ConnectedSign Data integration is really what sophisticated digital signage is all about these days – using real-time information to generate relevant, easily consumed visuals for screens. Done well for businesses, it can do things like help staff to keep the mission, vision and values of their company top of mind. For …
Impressions From InfoComm China 2017 April 17, 2017 by Super User Back from Beijing after several days spent talking and walking at InfoComm China, and waaaay too many hours on my butt flying home. Thanks first to John Wang and Amanda Sung of IAdea, and the rest of the folks from the Digital Signage Multimedia Alliance (of Taiwan) for working with InfoComm to have me over …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Ke-Quang Nguyen-Phuc, Quividi April 12, 2017 by Super User A lot of companies have come in and out of video analytics for digital signage, but the one constant has been Quividi – a French company with an anonymous pattern detection product a lot of people will tell you is the gold standard for this tech. I sat with CEO Ke-Quang Nguyen-Phuc during a break …
How To Impress Your Audience With An Interactive Video Wall April 7, 2017 by Super User Guest Post: Tim Griffin, Userful Video walls are everywhere and companies are looking for creative ways to use them. Gone are the days of slapping together a grid of a few displays and playing content around them. Customers are looking for artistic layouts, interactive content, dynamic content switching, immersive experiences, and more. All too often, …
Allure Launching AutoFocus Content Automation Tech Aimed At Cinema Services March 24, 2017 by Super User The cinema-focused digital signage solutions company Allure is announcing content automation technology at CinemaCon in Las Vegas next week that makes heavy use of data sources and rules to determine what’s on digital menus and posters. Called Allure AutoFocus, the software engine uses relational algorithms that drive the CMS “with the what, when, where, why and how …
