Ayuda Adds AI-driven Audience Analytics Through Partnership With AdMobiliZe November 15, 2017 by Super User Miami’s AdMobilize has done a partnership deal that will see itsAI-based audience analytics and reporting capabilities running on out of home media properties that run off Ayuda Media Systems software. The integration will equip uses of Montreal-based Ayuda’s ERP and signage platform with both audience measurement and vehicle analytics functionality, as well as real-time campaign performance …
Sony To Debut Interactive Digital Signage Platform At CES: Report October 30, 2017 by Super User Sony is reportedly planning to introduce an interactive digital signage platform at CES in Las Vegas in January that mashes up gesture sensors, augmented reality, audience analytics and signage. The Sony MITENE system has been around in Japan for several years, but a new 4K version will be shown and marketed in North America. Let’s …
Some LV Strip Marquees Switch Off Promos In Wake Of Sunday’s Massacre October 3, 2017 by Super User Anyone who’s been to Las Vegas is familiar with the giant marquee displays that line the Strip in front of hotels, as well as the LED billboards along the roads running to the strip from the airport and elsewhere. Normally, they’re visual riots promoting entertainers, restaurants and clubs. But this week, at least with some …
China’s Hisense Starts Selling Digital Signage Displays In U.S. June 16, 2017 by Super User Chinese display manufacturers make and market container ship-loads of TVs for the North American consumer market, but they haven’t really shown up in the commercial display market and digital signage. Until now … Hisense is pretty well known for budget TVs but at InfoComm this week the Chinese company is in the Almo booth showing …
There May Be Beer: Ingram Micro Plans Canadian Night At InfoComm June 7, 2017 by Super User The Ingram Micro Pro/AV Digital Signage team is having an InfoComm Canadian Night next Tuesday at a restaurant and bar on I Drive in Orlando. The event is targeted to Canadians working in in the pro AV and signage ecosystems, and is sponsored by the Canadian Ingram Micro team and vendor partners like Chief, Da-Lite, NEC, …
School IT Services Firm Blends Mobile App With Digital Signage Menuboard Offer June 7, 2017 by Super User In an interesting twist, a tech services provider for K-12 districts, charter schools, and continuing education programs has come up with a school lunch application that blends a mobile app for rating and feedback with digital signage menuboards in lunchrooms. Harris School Solutions (HSS) says EZSchoolLunch “uses emojis, meal ratings, and other features to get students as engaged …
Analyst: Cineplex’s Digital Signage Business Should Hit $60M In 2017 May 31, 2017 by Super User Via Business In Vancouver The guys who operated for years as EK3 were notoriously low-key and tight-lipped about what who they worked with and how they were doing, but in the wake of being acquired in 2013 by the Canadian cinema chain Cineplex, there’s more information coming available. “Any time you walk into a McDonald’s …
Leyard Debuts Overlay That Enables Multi-Touch On Fine-Pitch LED Video Walls April 24, 2017 by Super User Leyard is at the 2017 National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Show this week in Las Vegas, showing a fine pixel pitch LED video wall that supports multi-touch interactivity. It’s an overlay of some kind, but isn’t glass, so it doesn’t cause glare or, more importantly, trap the heat that can build up from all those …
For The 11 Zillionth Time, Do Not Turn Off The Damn TV! April 20, 2017 by Super User Another tale of When Cheap Meets Real World, as spotted by reader … My guess – some crappy Android HDMI stick that’s powered by the TV’s USB. TV goes off, stick powers off, and doesn’t come back without a fight when TV powered back on. If so, simple, smart remedy is to plug stick power …
Tales From The ISE Aisles: Two Weeks Later And I’m Still Tired February 23, 2017 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler Digital Signage ISE ended two weeks ago, and I’m still tired. I fell asleep on the plane before we took off from Amsterdam to Madrid. Then slept again from Madrid to Coruna. I got home, kissed my wife and kids, handed them presents, and took a two and half hour …