Video/Pix: NYC’s Reinvent Payphone Finalists March 7, 2013 by Super User Tech blog The Verge has a good piece up this morning about finalist entries in a competition intended to reinvent payphones in New York City. It’s an initiative, reports the blog, that invites students, urban planners, and designers to propose their visions for the payphone of the future. The finalists were selected as winners in six …
DSE 2013 Stats Up Across Board March 7, 2013 by Super User The Digital Signage Expo people have released stats for last week, some I am not convinced I was supposed to see (and will hold back on). Actual attendance was 4,080, which was up slightly from a year earlier and not as high as expected, as the DSE folks speculate that there were some 1,400 no-shows …
Video Blog: Samsung’s New SoC Smart Signage March 7, 2013 by Super User My Signagelive friends, Jason Cremins and Raffi Vartian, have been talking up a storm with anyone who will listen about the merits and possibilities of Samsung’s SoC product, which was announced at ISE and then announced formally for the N. America market last week at DSE. It interests me as a product for a few …
Lemme see: Do I Hang Out With Alan Brawn or Halle Berry … March 6, 2013 by Super User That is Phil Cohen, the Chairman of the Digital Signage Federation, in the immediate vicinity of pulse-raising Hollywood actress Halle Berry. @philipmcohen and Halle Berry at #TheCallMovie premiere! pic.twitter.com/XMoJilDG3y— Kim Sarubbi (@SaddleRanchDigi) March 6, 2013 When not hanging out with Alan Brawn, Ken Goldberg and other DSF folks, or running Care Media, Cohen slums as …
Video Blog: Wandering The Sides And Back Of The DSE Floor March 6, 2013 by Super User It took a while, but here’s the second of three video posts we shot last week on the DSE show floor. The premise for this one is simple enough. People naturally gravitate to the big booths when they walk into trade shows. Being slightly nuts, and having been at this show many, many times, I …
Real-Time Buying Exchange For DOOH Does $1.5M Raise March 6, 2013 by Super User In theory, at least, some company is going to make money, instead of chew through it, rolling up and selling Digital OOH media. There are a number of companies dead (SeeSaw) or very, very quiet (rVue, Adcentricity) who have had a run at that market, and others you don’t hear much about. But the attraction …
Projects: Impulse Buy Screens At Sydney Opera House March 6, 2013 by Super User So, I would like to sit and have a drink here. Just saying. The Australian integrator Mediaplay and its software partner YCD Multimedia have sent out details and images of a project involving the Opera Kitchen restaurant, which is part of Sydney’s iconic Sydney Opera House. The restaurant is an open air venue located on …
Prysm Gets Japan Distribution Deal With Sony March 6, 2013 by Super User Sony does pro displays and video walls, but the business solution side of its business in Japan evidently doesn’t see much of a conflict in also marketing Prysm’s video display blocks in that country. Prysm has done a deal with Sony Business Solutions Corporation that will the San Jose, CA-based company’s Laser Phosphor Display technology …
Projects: Esplanade Centre In Medicine Hat March 5, 2013 by Super User The Esplanade Arts and Heritage Centre in Medicine Hat, Alberta (for people who like this sort of Canadiana, about 90 minutes west of Swift Current, five hours west of Moose Jaw and 63 hours west of Joe Batt’s Arm) has installed a digital signage network to promote current and upcoming events at the venue. The …
Follow The Money Dep’t: OAAA Says Outdoor Spend Up 4.2% In 2012 March 5, 2013 by Super User OOH advertising revenue rose 4.2%, to $6.7 billion, based on new figures from the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, aka OAAA. The OAAA also said OOH revenue figures were up 3.4% in Q4, compared to 2011. That was the 11th straight quarter with an uptick. “Out of home continues to perform well year after year, …
