Infocomm 25: Full House, But Some Things Are Missing June 12, 2025 by Florian Rotberg Infocomm 2025 kicked off today, and the halls are buzzing as usual. But there’s one big difference this year: Samsung and LG are nowhere to be found – at least at first glance. Instead of their usual massive booths, Samsung is tucked away in a private meeting room outside the main hall, while LG keeps …
PPDS Introduces Foldable All-in-One LED at Infocomm June 11, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger One of the main barriers to adopting LED walls in corporate and public environments continues to be cost. But one argument that seems to convince enterprises indecisive about the investment is transportability. With mobile and foldable displays that can fit through standard doorways and inside elevators, a single display can potentially serve multiple rooms, maximizing …
TCL Launches New Pro Display Brand at Infocomm June 11, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger While some Chinese manufacturers are absent at this year’s Infocomm for obvious reasons, the TV giant TCL has chosen Orlando to launch a new brand for North America: TCL professional. The brand focuses exclusively on pro displays and – in contrast to TCL’s Moka brand – will eventually offer a full line-up of signage solutions …
Chile’s Iconic 2009 Screen Gets Bold Upgrade June 11, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger What was once the largest outdoor screen in South America has been renewed – a 360-degree screen wrapping around the upper part of the Torre Entel in Santiago de Chile. The Torre was built in 1974 as a telecommunications antenna. In 2009, it had received a big digital facelift with an LED screen installed below …
Poppulo Doubles Down on AI With Agents and Web Composer June 10, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Following Korbyt’s launch of a new AI agent suite, Poppulo has made a simlilar announcement. The Denver-based CMS company has developed what it calls “Analyze Agent,” which is dubbed as a foundational model for a future set of task-driven agents. Once launched, these agents will then relieve users of a lot of the manual work …
The invidis Yearbook 2025 aka “Industry Bible” Download Is Here June 10, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger By now, most 16:9 readers should have noticed this isn’t Dave Haynes speaking anymore. Nope, it’s invidis! And our editorial team doesn’t just specialize in daily news coverage but has long produced a yearly print and PDF publication, formally known as invidis Yearbook. Informally, it’s often been called “the bible of digital signage” among readers …
Brightsign Expands with Series 6 Players, SoCs, and Edge-AI Support June 6, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Brightsign has been a go-to name in digital signage since I don’t know how many years, with its purple media players powering some two million digital signage endpoints worldwide. The San-José-based company has traditionally focused on its hardware, its proprietary BrightsignOS, and maintaining partnerships with other CMS providers through its alliance program. Its own CMS …
Christie Launches No-OS, No-RF Displays at Infocomm June 6, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger While it’s true that many security-sensitive and business-critical environments prefer media players over SoC displays for digital signage, calling SoCs an insecure option would be a bit far-stretched. But Christie is obviously seeing a market opportunity in “non-smart” displays with no SoC and no RF. The US manufacturer is launching an LCD line-up called Secure …
DPAA Announces Speakers and Details for 2024 Canada Summit June 6, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger DPAA is holding its Canada Summit in Toronto on June 11 next week and has now announced the speaker lineup and agenda details. The event is targeted towards the Canadian DooH and Retail Media industry, with speakers coming mostly from the brand and agency side, including: Sabrina LaRosa, Senior Director of Media, Loblaws Neal Bouwmeester, …
U.S. OoH Advertising Hits Record $1.98B in Q1 June 5, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger The Out of Home industry in the U.S. has had its best start to a year ever. According to the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA), OoH network operators generated $1.98 billion in sales in the first quarter of the year. This follows a strong performance last year, when the industry reported $1.96 …
