Election Over, Digital Signage Won, Nothing Else Was Second November 21, 2013 by Super User There are numerous things that make me crazy about this space, but two of the biggest are people STILL using the circa 1996 Content Is King thing like it was new and profound, and people STILL trying to force new names on an industry that totally settled on one years ago. So when I see …
Yes, But WTF Do You Do? October 29, 2013 by Super User One of the things that I had to self-excise from my Your Baby’s Ugly presentation last week was a discussion on how companies tend to market themselves in this sector. So many get caught up playing Buzzword Bingo that it’s increasingly tough to cut through the crap and sort out what the companies actually do …
Your Baby’s Ugly October 25, 2013 by Super User Here’s an audio-backed version of the presentation I did at the October 2013 DailyDOOH Digital Signage Investor Conference in NYC. It’s about 25 minutes but moves along nicely. Enjoy (I hope).
Apple’s Gorgeous, Digital Signage-lite Stores September 10, 2013 by Super User Note: Revised based on reader comments … Look around the retail landscape and you see no end of design directly influenced by Apple’s minimalist stores. They’re beautiful. The state of the retail design art. And they have little or no digital signage. There are iPads on tables that could be called digital signage (I …
Innovation Scarcity And The Interactive Threat September 10, 2013 by Super User There haven’t been a lot of posts here lately – in part because I’m busy making a buck but more so because most of what I am seeing and hearing about lately generates a bored “Yeah, whatever …” I get word of partnerships. Little software deals made out to seem big. Job changes. Very incremental …
If A VP Sales Is Hired, Does Anyone Care? Nope. July 31, 2013 by Super User I was trading emails Tuesday with an industry friend, and explaining why I wasn’t covering an announcement from his company. It wasn’t personal, I said. I just didn’t think it was all that interesting, as news goes, and doubted I was alone in that perspective. It got me thinking about reader patterns, and the type …
In Digital Signage, Uptime Rules July 29, 2013 by Super User There is a fast casual restaurant on the departures level at Oliver Tambo airport in Johannesburg, South Africa that I have walked past at least a half dozen times in the last three months. The menu boards, any time I looked, never showed more than floating screen savers. On a video wall I was just …
Trolls At The Gates: Where’s The DSF Or DSA? July 10, 2013 by Super User Affectionately-named patent trolls have been around this sector for a few years now. I get emails and phone calls periodically from software execs asking what I know about patent troll activity in this sector. I tell them I am, mercifully, not running a software company like them, so I have not had the pleasure of …
Impressions Of Digital Signage In Big City South Africa May 26, 2013 by Super User Back home in Canada after more than three weeks working with a large client in South Africa. I’d never been, but will definitely go back. Reason 1: Terrific people. Reason 2: Amazing sights and experiences, within minutes of a mega-city like Johannesburg. Reason 3: Unrest and uncertainty has beat the crap out of the currency, …
Menu Boards: Would You Like A Side Of FUD With That? April 30, 2013 by Super User Pretty much anyone I talk to, who would know, says the digital menu board market is booming. Fast food and fast casual restaurant operators “get” the business proposition that the collective platform pay for itself in efficiency and flexibility and sales promotion lifts. Companies like McDonald’s, Burger King and Tim Horton’s haven’t invested millions in …
