PJSC Skeds May 11 Session Taking Pulse Of Digital OOH Industry April 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes The investment banking and advisory firm Peter J. Solomon Company is doing a webinar in a couple of weeks taking a look at the state of the Digital OOH industry. Called Pulse of the Industry: DOOH, the Wednesday, May 11th at 11 a.m. ET session will be led by Verifone Media General Manager Paul Jankauskas …
Screenfeed’s Gavin Mourns Loss Of Friend And Mentor Prince April 21, 2016 by Dave Haynes The sudden passing today of rock and pop icon Prince is particularly upsetting to Screenfeed founder Jeremy Gavin. While there will be countless people in this industry who were big fans, and will mourn Prince’s unexpected death, Gavin was a friend and Prince a mentor to him. Gavin was the art director at Prince’s Paisley Park …
Savannah From Savannah Earns DSF Bursary For Women March 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes Savannah from Savannah has won the first Geri Wolff Scholarship Award handed out by the Digital Signage Federation – an effort to encourage more young women to get into the industry. Savannah McNulty, a third-year graphic design student at the Savannah College Art & Design in Georgia, gets $2,000 from the fund – which was …
Christie Hires Blackberry’s Ex Head Of Innovation To Run Software Team March 23, 2016 by Dave Haynes It’s very logical to think of Christie as a display hardware company, but if you stop and think about it, you realize it takes solid software to make those projectors and display cubes and LCDs and LEDs all run properly. The company has announced it has hired an ex-Blackberry guy to be its director of solutions software. …
Pix: Preset Group DSE 2016 Mixer In Las Vegas March 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes Ok, back at World HQ after DSE and a mini-vacation three hours northeast of Vegas ay Zion National Park. One word review: Amazing. I arranged for a local guy to run around at the mixer last week and grab shots of the venue and people. He was no pro, but he was family of a …
Preset Mixer Update: Name Badges Printed And In February 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes The name badges for the sold-out Preset Mixer have arrived, and next we’ll just slap on all the names and companies labels my little Dymo printer has spat out. In past years, we’ve handed out drink tickets, which has turned into a bit of a problem controlling how many tickets were out there and arbitrating …
Video: ISE 2016 Interview With DailyDOOH February 12, 2016 by Dave Haynes Here’s a video (below) of the chat I had the other day with Adrian Cotterill, who I found out also has a blog about digital signage, called DailyDOOH. Who knew? He did a stack of interviews at a micro-set sput together at the head of the NEC booth at ISE. That’s a big NEC fine pixel …
Sixteen:Nine Turns 10 February 5, 2016 by Dave Haynes I started this blog 10 years ago today. Thank you readers and subscribers. The numbers have really climbed in the past two years as the industry has started to mature and settle in. Thank you to the guest writers who help keep 16:9 fresh with new ideas and perspectives. More guest posts are always welcomed. …
DSF Names MGM’s Dearborn As New Chairman; Adds To Board January 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Federation has announced its 2016 executives, as well as the elected broad of directors. Randy Dearborn, who runs MGM Resorts International’s many different digital sign installs, is the 2016 Chairman and Ken Goldberg, CEO of Real Digital Media, has been sent to the sunny porch out back where they put past chairmans. …
Worth Watching: Select Videos Up From Four Winds’ Forward Conference January 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes Four Winds Interactive did a very nice, polished job last fall with Forward, a two-day conference in hometown Denver that went well beyond the typical software company user conference. It was education instead of indoctrination. I went to it, and learned a lot more than what was on the company’s product roadmap. The marketing department put …
