More DPAA Summit Takeaways: AI Drives Ideas but Humans Define Impact in DooH October 20, 2025 by John Berkovich At this year’s DPAA Global Summit, held last week and covered by Sixteen:Nine, leaders across media, advertising, and technology shared a unified message: the future of digital out-of-home (DooH) belongs to those who merge human creativity with the intelligent use of AI without losing touch with real-world connection. François de Gaspé Beaubien, DPAA Chairman and …
Sharp’s Mark Quiroz: Finding Opportunity in a Turbulent Display Market October 15, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger When Mark Quiroz took charge of Sharp’s display organization for the Americas in November 2024, the mandate was clear: drive growth across the entire portfolio – from LED and LCD to projection and desktop displays. What wasn’t on the agenda was reshaping supply strategies around tariff issues. Yet the renewed trade conflict with China has …
Digital Signage Folks Take Over Google Chrome Offices in NYC October 15, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger The digital signage family cozied up at Google Chrome in NYC on Monday for DSF’s Signage Social, kicking off a hectic week of Digital Signage and DooH events in Midtown. According to our friends at DSF, the turnout was great and the crowd included people from across the digital signage ecosystem, from DooH media networks …
Appspace Names Pete Schmied CEO, Holly Grogan President as Leadership Transition Continues October 6, 2025 by John Berkovich Appspace has promoted Pete Schmied to Chief Executive Officer and Holly Grogan to President, effective immediately. Former CEO Tony DiBenedetto, who led the transition of Appspace to a workspace experience provider over three years ago, as reported by Sixteen:Nine, will remain with the company as Executive Chairman. Schmied, who joined Appspace in 2020 as Chief …
SignageOS Names Former Coates Director Brian Selman VP North America September 3, 2025 by Balthasar Mayer Middleware and RDM specialist SignageOS, originally founded in Europe, has been steadily expanding its footprint in North America. That growth is now reinforced with the appointment of Brian Selman as Vice President of North America. Selman brings deep expertise in digital signage and quick-service restaurants, with a career spanning technology, business strategy, and customer experience. …
AI in Digital Signage: What an AI-Powered CMS Looks Like at Appspace August 29, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger By this point, it’s become loud and clear: companies that have built their businesses around a software ecosystem need to rethink their products and ask one big question—how can AI make this better? One company that’s been wrestling with that question for the past two years is workplace software specialist Appspace. Its Chief Innovation Officer, …
Charity Exception: How SNA’s Badsha Chowdhury Helped Build an Orphanage in Bangladesh August 8, 2025 by Balthasar Mayer We usually don’t write about charity programs from the industry. Not that we don’t like them. But there are a lot of them, and most of them are … repetitive. We acknowledge that these actions and programs are at least admirable, and that they mean a lot to the companies and employees. But that is …
AI in Digital Signage: Intuiface’s “All-In on AI” Approach August 1, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Back in December 2022 – when ChatGPT was first made public – Intuiface was likely the first digital signage software company to begin experimenting and ask itself: How can a chatbot enhance what a CMS can do? We asked Intuiface CEO Mathieu Yerle, who joined the company in the beginning of the year, for an …
Industry Pros Share Most-Used AI Tools: Trey Courtney’s Top 5 July 25, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Asking industry professionals about their favorite AI tools reveals just how fragmented the current AI landscape is. Beyond the major LLMs and their chatbots, preferences seem to vary widely, with people leaning toward niche tools tailored to specific tasks. For example, at retail experience company Mood Media, text-to-speech generation has become a particularly valuable use …
AI in Digital Signage: Lukas Danek on How SignageOS Integrates AI Across Teams July 18, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Some may argue that the digital signage industry has been slow to embrace AI. But that claim doesn’t hold up across the board. In fact, many software vendors are actively experimenting with AI agents and tools to automate workflows for their users. Internally, companies across the industry are also seeing AI completely reshape how their …
