AI in Digital Signage: Jason Cremins on What CMS Companies Shouldn’t Sleep On July 9, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger The idea that digital signage could exist without AI has faded quickly in the past couple of years. The question is no longer if AI should be integrated but where to start. Generative AI, in particular, has made its way into nearly every part of an organization – from back-office operations to marketing and product …
Screencloud’s Mark McDermott Wins CEO of the Year at SaaS Award Show June 26, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Screencloud CEO Mark McDermott has been named CEO of the Year at the Tekpon Awards – not an event we’ve come across before, but one that reportedly drew around 1,000 SaaS and AI executives to Bucharest, Romania. Tekpon, a platform that intends to help businesses find the right software and AI tools, organizes these events …
Ruth Fornell, Poppulo-CEO: “The Best Year in Recent History” June 10, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Poppulo serves half of the Fortune 100 companies, making it the leading digital signage provider in the enterprise segment. Today’s brand was formed five years ago through the merger of digital signage solution provider Four Winds Interactive with Poppulo, an employee communications platform. In April, invidis’s Florian Rotberg spoke with CEO Ruth Fornell about its …
That’s It For Me Folks … But Not For Sixteen:Nine! May 23, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is my last regular post on Sixteen:Nine, more than 11,000 posts and 400+ podcasts after I started doing this thing, on a lark, back in early 2006. It’s time to slow down, so I’m now riding off into the sunset … albeit on a lawn mower. The pic is AI’d. I couldn’t prompt it …
DSF Networking Event Set For Next Week In Detroit May 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes The next Digital Signage Federation networking event – called a DSF Mix & Mingle – is a week today in the great city of Detroit, in the Greektown district. The event is at the Hollywood Casino at Greektown, in the Level 2 Club. It starts at 3:30 PM. The DSF likes to pair the cocktail …
Industry Golf Tourney Set For Just Ahead Of InfoComm April 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes If you are going to InfoComm in June, and play golf, an increasingly formalized outing is back on for people in the digital signage ecosystem. Industry veteran Kevin Cosbey is again organizing a golf day just head of a big trade show or industry event – with the 2nd Annual Velasea + Snap Install, Inc. …
Sad News: Cardiac Arrest Takes PPDS Exec Martijn van der Woude April 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes More sad news about someone in our industry: Martijn van der Woude, VP Global Business Development and Marketing of PPDS, passed away Monday due to a cardiac arrest. PPDS, aka Philips, says in a statement that van der Woude was: A colleague, a dear friend, and a true business leader, Martijn has been an intrinsic, …
Ticketing Starts (And Likely Ends) Tomorrow For XUSC Mixer At InfoComm April 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes Several emails have been coming in asking about plans for a Sixteen:Nine Mixer at InfoComm, including sponsorship requests, but I am both sorry and happy to report that there are no plans for a mixer in Orlando. Sorry because people enjoy them. Happy because planning and executing mixers is a pile of work. But there …
The Digital Signage Ecosystem Has At Least 1,200 Companies, New Directory Suggests April 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes I have gone down the path two or three times of trying to build up a database of all of the companies in the digital signage ecosystem, starting with grand plans but then getting distracted and leaving the things dormant. So I was pleased and impressed to read of a directory with some 1,200 validated …
Megapixel Co-Founder Keith Harrison Has Passed Away April 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes Really unfortunate news out of the Los Angeles area – with word that a much respected LED pioneer has passed away. Keith Harrison was a co-founder and the COO of Megapixel, most known for its video wall processing technology. He was also, with co-founder Jeremey Hochman, behind the development and launch of the super-sleek, architecture-focused …
