Brian Nutt Explains How Adificial Automates Creative Production, Potentially For Pennies Per Ad Spot December 7, 2022 by Super User There have been a few companies that have come along in recent years offering a platform that used templates, image library and stored data to largely automate the production of videos – but few if any of them had their heads wrapped around how that might work with and for digital signage networks. A Louisville, …
Mergers And Acquisitions In Digital Signage: DSE 2022 Mixer Panel December 1, 2022 by Super User Ahead of the networking mixer that Sixteen:Nine pulls together during DSE week in Las Vegas, we tried a panel discussion in the hour before the actual mixer started. I zeroed in on mergers and acquisitions as the topic, as I am aware of numerous companies either selling or buying. To get a sense of what’s …
Hologram Expert Daniel Smalley On Why We’ll Colonize Mars Before We See Displays That Really Are Holograms November 23, 2022 by Super User I’m not sure why seeing all the product references lately to holograms makes me a little crazy, apart from the simple fact that none of them really meet the definition. It’s not like that’s the one term marketers abuse. We’ve seen bezel-less displays that had bezels. MicroLED displays that aren’t actually microLED. And on and …
Podcast: My Thoughts About The Return Of DSE November 16, 2022 by Super User I already have an interview in the can, so to speak, for next week, but I wanted to do a short podcast that just features me droning on … to provide some thoughts and ideas about the return of DSE. This is the transcript, but if you want to hear me blabber on for about …
How 65cubed Says It Can Make LED Displays Look Better, Last Longer And Use Less Energy November 9, 2022 by Super User 65cubed makes and markets a technology solution that has the triple benefit of making commercial displays, like big roadside LED boards, look better, last longer, and still use substantially less energy . The company has a small box that plugs in between the media player and display controller box of a display set-up, using a …
How Cloudshelf Simplifies Bridging E-Commerce To In-Store Screens For SMB Retailers November 2, 2022 by Super User A UK start-up called Cloudshelf has come up with an accessible, heavily-automated and simple platform that helps small, mainly local retailers offer the same kinds of interactive display tools in their stores as deeper-pocketed and more heavily resourced major retailers. The company has written code that crawls and analyzes local retail sites on Shopify’s vast …
How DOOH Network Barvanna Uses DIRECTV As Its Distribution Channel In Bars, Other Venues October 26, 2022 by Super User There are many, many stories of ad-based digital signage networks starting up in bars and restaurants, but many and perhaps most of those stories have bad endings – because of the high cost of the hardware that needed to go in and the limited ability to manage that tech. A company called Barvanna is taking …
Erik DeGiorgi Explains How Software Is Key To His Digital Signage Hardware Company’s Future October 19, 2022 by Super User Mediavue Systems has the somewhat unique experience of being a PC manufacturer that started in digital signage, versus any number of companies that had personal or industrial computers with the dimensions, specs and pricing that met the industry’s needs and desires at the time. One hell of a lot has changed in the intervening 15 …
DSE’s Sandberg And Drain Lay Out Prospects And Plans For Next Month’s DSE Reboot October 12, 2022 by Super User Digital Signage Experience is coming up in four weeks and I suspect a lot of people are very curious about how the long-running show will be rebooted by its new owners Questex. I certainly am, as I had long thought the old DSE was a dead trade show walking, and that something different was needed. …
No Podcast Next Two Weeks September 21, 2022 by Super User I’m taking time off, so there is no fresh podcast interview this week or next. That’s the good news. The possibly also good news is that these podcasts have been coming out weekly for six years, so there’s an archive. If you are hungry for knowledge, or need a sleep aid, there are 300 or …
