Anders Apelgren On How Visual Art’s Turnkey Digital Signage Offer Is Expanding Beyond Nordics January 26, 2022 by Super User So many companies in the digital signage ecosystem are all about the technology, still, so it’s interesting to come across a tech company that functions as a turnkey provider, but leads with the creative aspect. It’s even in the name – Visual Art. The Swedish company started roughly 25 years ago, and has steadily expanded …
Dennis Hickey On Why SNA Display Not Only Makes And Markets LED Displays, It Bankrolls Them January 19, 2022 by Super User I spoke recently with a consulting firm that was looking at the outdoor LED space, and trying to wrap its collective heads around who the LED leaders were in North America. They rattled off a bunch of vendor names, but did not mention SNA Displays. I sorted them out, noting how the company was a …
Brady Haag On How Project Content Simplifies Messaging For Roadside And Building LED Screens January 12, 2022 by Super User In the last two or three years, I’ve sensed a big shift in the understanding and execution of big LED displays – with way more focus on content than in the past. For a long time, most of these big jobs were so focused on the size and pitch of the screens they kind of …
Why Some Retailers And Brands Are Downsizing Screens, With Instorescreen CEO Henrik Andersson December 15, 2021 by Super User Note: This will be the last Sixteen:Nine podcast until the new year. Retail experts have long spoke about the so-called zero moment of truth – that time in bricks and mortar stores when shoppers are in the aisles and making the decision about which product they’re going to pull off the shelf and put in …
Toni Viñals On His How And Why Spain’s Netipbox Technologies Spun Out Nsign.TV As Its Own Digital Signage Platform December 8, 2021 by Super User The Spanish-based solutions provider and integrator Netipbox Technologies has been providing AV and IT-driven digital signage solutions in that region, and across southern Europe, for more than a decade. In recent years, the company has rounded out its offer by developing and marketing its own software solution. That platform got to a level of maturity …
Niko Sagiadinos Of SMILControl On Why And How SMIL Fits In Digital Signage December 1, 2021 by Super User Going back roughly a decade, there were a couple of digital signage vendors talking up and marketing their capabilities for a technology called SMIL. That’s short for Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, but you probably knew that. OK, probably not. It’s a bit like HTML, in that it is a programming language developed and supported by the same global …
Saurabh Gupta On Ultraleap’s Push To Bring Touchless Interaction To DOOH And Digital Signage November 24, 2021 by Super User If you have been in the industry for a while, you’ll maybe remember all the excitement around using gesture technology to control screens. That was followed by the letdown of how crappy and feeble these gesture-driven touchless working examples turned out to be. Like just about everything, the technology and the ideas have got a …
COO Blake Sabatinelli Relates How Atmosphere TV Streams 50+ Channels Of Content To Digital Signs In 14,000 Venues November 17, 2021 by Super User Screens in bars, restaurants and all kinds of venues have been part of the mix for decades, and there have been all kinds of different takes on what to put on those screens that not only entertains and occupies guests, but also has tangible business impacts. Straight-up digital signage solutions give venue operators the ability …
Florian Rotberg of Invidis Details The State Of Digital Signage In EU, Middle East, And Rise Of Green Signage November 10, 2021 by Super User The Munich-based digital signage consultancy invidis has been doing an annual yearbook publication for the past decade that is something of an industry bible for the European and Middle Eastern markets, and with each annual edition it gets a little more detailed and broader in its scope. The company does a German version and another …
Bonus Podcast: Audio From Last Week’s Tortured Terminology Roundtable At InfoComm November 4, 2021 by Super User A virtual roundtable panel run last week during the InfoComm trade show pulled three Daves, a Kim and a Chris together to talk about the use and abuse of technology terms in digital signage and pro AV. Run as a version of the Digital Signage Federation’s periodic Coffee and Controversy series, the panel included Kim …
