John McCauley Relates How Velocity – An IT Managed Services – Found Its Way Into Running And Selling Digital OOH Networks November 3, 2021 by Super User More and more traditional integrators and IT services companies are finding their way into the digital signage industry, but I can’t recall seeing one of them getting seriously into the media side of business … until now. A well-established IT managed services company based near Toledo, Ohio – called Velocity – is not only providing …
No Podcast … Again (sigh) October 20, 2021 by Super User No podcast this week, for the second week in a row … but that’s not because we’ve stopped doing them. First, we had interviews postponed. Then we had technical issues – like my online recording platform going sideways JUST as I was trying to record. Then we had to give up on an interview because …
How TrilbyTV Has A Different Angle On Digital Signage For Schools October 6, 2021 by Super User I am a huge believer in digital signage software and solutions companies that narrowly define their vertical market and then go after it, as opposed to the many companies out there that say, in effect, we do digital signage. Those kind of general offers can be deadly, I think, when there is sooo much competition. …
AVIXA CEO Dave Labuskes On InfoComm’s Prospects And How Digital Signage Fits With His Organization September 22, 2021 by Super User There is a whole pile of back seat driving happening lately in the pro AV and digital signage communities about how to run a trade show in the COVID-19 era, and much of the focus has squarely been on Dave Labuskes, the CEO of AVIXA, which runs InfoComm and co-owns the even larger trade show …
Publicis Sapient’s Jackie Walker On The Value Prop, ROI And How-Tos Of QSR Digital Signage September 15, 2021 by Super User I’ve yet to meet Jackie Walker in person, but in our chats over the phone and video, she’s quickly impressed me with her knowledge, insights and enthusiasm for digital signage. Many of the people I’ve dealt with at big media companies speak an unfamiliar, very buzz-phrasey language that I barely grasp, but Jackie works for …
Podcast: Are Kiosks And Readers Keys To Making Vaccine Passports Viable? September 8, 2021 by Super User Super-super busy right now and I kinda mostly forgot to get a new podcast episode together for this shortened Labor Day week, but there is a lot of talk out there right now about vaccine passports, so I am re-upping the most current episode, which is all about that. There’s been a lot of talk …
The Opportunity And Security Challenge Of Using Kiosks To Read And Process Vaccine Passports September 1, 2021 by Super User There’s been a lot of talk about vaccine passports as the numbers of fully vaccinated people have risen in many to most first world countries, and venues from restaurants to giant sports stadiums have started talking about requiring proof of being jabbed as a requirement of admission. But how is that done efficiently and securely? …
The Hows and The Wows of The AT&T Discovery District, With Gensler Designers Behind It August 25, 2021 by Super User The AT&T Discovery District in downtown Dallas is one of the more ambitious experiential digital projects out there – in the U.S. or globally – with a big reason being the focus from the inception on coming up with something that was more than just the technology circus coming to town. Telecoms giant AT&T engaged …
Five Years After Buying Scala, Chris Riegel Talks About Whether He Hit A Goal Of Making It Great Again August 18, 2021 by Super User It’s now been five years since Stratacache acquired the CMS software company Scala, which had kind of devolved from the digital signage industry’s dominant player to just one of many options. When Stratacache CEO Chris Riegel did the deal, there were lots of people wondering what might happen. Was he buying the company for its …
Doug Lusted On How AdStash Makes Essentially Free, Ad-Based Digital Signage Work In The SMB Market August 11, 2021 by Super User Much has changed through the years in digital signage and digital out of home, but one thing that’s been pretty constant is how small businesses like the technology when they find out about it … but don’t want to pay for it. Doug Lusted has seen and heard that for many years, having founded a …
