Ravi Bail Of PiSignage On Focusing His Firm’s CMS On Raspberry Pi November 27, 2019 by Super User The Raspberry Pi micro PC has been on the market for several years now, and is in its 4th generation. A handful of companies have developed CMS software applications for the Pi – some I’d say more successfully than others. One that’s now been around for five-plus years, and built up both a mature platform …
Stephen Gottlich, On Why Gable Is All About Visual Solutions And Digital Signage November 20, 2019 by Super User I have heard some people in this industry starting to describe what they do as visual solutions, as opposed to digital signage. I’m not sure that really fits in all cases, but it certainly does for Gable, a Baltimore-area company that’s been doing analog signs of all kinds for four decades. About 10 years ago, …
Daniel Black Of Glass-Media On The Resurgence Of Window And Retail Projection November 13, 2019 by Super User Projection on window film is one of those things that I thought had come and gone from digital signage, with too many technical challenges to make the idea really workable. But projection is having a comeback, and arguably the company doing the most with it for retail and campaign-based marketing is a scrappy little startup …
Trey Courtney Details How Mood Media Delivers Sensory Experiences In Retail November 6, 2019 by Super User There’s a decent chance that when you walk into a retailer in a developed country, and you hear music or some sort of in-store audio playing, that’s Mood Media. The company is in more than half a million subscriber locations in a 100-plus countries delivering in-store media solutions. While that started with music, it was …
Listen To The Conversation From Coffee And Controversy 2019 October 30, 2019 by Super User A couple of weeks back I was in New York for the annual Digital Signage Federation Coffee and Controversy event, which I moderated. I was able to grab audio last year and post as a podcast, and this year we managed the same. The audio is OK, at best, but you should be able to …
Maris Ensing On The Mad Science Behind Mad Systems October 23, 2019 by Super User I wouldn’t want the job of trying to boil down what Mad Systems does to an elevator pitch, unless it was a very tall building with a very slow elevator. Based in Orange County, California, Mad Systems is technically an AV system designer and integrator, but these are not the guys you’d hire to put …
IV Dickson On Why SageNet Expanded Its IT Business Into Digital Signage October 16, 2019 by Super User It’s now really common that businesses of all sizes and types who decide to deploy some sort of digital signage network look to a solutions provider who will not only help put it in, but help the client go from the idea stage all the way through to ongoing operations. Effectively, they’re outsourcing the whole …
Matt Schmitt On Why Retail-centric Reflect Got Into Advertising Software October 9, 2019 by Super User Reflect is one of the longest running companies in the digital signage sector – operating out of Dallas since 2001. The company built up its CMS software business largely in retail, but in early 2017 did something of a pivot into ad scheduling and targeting. I wondered, when I first got walked through what’s called …
Daniel Griffin Of Userful Talks Video Walls And AV Over Networks October 2, 2019 by Super User Like a lot of people in the digital signage industry, I tend to think about video walls in terms of the display hardware, and what’s running on those big beautiful screens. I know precious little about what’s happening behind the wall to ensure it all looks good. Userful has been making waves for a few …
AUO CEO Paul Peng On How His Display Giant Plays In Digital Signage September 25, 2019 by Super User I was in Taiwan recently for a trade show called Touch Taiwan, and managed to grab 20 minutes with Paul Peng, the Chairman and CEO of display manufacturing giant AU Optronics. AUO is based in Taiwan, with its main office about an hour south of Taipei in the manufacturing city of Hsinchu. The company has …
