How Kitcast’s Aggressive Use Of Social Media Has Helped Build Its Digital Signage Brand July 17, 2019 by Super User If you go to any industry trade shows and follow social media activity around them, you’ll no doubt have noticed A LOT of tweeting by a company called Kitcast. They’ve done a very effective job of using social media to create both buzz and booth traffic, and Kitcast staffers were back at it recently at …
Tightrope’s J.J. Parker On His Digital Signage Journey From Video Bulletin Boards To Apple TVs July 10, 2019 by Super User Tightrope Media Systems is one of the oldest companies in the digital signage ecosystem, with roots tracing back to 1997 in Minneapolis. Co-founder J.J. Parker bought a stack of books and taught himself coding to come up with what was then called a video bulletin board system for local schools. They managed to sell a …
Podcast Production Being Reworked – Short Hiatus June 18, 2019 by Super User If you listen regularly to the 16:9 Podcasts, you may have noticed some hiccups with the production and release timing of some recent episodes. Some have been late and others have had minor boo-boos or levels that weren’t uniform. This has been pointed out to the guy who has been doing the sound engineering for …
Ian Dallimore On Growing Digital Inside Lamar Advertising June 12, 2019 by Super User In the out of home space, Lamar Advertising is huge. The Baton Rouge-based media company is in 160 metro areas in the US, and has more than 3,300 roadside digital billboards. The company is steadily adding more digital, notably in environments like airports. Lamar just lit up an impressive and expensive network inside the baggage …
Broadsign CEO Burr Smith Provides Thinking And Back-Story Behind Recent M&A Moves June 5, 2019 by Super User I’m kinda breaking my own podcast rule here by interviewing someone for a second time, but Burr Smith has been a busy guy lately – buying companies and fighting patent trolls. I spoke with the CEO and owner of Broadsign a couple of years ago, but it was more than time for an update chat …
Fab Stanghieri On Why Canada’s Biggest Cinema Company Is In Digital Signage May 22, 2019 by Super User Canadians all know Cineplex as the dominant movie theater chain in that country, and the Toronto-based company has also been expanding its reach, in recent years, into other related lines of business. Cineplex now has entertainment-centric restaurant-bars, is bringing Top Golf into Canada, sells out of home media and runs a thriving digital media group …
Dan Hagen Of 10Net, On Building Digital Signage In The Pacific Northwest May 15, 2019 by Super User Dan Hagen is a relatively young guy, and a bit of an Energizer Bunny. I know of him as the 10net guy from Vancouver, but I was surprised to learn in a conversation that he has been involved in digital signage since before it was called digital signage. He was a funding founder of Mercury …
Robert Heise On GDS Sets Itself Apart In An Increasingly Crowded Outdoor Display Field May 8, 2019 by Super User Most people think about northern Italy for wine, food, fashion and beautiful scenery, but it’s also home to some well-established technology companies like Global Display Solutions, or GDS. The company has been around for decades and built up a very solid business for rugged, industrial-grade displays for use-cases like bank ATMs. GDS expanded into digital …
Neeraj Pendse Talks About Elo’s Deep History In Touch, And How To Make Interactive Truly Work May 1, 2019 by Super User Elo has been doing touchscreens for 40 years – way, way before marketers started cooking up phrases like customer engagement technology. Over that time, the company has shipped more than 25 million units. So Elo knows touch, and interactive. Based in Silicon Valley, the company has in the last few years made a pretty big …
From The Podcast Archive: Moment Factory’s Creative Director On Doing Big Visual Projects Around The Globe April 24, 2019 by Super User My ability to record podcasts went sideways 2-3 weeks ago, with some weird glitch that saw my online recording platform just flat refusing to acknowledge I had a microphone plugged in. Very puzzling, but after lots of trial and error and poking around, I found the issue. Check a box and a couple of weeks …
