Sixteen:Nine Podcasts – Mark Boidman, Peter J Solomon Company October 11, 2017 by Super User If you want to get a sense of what’s really going on with the digital out of home media business and the technology ecosystem that feeds into it, you need to pay attention to Mark Boidman. That’s his gig – looking at the opportunities and risks of the business, as a partner running the marketing …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Neil Farr, Acquire Digital October 4, 2017 by Super User Being a best-kept secret in an industry can be deadly for a company, but it’s worked out OK for Neil Farr and his Leicester, England company Working Solutions, which trades under the brand Acquire Digital. For 20 years, the company has been developing a meaty, diverse software platform that will do all the core aspects …
16:9 Projects Podcast: Digital Signage Across A Northern City September 29, 2017 by Danica Trapara This isn’t a project that’s large in terms of pixels or screen counts; its impact is in its scale. The Canadian city of Sudbury is about a four-hour drive north of Toronto. With a population a little less than Jackson, Mississippi, it is the 7th largest municipality by area in Canada. Capital Networks has been …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Laura Davis-Taylor, High Street September 27, 2017 by Super User Laura Davis-Taylor is a really well-known and much-loved expert when it comes to how digital fits in retail. She was a consultant for many years, but more recently has worked for some very large agencies – dealing with equally large retail and brand accounts. Now she’s back doing the consulting thing, by her choice. She’s …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: David Labuskes, AVIXA September 20, 2017 by Super User I was in the Washington, DC area last week for what turned out to be the rebranding of Infocomm as AVIXA – a loose acronym for the Audiovisual and Integrated Experience Association. The trade association had invited me, and a pile of other trade journalists, for a press conference and follow-ups about … something. They …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Peter Fahlman, Telemetry September 13, 2017 by Super User A lot of companies run by creatives and software developers have found their way into the digital signage business on the backs of projects they delivered, but I wouldn’t really see that happening with a company that’s all about online payments. That’s exactly, though, the back story on Telemetry, a Vancouver, BC start-up that grew …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: David Douglas-Beveridge, SmartContent.TV September 6, 2017 by Super User If you spend any time clicking around the internet, you are very quickly going to bump into a website that is using a slider – a piece of browser functionality that shifts text, images and video in and out of a web page. The most heavily used slider out there comes from a German company …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Zach Klima, WaitTime August 30, 2017 by Super User If your digital signage screens are there to make something faster, better or easier for the people who are looking at them, you are doing good things. That’s the idea behind a Detroit start-up called WaitTime – a digital signage and smartphone app solution that uses cameras and artificial intelligence software to give people at …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Florian Kall, LightnTec August 23, 2017 by Super User LED billboards and signs are now commonplace, and not just in Times Square and other landmark locations in big cities. But putting in LED has its challenges. Cost is the obvious one, but there are other issues, like the engineering needed to ensure a structure can handle all the weight involved with typical LED boards. …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Curt Thornton, Provision August 16, 2017 by Super User Hologram is up there with artificial intelligence as one of the most abused terms in tech these days – with all kinds of stuff being labelled as holograms when they’re nothing more than reflections or projections. Provision has been marketing what it calls 3D holographic media for a bunch of years, and while purists might …
