Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: James Fine, Telecine June 21, 2017 by Super User James Fine has been around the digital signage ecosystem since the earliest days. He founded Telecine in the mid-80s to do high-end video production for the corporate sector. By the mid-90s, he was getting into signage, putting networked screens in Quebec casinos. We talk about the early days of the business – like spending $25,000 …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts – Eric Henry, Tightrope Media Systems June 14, 2017 by Super User Tightrope Media Systems has been around the digital signage business for 20 years, and if you’ve heard of the company, there’s a decent chance you thought, like me, that the Minneapolis firm was a broadcast software company that also did a signage CMS. Turns out it was the other way around, and Tightrope started as a digital …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Rick Mills, Creative Realities (CRI) June 7, 2017 by Super User If you have followed the digital signage business for a few years, you have probably seen stories about the financial tailspins of a set of companies that eventually got blended together as Creative Realities, or CRI for short. Sitting in the cheap seats watching it all go down, I’m sure I wasn’t the only one …
16:9 Projects Podcast: Intersection’s CSO On The Massive LinkNYC Smart City Rollout June 2, 2017 by Danica Trapara This episode we’re speaking with Dave Etherington, who is CSO of Intersection, one of the companies responsible for LinkNYC. In 2014, New York City set out to overhaul their payphone infrastructure. The result is LinkNYC, which provides anyone in the city with free phone calls to anywhere in the U.S., free wifi, local information and some …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Susie Opare-Abetia, Wovenmedia May 31, 2017 by Super User I had a great chat recently with Susie Opare-Abetia, the CEO and Founder of Wovenmedia. Her company does all the heavy-lifting work to connect digital signage and place-based networks with video from major content producers like TV networks, movie studios and pro sports. If you are in a big U.S. retailer or in a health …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: David Mou, Pilot TV May 24, 2017 by Super User I was introduced to Taiwan’s Pilot TV and the company’s product evangelist David Mou by some of the folks who invited me over to Beijing recently for a speech at InfoComm China. Mou wanted to tell me about his company and thought it would make good podcast material. I tried to dodge that, because I’m …
16:9 Projects Podcast: How Buffalo Wild Wings Engages Guests With User-Generated Content May 19, 2017 by Danica Trapara This episode we talk to Vlad Edelman, CEO of HEROFI, who won a Gold medal Apex Award in the Food & Beverages category at DSE 2017 for their work with Buffalo Wild Wings. Although Buffalo Wild Wings is the largest sports bar chain in the world, operating over 1,200 restaurants, they were facing some challenges …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Rodolfo Saccoman, CEO/Founder of AdMobilize May 17, 2017 by Super User There’s nothing all that new about digital signage networks using video analytics to get some sense of what’s happening with audiences near screens, but AdMobilize is not just another company peddling the same old stuff. I spoke with CEO and Founder Rodolfo Saccoman about a product and service he says rolls up a wide range …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Lee Summers, CEO of Reflect May 10, 2017 by Super User Lee Summers is only a few months into his job as CEO of Reflect, but neither the industry or the company were unfamiliar when he took over at the company’s Dallas head office earlier this year. In an unusual twist, he’d been on the other side of the table, as one of Reflect’s highest profile …
16:9 Projects Podcast: Movilok On La Fonda Barranco May 5, 2017 by Danica Trapara Movilok won the DSE 2017 Silver APEX Award in the Event Venues & Hospitality category for their work at the hotel La Fonda Barranco. The traditional hotel, in the heart of the very old city of Jerez, is the first certified hotel for the hearing impaired in Spain. Even though the installation is just a …
