Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Luis Villafane, Maler March 22, 2017 by Super User Luis Villafane have been email pen pals for years, but I only met him in person for the first time last month in Amsterdam, at ISE. It was a treat, because the guy not only knows the signage business in and out, but is blunt and funny as hell. If you are a regular 16:9 …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Francesco Ziliani, Spinetix March 15, 2017 by Super User SpinetiX has been on the digital signage scene for more than a decade now, and if you are in the business, you may know them as the Swiss guys who market a really nice little aluminum-clad, solid state playback box. They had that 10 years ago, when a lot of signage networks were still going …
100,000 Downloads For 16:9 Podcast March 10, 2017 by Super User The mothership 16:9 podcast is less than a year old but my back-end stats are telling me the 46 episodes to date have been downloaded about 100,000 times in total. When I started, I had no idea what the response might be, but it wasn’t that kind of number. Major podcasts on big issues get …
Projects Podcast Looks At MaxMedia’s Work On AT&T’s San Francisco Flagship March 10, 2017 by Super User The new 16:9 Projects Podcast takes a deep dive look into the flagship AT&T store at 1 Powell Street in beautiful San Francisco. Project host Michael Tutton has a great, detailed interview with Jeff Doud, the executive creative director at Atlanta-based retail experience firm MaxMedia. It has three “chapters” of content: Entertainment, Local Arts & Culture …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jose Avalos, Intel March 8, 2017 by Super User Jose Avalos has been leading Intel’s digital signage practise since 2009 – evangelizing for the use of Intel chipsets and related technologies for the devices that play back content. When he got started, he says Intel was inside about 10 percent of the boxes used in digital signage. Now it’s more like 75 percent, he …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Dan Dawson, Grand Visual March 1, 2017 by Super User The production and creative technology firm Grand Visual does some of the most interesting data-driven creative work you’ll find in the digital signage and digital out of home industry, so I was really happy to learn co-founder Dan Dawson was available at ISE to chat for a few minutes. Dawson is the Chief Creative Technology …
16:9 Projects Podcast: Alex Simionescu Of Float4 On The Amazing Dubai City Walk February 24, 2017 by Super User For this episode, Projects is looking at Dubai’s City Walk, a new outdoor retail shopping concept that FLOAT4, based in Montreal and New York, has brought to life. City Walk incorporates over 100 million pixels of digital content spread across 30 areas, making it one of the largest retail digital deployments in the world. This …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Chris Riegel, Stratacache February 22, 2017 by Super User I have been trying to get Chris Riegel for an in-person interview for almost a year, but the CEO and sole owner of STRATACACHE has been a busy guy in recent months, expanding his business organically, but also through acquisitions of competitors like Scala and Real Digital Media. We couldn’t make it happen when he …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Mike Tippets, Hughes February 15, 2017 by Super User Hughes is one of those big billion-dollar tech companies that have found their way into digital signage in recent years. Most of them come in making noise and exited quietly. But Hughes has stuck around. This week I’m chatting with Mike Tippets, who is Hughes Global Media Solutions Group, working out of Utah but pretty …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: ISE 2017 Bonus Edition February 13, 2017 by Super User This is a bonus edition. I did a pile of sit-down interviews last week in Amsterdam with different execs for full-length podcasts, and you will hear those over the next several weeks. I also did some stand-ups that are already live, with four already up. These are the other four. I normally get these things properly …
