Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Andrew Farah, Density August 10, 2016 by Super User This week, Sixteen:Nine speaks with Andrew Farah, the CEO and one of the founders of Density, a San Francisco-area start-up that’s going at crowd tracking in a different way. Density puts a small sensor at the doorway or doorways leading into a venue or a targeted area,uses infrared beams to measure anonymous movements as people come and …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Florian Rotberg, Invidis August 3, 2016 by Super User This week I’m speaking with Florian Rotberg, the managing director at the Munich-based digital signage consulting and events firm Invidis. Florian talks about the background of his company, and his impressions of the global digital signage market. Rotberg goes into detail about the differences between the North American and European/EMEA market, and the challenges American and …
16:9 Podcast Series, John Wang, IAdea July 27, 2016 by Super User In this episode, John Wang, the CEO of Taipei-based IAdea, talks about the roots of his company, which primarily makes commercial-grade media players and all-in-one devices for the digital signage market. He recalls starting up the business right out of school in Taiwan, and unfortunately timing that startup right when the first Internet bubble burst. Wang …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Randy Pagnan, RP Visuals July 20, 2016 by Super User This week I am speaking with Randy Pagnan, the RP in RP Visual Solutions, an Anaheim, California company that’s in the business of designing and manufacturing the special structures that hold signature digital signage projects in place. In this conversation, done at last month’s InfoComm trade show in Las Vegas, Randy talks about the origins of his company …
16:9 Podcast Series: 21K Downloads, More Episodes On Way July 18, 2016 by Super User Just had a look at the stats and the 16:9 Podcasts series is now past 21,000 downloads. The host site shows far less than that in its count, but way more people pick up the RSS feed via iTunes, Google Play and podcast apps like PocketCast. Counting total downloads is a bit inexact, but 21K …
16:9 Podcasts: Vincent Encontre, Intuilab July 13, 2016 by Super User This week, I am speaking with Vincent Encontre, the CEO of the Toulouse, France-based interactive software firm Intuilab, which has a great product for reducing the time, cost and complications of getting interactive touchscreen projects together. Encontre talks about the company’s roots, servicing companies like Airbus, and how it pivoted into interactive digital. We spend …
16:9 Podcasts: Jennifer Davis, Leyard July 6, 2016 by Super User In this episode, I’m speaking with Jennifer Davis, who is Chief Marketing Officer for Leyard and also the VP of Marketing and Product Strategy for Planar, which is now owned by Leyard. So she’s one busy puppy these days. Jennifer grabbed us a meeting space on the exhibit floor at InfoComm last month, and we …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Two Months And 15,500 Downloads In July 1, 2016 by Super User It’s now been a couple of months since the first episode in the Sixteen:Nine Podcasts series went live, and 11 episodes are now up. The podcast-hosting site shows about 1,400 listens, but that’s a fraction of the real story. The podcasts are up on Google Play and iTunes, and the RSS feed is hooked in …
16:9 Podcasts: Rick Cope, NanoLumens June 29, 2016 by Super User In this episode, I’m speaking with Rick Cope, the founder and CEO of NanoLumens, which makes and markets its own line of unique indoor and outdoor LED displays from its facilities in Atlanta. Rick has a really interesting background, coming out of the US Marines and being in the thick of things during Desert Storm, …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jeremy Gavin, Screenfeed June 22, 2016 by Super User Jeremy Gavin, the founder of Screenfeed, sat down with me in an empty conference room at InfoComm earlier this month. Jeremy runs a Minneapolis company that generates great-looking, ready-made content feeds for digital signage networks. Screenfeed, in many ways, reinvented the whole approach to subscription content – moving the business off scrolling tickers and …
