Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Randy Dearborn, MGM Resorts June 15, 2016 by Super User Randy Dearborn has been running digital signage networks since 1993, starting with a skunkworks set-up at Treasure Island in Las Vegas and building that up to a network that covers 1,000s of screens across the MGM Resorts International portfolio. Now he’s Vice President, Multimedia & Guest Technology, and oversees both the low-rise and high-rise screens in …
Up Tomorrow On 16:9 Podcasts: Randy Dearborn Of MGM Resorts June 14, 2016 by Super User Last week I spent some time in Las Vegas with Randy Dearborn, who has been doing digital signage since 1993, since before anyone called it digital signage. He started with a skunkworks operation at Treasure Island and now runs one of the most extensive, diverse and sophisticated networks on the planet, encompassing all the screens …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Viktor Petersson of Screenly June 8, 2016 by Super User Viktor Petersson is kind of “the man” when it comes to making digital signage run on a $45 Raspberry Pi mini PC. For the last four years, Viktor’s company Screenly has been focused on developing and evolving a signage solution specifically for the Raspberry Pi. In this episode of Sixteen:Nine Podcasts, we talk about why he went …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Stu Armstrong of ComQi June 1, 2016 by Super User In this episode of Sixteen:Nine Podcasts, I’m speaking with Stu Armstrong, President of the Americas for ComQi, a CMS software and services company with offices in London, New York and Toronto. Stu talks about the opportunities and challenges of working with the retail sector, and how after many years, signage is getting some serious traction …
Sixteen:Nine Podcast: Neil Willis of Hypersign May 25, 2016 by Super User Neil Willis is the CEO and founder of Hypersign, a digital signage software company located in Greenville, South Carolina. In this Sixteen:Nine Podcasts episode, Neil talks about a long career path that had very humble beginnings – working in the air force in Arkansas and sweeping floors at a big box store on weekends to …
Sixteen:Nine Podcast: Jason Cremins of Signagelive May 18, 2016 by Super User In this Sixteen:Nine podcast episode, I had a chat with Jason Cremins, the founder and CEO of the UK-based firm Signagelive. His company has been one of the very early adopters of emerging technologies that have really changed how digital signage is pulled together and run – from cloud hosting and distribution, to HTML5, to …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts Seeing Healthy Download Numbers After 1st Week May 13, 2016 by Super User The Sixteen:Nine Podcast series just launched a week ago but it’s already doing quite well – with more than 300 downloads off the host pages and more than 1,000 if you lump in other podcast platforms that grab, distribute and play episodes out using the RSS feed. Now … compared to something like Serial or The …
Sixteen:Nine Podcast: Stephen Randall of Monster Media May 11, 2016 by Super User Stephen Randall is the EVP Social and Mobile at the out of home media firm Monster Media. Randall was doing mobile operating systems before they were ever called smart, as a co-founder of Symbian. He then started LocaModa, which was doing visualizations of user-generated content as far back as 2005, before social media was even …
Sixteen:Nine Podcast: Nanxi Liu of Enplug May 6, 2016 by Super User In this episode, I’m chatting with Nanxi Liu, the CEO of Enplug, a Los Angeles-based digital signage CMS company she started with a group of new friends after graduating from Cal-Berkeley, just four years ago.. Nanxi talks about being a Millennial Asian CEO in an industry mostly run by middle-aged white guys, growing a company …
Sixteen:Nine Podcast: Bill Dunn of LG MRI May 6, 2016 by Super User Bill Dunn is the founder and CEO of LG MRI, a suburban Atlanta company focused on producing ultra-reliable, long-lasting outdoor LCD displays. You can see LG MRI product on urban sidewalks, attached to bus shelters and placed around busy outdoor areas like shopping centers and campuses. Dunn, an engineer to the core, talks in this …
