How Cecoceco Creates Active Wall Finishes With LED And 3D Printing December 14, 2023 by Super User I have written and blabbered away about how LED technology is maturing to a level that it is becoming a design consideration for architects and the people who create the look and feel of built spaces. But that thinking always assumed that clever creative could make the black surface of a big video wall, loaded …
BudSense’s David Thomas On Why His Start-Up Built Its Own Digital Signage Solution For Cannabis Retailing December 8, 2023 by Super User When cannabis started being legalized in US states like Colorado, and more recently across Canada, it struck me that it was a very interesting new vertical for digital signage companies to chase – because it was a greenfields industry that had retail environments offering up products wholly unfamiliar to a lot of the people walking …
Sebastian Kryh Relates How Sweden’s Dise Focuses On Driving And Delivering Retail Experience November 28, 2023 by Super User Dise is an acronym for Digital In Store Experience, and that nicely sums up what the Swedish software firm Dise is all about. Around for 20 years now, the company is heavily focused on a retail-centric communications platform sold through solutions providers and other partners in its channel. Now everybody and their sister identifies retail …
Dave Stewart Relates How Design Huddle Takes The Grunt Work Out Of Motion Graphic Design November 14, 2023 by Super User Everybody who is active and experienced in the digital signage space knows the big evergreen challenge for solutions providers and end-users is content production – keeping programming on screens fresh and relevant, but also attractive. A lot of companies in the ecosystem – and not just the software guys – have some degree of template …
Loop TV CEO Jon Niermann On Growing A Streaming TV For Business Service To 71K+ Screens October 30, 2023 by Super User Bars and restaurants have long been a targeted venue for digital OOH media start-ups, the attraction being scale, dwell time and lots of products and services that could be put in front of people sitting around having a drink or three. But there’s been a lot of roadkill through the years, because selling in to …
Gil Matzliah Of Novisign On His Israeli CMS Company’s Roots And Growth, And Operating In Wartime October 19, 2023 by Super User I bumped into Gil Matzliah at a conference this summer, and told the software executive we were long overdue to do a podcast about what’s happening with his company, Novisign. We finally nailed down a date and time, and as it turned out, it was just days after the horrendous violence that broke out in …
Audio: DSF Cocktails and Controversy, NYC 2023 – AI In Digital Signage October 13, 2023 by Super User The opening seconds sound a little scratchy and distorted, probably because I was talking more loudly than I needed to, but the majority of the audio from Monday night’s Cocktails and Controversy event sounds pretty good. I have uploaded the file to my podcast platform, so that folks who couldn’t make it to the Digital …
Korbyt CTO George Clopp On Going Big On AI-Driven Digital Signage Long Before ChatGPT September 19, 2023 by Super User What if you could use AI to make digital signage screen content relentlessly relevant? That’s the premise and promise of what Korbyt calls Machine Learning Broadcast, new capabilities in the Dallas-based software firm’s CMS platform. Using computer vision and machine learning, the idea is that if the platform can get a sense of what’s making …
Squirrels CEO Andrew Gould On How Ditto Turns Screen-Sharing Tech Into Digital Signage September 12, 2023 by Super User A lot of technology companies have bolted digital signage capabilities on to their core software platform. Often, that means the end-products don’t do a whole lot beyond playing out some files on a screen. I’m a bit guilty of making that assumption about Ditto, a wireless screen sharing platform that also works as a digital …
Jason Ault On How Coffman Media Tunes Digital Signage Solutions To Customer Needs September 5, 2023 by Super User Jason Ault was working in the traditional sign business back in the late 2000s when a customer contract came along that required a digital sign. He had an IT background, so he stuck up his hand and took it on. He caught the bug, so to speak, and has been in digital signage ever since …