Poor Workplace Communications Can Have Massive Bottom Line Implications: Survey March 6, 2023 by Dave Haynes Workplace communications is a very active vertical in digital signage – both in white collar and operational environments – because of the recognition by end-user customers that better, more timely and relevant messaging is perhaps more important than ever. Some digital signage software companies – like Appspace, Poppulo (Four Winds) and NDS (Netherlands) – have …
Fine Pixel Pitch LED Display Shipments Flat Q4 2022; Up 7.6% For Year: Omdia March 6, 2023 by Dave Haynes Shipments of fine pixel pitch LED video displays pretty much stalled out in the last quarter of 2022, with shipments growing by just 0.1% quarter on quarter, the research firm Omdia reports in its latest market tracker report. In 4Q22, LED video display shipments reached about 425,000 square meters (sqm), growing a mere 0.1% QoQ …
Consumers Are Particularly Receptive To Ads In Airports: Study March 3, 2023 by Dave Haynes The New Zealand wing of OOH/DOOH media giant JCDecaux has released a set of insights generated from a neuroscience study that suggests travellers are particularly receptive to advertising in airports because of the “uniqueness of the experience, space and emotional intensity of air travel.” Conducted late last year by the neuroscience research company Neuro-Insight, the …
Pro Flat Panel Demand In US Softened Q3-4 2022: PMA Research February 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes LA-area research firm PMA Research says demand for commercial flat panel displays softened in the second half of last year as supply chain issues cleared up and order backlogs were all fulfilled. PMA, which describes itself as the worldwide market information experts on large displays, released that summary out of its latest half-yearly All-Displays sell-through …
R&D Work Suggests Metasurfaces Could Supplant LCD; Boosting Resolution, Halving Power Needs February 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes University researchers in the UK and Australia are collaborating on the development of a new kind of engineered material that would be much thinner than LCD technology, boost resolution 10-fold, and use half the power. Researchers at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, the Australian National University (ANU), and the University of New South Wales …
Chart: Who Is The Biggest Of Them All In DOOH & Retail Media? February 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes Merchant banking firm Solomon Partners – which through partner Mark Boidman is very active in guiding M&A in the DOOH sector – has published an interesting but probably flawed graphic that details what are the biggest place-based digital OOH and retail media networks in the U.S. market. The list of 16 companies details network size …
Two-Thirds Of Digital Signage Companies Seeing Double-Digit Growth: Invidis February 13, 2023 by Dave Haynes The first numbers are out from the Digital Signage Business Climate Index (DBCI) produced by Sixteen:Nine’s content partners in Germany, the consulting-events-publishing firm invidis, it suggests a lot of companies in the sector are seeing encouraging growth. 65 percent of the companies surveyed by invidis achieved double-digit sales growth in 2022, and the industry generally sees …
Almost 14,000 Digital Billboard Faces Across US: Billboard Insider January 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes Billboard Insider has a very useful post up that lists the 236 U.S. media companies it knows about that have digital displays in their inventory. The 237 companies account for 13,826 digital faces. The list is bulletin and poster. We have excluded transit and place-based. A face is a face. One digital face is one …
Invidis Reviving Industry Business Climate Index; Needs Your Viewpoints January 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes One of the ongoing challenges in this industry is finding good data and insights on what is really going on – as there not a lot of credible research being done on the software and business side of the industry. The panel manufacturers can get market demand and supply chain data from companies such as …
Global DOOH Spending Up Almost 25% In 2022, Led By US: PQ Media January 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes The boutique media research firm PQ Media suggests global digital OOH media spending grew by almost 25% in 2022, most notably in the US where spending surged by 36.9%. The Stamford, CT company, which has been around the DOOH/emerging media sector for the last 20 years, expects both global and US DOOH ad spend to …
