Digital Display Usage In Drive-Thru Spiked In COVID Era, But Research Suggests Industry Far From Built Out: Study October 6, 2021 by Super User QSR Magazine covers guess what and does an annual, very thorough study of what’s happening with the drive-thru side of that business. It is required reading for anyone selling display hardware or software into that space, and provides some intriguing insights about how much things changed when COVID-19 turned up. Under a headline suggesting the …
New Reflect Retail Study Reveals Big Appetite In US For Bringing Online Shopping Features To Physical Stores September 22, 2021 by Super User The Dallas CMS software firm Reflect has pushed out the executive summary of findings generated from a recent survey of 1,600 Americans on their preferences for shopping and the role of technology coming out of this pandemic. The national study – called In-Store Shopping: Hiccups & Hangups of 2021 – showed a significant thirst for …
LED Display Sales Coming Back; 2021 Global Sales Forecast To Hit $6.5B: Futuresource September 9, 2021 by Super User Photo: Allsee Technologies Another research firm has pushed out data suggesting that while the worldwide LED industry took a big sales hit as the pandemic took hold in 2020, sales are bouncing back in a big way in 2021. “Although global sales fell by 12% last year, the market performed better than the expectations of …
Global LED Display Sales Have Bounced Back After Big 2020 COVID-era Decline: Omdia September 9, 2021 by Super User The LED video display market appears to be almost fully recovered from the big activity dip recorded in the middle of 2020, as the pandemic really took hold. The research firm Omdia has kindly put out some snippets from its ongoing industry tracking work, via Linkedin, that suggest the industry saw 17.8% Quarter on Quarter …
Out Of Home Media Revenues Clobbered During Stay-At-Home Lockdowns: OAAA Data September 2, 2021 by Super User Data released recently by the Out Of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) reveals just how badly the out of home ad sector was clobbered by COVID lockdowns that expressly encouraged people not to be out of their homes. US media spends decreased significantly across various aspects of out-of-home, both analog and digital, from Q1 …
Korean-US R&D Effort Getting MicroLED Light Emitters Down To The Size Of Virus Particles August 20, 2021 by Super User If you listened to this week’s Sixteen:Nine Podcast or read the transcript, you may recall SCALA/STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel talking about the microLED plant he is spinning up and the huge advances being seen in microLED R&D. He reference how new manufacturing processes are making it possible to make light-emitting, addressable LEDs that are truly …
Large Format LED Display Sales Returning To Pre-Pandemic Levels: Omdia Research August 16, 2021 by Super User The latest data from research firm Omdia’s LED Video Displays Market Tracker suggests the video wall market is coming back to pre-pandemic sales levels, and the biggest market demand is for fine pitch product. The recovery of the fine pixel pitch (FPP) category, which includes <=1.99mm, is noticeably faster than other wider pixel pitch categories …
Consumers Jumpy When Business Entries Have No COVID Guidelines Signage: Research August 12, 2021 by Super User The Greek/American digital signage CMS software firm Yodeck took the interesting step of commissioning research to learn what consumers think about signs being used for COVID-19 safety messaging, with the big insight being how nervous people got when there was no messaging. The survey, involving some 400 Americans back in Q2, suggested 63% of consumers …
Global Digital OOH Execs Expecting Dramatic Growth In Next Five Years: Survey July 7, 2021 by Super User New research from the Miami-based computer vision firm Alfi suggests 95% of advertising executives expect the Digital OOH ad sector to grow over the next two years, with 51% anticipating dramatic expansion. At the end of 2020, a forecast suggested the DOOH market would be worth $41.06 billion in five years, but the survey revealed …
Global Consumers Increasingly Comfy With Return To Physical Stores: Research July 7, 2021 by Super User The retail-focused solutions provider Mood Media has released new research looking at shopper sentiments globally, finding 80% of consumers are now comfy with the idea of returning to physical stores, up from 71% in 2020. The report – Shopper Sentiments: A June 2021 Global Mood Survey – was done by Censuswide, surveying more than 8,000 …
