Global Flat Panel Sales Headed For Big Dip: IHS Markit Research November 22, 2018 by Super User The flat panel display equipment market is forecasted to be heading into a rough patch, as manufacturers wait for demand to catch up with supply. Market research firm IHS Markit says flat panel display sales are expected to fall from $20.2 billion in 2017 to $14.0 billion in 2020, declining at a compound annual rate of …
BrightSign Partners With BlueFox On WiFi-Sensing Retail Analytics November 16, 2018 by Super User BrightSign is the latest digital signage-focused company to build analytics into its offer, though it is via partnership and done a little differently than some other companies in the ecosystem. The Silicon Valley-based Roku spinoff BrightSign has integrated BlueFox’s WiFi sniffing technology into its range of digital signage media players. The pitch for what’s touted as …
Mall Research Suggests Targeted Digital OOH Ads Can Drive Double-Digit Store Sales November 15, 2018 by Super User Here is a too-rare example of a brand or brands actually sharing field research data based on the cause and effect of Digital OOH mall advertising on sales. The brand ventures wing of the big shopping mall concern Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) did a pilot program this fall with the French analytics firm Quividi to test assumptions that …
Rich Ventura Goes Deep On ALP – NEC’s New Retail Analytics Platform October 31, 2018 by Super User NEC Display has been fairly quietly involved in analytics for a long time now, but it just got very serious and noisy about that capability, with the launch of something called ALP – which is short for Analytics Learning Platform. It’s a retail intelligence program that uses cameras and other sensors, AI, big data, cloud …
Smart Displays On The Rise: Updated Report On SoC In Digital Signage October 29, 2018 by Super User About 18 months ago, Sixteen:Nine first looked at the state of smart displays and raised the question of whether digital signage displays with embedded System on Chip (SoC) players inside represented the future path for the industry. In early 2017, almost every sign pointed to widespread adoption. Today, it is clear that adoption is happening. …
Samsung Continues As Global Leader In Digital Signage Display Shipments: IDC Research October 5, 2018 by Super User The Boston-area market research firm International Data Corporation has released new data on the global digital signage market that suggests Samsung continues to be the big dog when it comes to display shipments, with LG second and, in a slightly weird twist, a company I’ve never heard of ahead of NEC in third spot. Goodview??? …
LCD Display Market Booming, Says IHS Markit In New Tracker Research September 4, 2018 by Super User Research firm IHS Markit says the large format LCD display market is booming at the moment, with panel shipments hitting a record monthly high in July 2018 in terms of unit and area shipment. London-based IHS says unit shipments increased by 10 percent in July compared to a year ago, to reach 64.3 million units, …
LED Display Market Now Valued At More Than $5B: Futuresource August 16, 2018 by Super User LED displays are now a $5 billion global market, with the Americas region reaching a key milestone of $1 billion for the first time in 2017. The data comes from the market research firm Futuresource Consulting, which makes displays one of a relatively short list of vertical markets it studies. I note this because news …
How To Make Your Digital Signage More Effective, With A/B Testing July 10, 2018 by Kenneth Brinkmann Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix In order to truly use your organizational digital signage to its fullest potential, you need to have a system of continuous assessment in place – what works, what doesn’t and how can less effective messages be improved to get people to follow your calls-to-action? One way to peek under the …
Crap Research: You Probably Didn’t Know NEC, Advantech Are Market Leaders In Signage Software (Spoiler: They’re Not) May 25, 2018 by Super User I have seen tweets, Linkedin posts and even news coverage from people who need to invest a little more time thinking (than they do copying and pasting) about a report out in the last few days about top-rated digital signage software platforms. Some rated companies are even congratulating themselves on being selected, etc etc. But …
