Digital Signage Check-In: How Was Your Quarter? June 27, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Q2 is coming to a close and we want to know: how did it go for the digital signage industry? We’d really appreciate it if you could take 3 minutes to complete our DBCI survey and tell us how the current business climate looks from your company’s perspective. Here’s the link to the survey. The …
Top Display Trends at Infocomm 2025 Through Futuresource’s Lens June 26, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger ProAV research firm Futuresource has published its post-Infocomm report, following on-site analysis by four of its experts. The report clusters and comments on product highlights from individual brands, focusing on potential and limitations. While we already reported where we saw the biggest leaps in AI – specifically in digital signage software – Futuresource goes down …
Pro-AV Business Showing Positive Indicators Despite Tariffs-Driven Uncertainties: AVIXA May 12, 2025 by Super User The Pro-AV business index generated month to month by trade association AVIXA’s market intelligence people suggests despite all the nutty uncertainty surrounding business conditions in the United States, the numbers for the industry actually look OK, at least so far. The May report, looking at April numbers and Q1, suggest that while tariff uncertainty continues …
UK Digital Out Of Home Ad Spend Was Up 10.2% In 2024: Research May 1, 2025 by Super User Readers have regularly seen OOH advertising market status updates from the US-based Out of home Advertising Association of America, but its been more rare to share data from other markets – like the UK. So I was happy to stumble on reporting from latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report out of the UK, which shows the overall …
How Pro AV Is Trying To Navigate All The Tariffs Uncertainty: AVIXA Experts April 17, 2025 by Super User The pro AV trade association AVIXA has a market intelligence team that steadily looks at the U.S. and global business from key angles like growth and overall health, as well as the impacts of factors like supply chain (huge during the COVID era) and most recently, tariffs. They do a video podcast called Exceptional Insights, …
Free Futuresource Analysis Looks At Industry Perspective, Workarounds For Current Tariffs Turmoil April 16, 2025 by Super User The research firm Futuresource Consulting has pro AV as a main focus and has, predictably, started to weigh in on the pinballing global tariffs situation – publishing a complementary bulletin called “Tariff Reflections on the Road” that reflects what analysts are hearing from makers and buyers at industry events like NAB. Among the interesting notes …
New Eyefactive White Paper Digs Into Hows And Whys Of In-Retail Analytics Tech April 10, 2025 by Super User The German interactive systems firm Eyefactive has pushed out a free white paper that digs into the hows and whys of using in-store analytics to drive retail performance. The paper – Revolutionizing Retail: How In-Store Analytics are Closing the Gap with E-Commerce – suggests there are five key benefits: Improved Customer Satisfaction – Research shows …
Apple, McDonald’s Still Biggest OOH Ad Spenders IN US; DOOH More Than Third Of All Buys : OAAA April 10, 2025 by Super User The big spenders in out of home advertising in the United States continue to also be some of the biggest global brands, according to a new Megabrands report from the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA). The 2024 MegaBrands and 2024 OOH Advertising Facts & Figures reports show Apple, McDonald’s, Amazon, Coca-Cola, and Verizon still …
Chinese University Researchers Develop LEDs So Small 127K Can Be Packed In Per Inch Of A Display March 25, 2025 by Super User It is not all that long ago that display industry people were debating with solutions providers the merits of 4K vs full HD, and the dubious value of next-gen,pixel-rich 8K displays, so it’s almost funny now to read about R&D efforts to reduce LED light chips down to nano sizes. Like displays that have 127,000 pixels …
Specialized Venues Remain Stronghold For Projection As Mainstream Markets Erode: Futuresource March 19, 2025 by Super User The research and consulting firm Futuresource Consulting has a new analysis out that likely backs up what people who pay attention would say – that the front projector industry has significant challenges and only selective opportunities ahead of it. That said, it is still a segment generating some big numbers – with the overall market reaching …
