How Pro AV Is Trying To Navigate All The Tariffs Uncertainty: AVIXA Experts April 17, 2025 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
AVIXA Puts Out Five Top Pro AV Considerations For Dealing With Tariff Turmoil March 18, 2025 by Dave Haynes The pro AV trade association AVIXA – which owns and runs the InfoComm trade shows and co-owns ISE – has a market intelligence unit that produces both free and AVIXA member-based material that looks at the state of the industry and key issues like trade. So as you might expect, the market intelligence team has …
Digital Growth Drives Out-of-Home Ad Revenue to Historic $9.1 Billion: OAAA March 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes The out of home ad industry in the U.S. crossed the $9 billion revenue threshold for the first time, up 4.5% year on year to $9.1 billion, according to new data from the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA). DOOH continues to be the high performer, growing 7.5% in 2024 and now accounting …
Omdia: Advice On How Display Companies Might Navigate Tariffs Uncertainties March 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes Research firm Omdia’s Chief Analyst for looking at the display industry has a post up looking at the implications the tariffs battle might have on industry, and now that we’re in it – acknowledging things may have changed twice by the time I finish this post – it is a worthwhile read. Deborah Yang gets …
Broadsign, Sustainability Platform Scope3 Partner On Comprehensive CO2 Footprint Modelling For DOOH Networks March 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes You don’t get the sense energy conservation and greenhouse gas issues are going to get much attention in the U.S. anytime soon, but it’s something much of the rest of the world is looking at and in some cases putting rules and regulations around. To that end, the Canadian, DOOH focused CMS and programmatic company …
