Is Amazon Getting Into Digital Signage And DOOH? Looks Like It. March 18, 2022 by Super User The online publication Modern Retail, which chronicles guess what, has an interesting, mildly speculative piece up that explores the idea of online retailing behemoth Amazon selling ads on the screens it is building into its tech-forward physical retail stores. Last month, Business Insider reported that Amazon was planning on selling in-store digital advertising inventory to sell …
Mvix Joins Growing List Of CMS Software Firms Running On Sony’s Android TV Pro Displays March 18, 2022 by Super User The digital signage CMS software and solutions firm Mvix has joined a growing list of companies creating variants of their platform to run on Sony’s commercial smart displays. The Sony platform for its Bravia series of pro displays runs on Android TV, which is similar to the Android operating system now broadly used in digital …
London Underground Projection Markets Windows Errors March 16, 2022 by Super User As relayed by a reader: A reminder for screen network operators – if reminding is needed – that shit happens. This is on the London Underground, on a platform at Green Park station. The media company with the ad concession for the subway platforms has in its portfolio billboard-sized projections that go across the track …
PORTL Rebrands As Proto; Adds Mini Version Of Hologram-ish Transparent LCD Display March 16, 2022 by Super User The LA start-up that made a name for itself for using big transparent LCDs and clever lighting to create hologram-ish virtual presence experiences has done a name change to reinforce how it was the first to figure this all out, followed by copycats. PORTL has re-branded as Proto Inc. – Proto meaning “first.” The company, …
First Arriving Breaks Off Digital Signage Services As Standalone Business March 15, 2022 by Super User The Virginia digital signage company focused on solutions for first responders – like police and fire departments – has taken the interesting step of spinning out its SaaS-based services as a standalone business. First Arriving IO will focus on rapidly scaling its existing dashboard and data infrastructure services while the parent company, First Arriving LLC, …
Elevator Manufacturing Giant Schindler Launches Own Screen Network In Its Installed Buildings March 15, 2022 by Super User Via German content partner Invidis … The big elevator equipment manufacturers have seen media start-ups equip their commercial and residential cabs with screens for more than 20 years, but have largely stayed out of the direct media business. Now there’s word that one of the largest global manufacturers, Switzerland’s Schindler, has created the Schindler Media …
More Supply Chain Issues: Electronics Factory Hub Shenzhen Locked Down For (At Least) A Week March 15, 2022 by Super User As much as we all want to wish the pandemic away and go back to normal, COVID-19 continues to be a serious problem both for health and business. The latest big knock comes out of China, where lockdowns are again impacting the supply chain for electronics components. The local government of Shenzhen has locked the …
Electronic Shelf Labels Being Used In Big Retail To Drive Donations For Ukraine Relief Efforts March 14, 2022 by Super User There is lots of evidence of the digital OOH media community stepping up to support what’s going in Ukraine through free media on digital billboards and things like sidewalk ad totems. But now there’s a way to offer support and trigger donations in mass merchandise and grocery retail, using electronic shelf labels (ESLs). The firm …
Global Public Display Demand Almost Back To Pre-COVID Levels: Omdia March 14, 2022 by Super User Shipments of public displays – the terminology used in legit research circles for digital signage displays – have almost come back to pre-COVID levels, according to new numbers from the market research firm Omdia. Research analyst Tay Taehoon Kim on Omdia pushed out a brief on Linkedin that says global public display shipments grew 10.2% …
OnLogic Debuts Industrialized Raspberry Pi Micro PCs March 14, 2022 by Super User Math nerds would know that this is Pi Day, which celebrates the mathematical constant Pi … which is something that evidently winds up math nerds. So … Happy Pi Day! I note this because the New England industrial PC firm OnLogic has chosen the day to announce a new, finished product built around the Raspberry …
