ZetaDisplay Target Of Takeover By UK Investment Firm June 28, 2021 by Super User Via Invidis The German language digital signage publisher and consulting shop invidis is reporting that Swedish solutions provider ZetaDisplay – one of the larger players in Europe – is looking over a takeover bid from a UK investor. Today, reports invidis, before the stock exchange opening, the London-based financial investor Hanover published a takeover to …
Start-up Monetizes Sidewalk Air Pollution Scrubber Towers For Cityscapes With OOH Ad Faces June 25, 2021 by Super User We’ve seen out of home media companies attach advertising faces to all kinds of things out in public – like transit shelters, pylons and sidewalk directories – but now a UK start-up has a solution on streets that pairs an ad face with an sidewalk air scrubber. The environmental media start-up Pluvo has partnered with KineticX, …
Giant BSOD Greets Motorists On Sydney Highway June 24, 2021 by Super User There’s always another one, so I am not validating the Linkedin speculation that this is the world’s biggest Blue Screen Of Death, but it would have to be up there in scale. This is on a motorway in Sydney, Australia, and is an LED ad screen for a media company in that country. The Linkedin …
Rise Vision, Sharp NEC Partner On Raspberry Pi-Driven Digital Signage Solution For Schools June 23, 2021 by Super User Rise Vision and Sharp NEC Display Solutions have done a partnership that sees K-12 schools and higher education institutions getting a free year of using Rise Vision’s CMS platform with NEC Display MediaPlayer solution they purchase. As part of this partnership, Rise Vision has integrated their solution with the NEC MediaPlayer via the pre-installed Raspberry …
Reflect Systems Wins Patent For Its Retail-Centric, Endemic Ad Management Platform June 23, 2021 by Super User Dallas-based CMS software firm Reflect Systems has been awarded a U.S. patent (No. 11030643) for its AdLogic platform – which is an ad-on to the core software that focuses on endemic advertising in retail environments. The platform differs from platforms like BroadSign, which is squarely focused on third-party, non -endemic advertising on media networks, with bookings from …
Peerless-AV Plans AV/Signage Showcase, Networking Event For Sept. In London June 23, 2021 by Super User One of the expected outcomes from the absence of big AV trade shows was individual suppliers and service providers re-thinking whether they need to do big shows – opting instead for their own events, done on their own time schedules and where they want and need to be. I’m not sure I buy into the …
Sport Direct’s Oxford Street Flagship In London Has 100M Pixels Of Digital Display June 22, 2021 by Super User There are exceptions, but in general terms the one retail vertical that pretty consistently goes to town with screens in stores is sports and recreation. You don’t typically see new builds and renos for clothing, grocery or mass merchandise putting screens all over the place, but that definitely still happens in sports retailing. A lot …
Paving The Path To Smart Retail Media – Building On A Future Foundation June 21, 2021 by Super User Guest Post: Laura Davis-Taylor, inReality Embracing the store as a valid media channel is finally coming of age, and our industry is at a crossroads: build it on the principles of the past, or pivot to position it for maximum value, profit and cross-channel value. The religious debate at hand is if the model to …
Purina Puts Some 200 Lift And Learn Digital End Caps In US Midwest Groceries June 18, 2021 by Super User This is an interactive end-cap for big box stores that uses sensors and a touch screen, as well as print graphics, to get shoppers learning more about a line of pet food products. Ther end-caps are in some 200 supermarkets in the US midwest, in a program for Purina put together by the NYC-based interactive …
Vuereal Demos Super-Bright MicroLED Display On Glass, With 85% Transparency June 17, 2021 by Super User Via DisplayDaily and microled.info Microled.info has a short post up about a demonstration by the Canadian start-up Vuereal of a transparent microLED display that does more than 3,000 nits on brightness measures – enough to cut through bright sunlight. The Waterloo, ON start-up’s prototype display is only smartphone-sized and the use-case for this sort of …
