More Supply Chain Woes – Costs For Shipping By Sea Container Up More Than 500% July 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes There has been lots of discussion the last few months about the industry impacts of shortages of everything from semi-conductors to glass and even wood pallets for shipping, but now we’re learning there’s another, very different supply chain problem – shipping costs. The painfully high costs of air freight see most manufacturers using the much …
Samsung Launches Its 24″ All-In-One Kiosk And Supporting Software Partner Ecosystem June 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes
Employee Experience Platform HubEngage Adds Digital Signage Capabilities June 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes Numerous digital signage software and solutions companies are pushing hard into the workplace as a vertical, so it should not be terribly surprising that software companies focused on other kinds of workplace messaging are pushing into digital signage. Companies like Zoom, for example, have added digital signage capabilities to its popular video meeting platform. Now …
Nissan Crossover Busts Its Thames-side LED Display Case, Using Anamorphic Illusion June 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a temporary, pop-up digital marketing display for a Nissan vehicle on the banks of the Thames in London, using the same anamorphic illusion techniques seen lately on corner LED displays in China and South Korea. As with all of these LED projects, clever motion graphic design creates the illusion that the visuals are …
ZetaDisplay Target Of Takeover By UK Investment Firm June 28, 2021 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
