Chicago’s UPshow Hires On Ex-RMG CEO As President And SVP November 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Chicago digital signage CMS and solutions start-up UPshow has hired on former RMG Networks CEO Bob Michelson as its President and SVP, Customer Success. Michelson is hooking back up with UPshow CEO Adam Hirsen, who he worked with years ago at Sterling Partners, a large Chicago-based private equity investment firm. Michelson had been at …
STRATACACHE Continues Property Buying, With Big NOC Planned For Waterloo, Iowa November 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE owner and CEO Chris Riegel is continuing his affection for finding mothballed technology facilities, presumably at very good rates, and reviving them as active operations for his group of digital signage-focused companies. Most of the STRATACACHE building portfolio is in the immediate orbit of Dayton, Ohio, but the company today announced it has bought …
That’s TSItouch Tech Getting Worked In Election Return Analyses November 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes If you are in the U.S. or Canada – or further afield – spending an inordinate amount of time watching TV analysts explain the nuances of election returns in rural counties, you are seeing a lot of touchscreens being worked to the point of smoking. I’ve been watching MSNBC and its touch screens are a …
Flat Panel Display Demand Rebounding; Up 12% Quarter On Quarter: Omdia November 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes Global demand is ticking back up for flat panel displays (FPD), with the research firm Omdia issuing a new supply and demand tracker report that suggests demand is up 12% from the previous quarter and 4% year on year. Q3 demand will is set to reach 220 million m2 in 2020, says PR related to …
Westbury’s AV Tech To Be Auctioned Online Nov. 17-19 November 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes Digital signage and AV nerds who do ops and events may want to make a calendar note to check in on an auction set for Nov. 17-19 organized to sell off the physical assets of Toronto’s Westbury National Show Systems Ltd. The company was Canada’s largest full-service live event rental production company, but a combination …
Digital Curtain, Lit By Projection, Engages, Entertains Guests At Japanese Music College November 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is live events AV more than digital signage, but shows what’s possible with projection on a grand scale, and great creative. It is the digital curtain of the new theater, open in August, at the Senzoku Gakuen College of Music (SGCM) in Japan, in the general orbit of Tokyo. The school decided to use …
Next AVIXA Power Hour Has Rock Star Panel To Talk LED In Commercial Spaces November 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes The next AVIXA Digital Signage Power Hour is set for Nov. 17, and it is another good one – with a focus on LED on real estate and a rock star panel. We will be talking about how and why property owners are installing big dollar, visually dominating LED video walls in the lobbies of …
Google AI Researchers Demo System That Auto-Generates Video Spots From Web Pages November 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes Researchers at Google have started showing off demos of an AI system that mines and converts a web page into a short video, known as URL2Video. The system uses AI to extract the visuals and design styles – including fonts, colours, and layouts – and generate a decent-looking, albeit simplistic, video spot from it. The …
Mvix Launches All-You-Can-Eat Subscription Creative Service For Digital Signage Networks November 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes DC-based software and solutions shop Mvix has launched a flat rate, all-you-can-use custom content production service for digital signage networks. The Content Refresh Service is an ongoing subscription that delivers unlimited custom content designs for different digital signage networks. The pitch is that mid-market clients – not the mom and pops or the Fortune 500s …
Norwegian Toy Store Drives Experience With 24M LED Ceiling November 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a very impressive, nicely executed LED ceiling installed above the Kozmos toy store at Sandvika Storsenter, a mall in the general orbit of Oslo, Norway. The ceiling is 24 meters long and 2.5 meters wide, and runs through a set of visuals designed to make little eyes pop and drive the overall customer …
