NBA’s Warriors Light Up LED-laden New Home Court Building In San Francisco October 21, 2019 by Super User Sports and entertainment venues have long been an opportune market for digital signage vendors because of the need for owner/operators to both communicate a lot of changing information, and drive the visual excitement of the event experience. They’re also opportune because venue operators are pretty steadily looking to up their technology game, particularly with newly …
Machine Hallucinating In NYC October 19, 2019 by Super User Experiential spaces seems to be an emerging new business, driven by lowered technology costs, easier tools and brilliant creative minds who are pushing the boundaries on digital creative. While in New York this week I had a free hour to run over to Chelsea Market to visit the converted boiler room that is now called …
IV Dickson On Why SageNet Expanded Its IT Business Into Digital Signage October 16, 2019 by Super User It’s now really common that businesses of all sizes and types who decide to deploy some sort of digital signage network look to a solutions provider who will not only help put it in, but help the client go from the idea stage all the way through to ongoing operations. Effectively, they’re outsourcing the whole …
Startup Touts Gear And Plan For End-Users To Make Low Rent Direct View LED Displays October 10, 2019 by Super User Heavy traffic, every day, for posts on Raspberry Pi options and free digital signage software tell me there is a substantial constituency out there that does not want to pay market prices for mainstream digital signage technology. I’ve seen it with player hardware (Android sticks and set-top boxes) and play-out software, but I did not …
ZetaDisplay Acquires Dutch CMS Gauddi In Ongoing Digital Signage Consolidation Effort October 10, 2019 by Super User The Swedish firm ZetaDisplay is continuing to build its digital signage solutions company through acquisition, announcing today that it has paid about $5 million USD, in cash, to acquire the Dutch CMS software company Gauddi. Malmo-based Zeta says the deal, effective today, makes it the primary player in the BeNeLux region. Eindhoven-based NDS might argue …
That LED Barge Has Made Its Last Trip On The Rivers Around Manhattan October 9, 2019 by Super User New York City has reached a settlement with the Florida company that upset many residents by operating a floating LED billboard barge on the East and Hudson Rivers. Under the terms of an agreement announced Tuesday, Ballyhoo Media must pay a $100,000 fine if its barge is seen again along the waterways. The settlement came …
Those Madly-Spinning Light Wands Find Logical Homes At Retail End-Caps October 9, 2019 by Super User I’m not much of a fan of those madly-spinning LED light wands that kinda sorta do 3D holographic images, because eye candy tends to have a short shelf life and things that spin eventually fail. But the UK company that is the market leader for the tech may have found a good logical home for …
Matt Schmitt On Why Retail-centric Reflect Got Into Advertising Software October 9, 2019 by Super User Reflect is one of the longest running companies in the digital signage sector – operating out of Dallas since 2001. The company built up its CMS software business largely in retail, but in early 2017 did something of a pivot into ad scheduling and targeting. I wondered, when I first got walked through what’s called …
DataVisual’s Tech Tour Makes Stop Near New World HQ October 8, 2019 by Super User I joke with industry people that my new home city of Halifax is a bit of a black hole when it comes to digital signage activity, having moved here in 2018 from Toronto, which has long been an epicenter of the business. The only directly active company in the vicinity is ScreenScape, and those folks …
SignageOS Launches Benchmark And Testing Center For System On Chip Devices October 7, 2019 by Super User The team at signageOS, the US/Czech company that has written middleware to bridge CMS software and system on chip media players, has started a research center that tests and benchmarks the wide variety of available devices. The first report out of the signageOS Research Center focused on “smart” digital signage displays running Samsung’s SOC hardware …
