Those Madly-Spinning Light Wands Find Logical Homes At Retail End-Caps October 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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. You are currently viewing a placeholder content from Default. To …
DataVisual’s Tech Tour Makes Stop Near New World HQ October 8, 2019 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
It Would Take 18+ Days To Make A MicroLED-based Smartphone Screen … October 4, 2019 by Dave Haynes Via Display Daily and Digitimes … One of the two big barriers facing the development of microLED displays is figuring out how to mass transfer a lot of the microscopic LED lights at once, since current high-speed manufacturing methods are too slow to make larger screens feasible. The Taiwan tech publication Digitimes is reporting how …
Geopath Gets OOH Industry Sign-Off To Formally Launch Data-Driven Insights Platform October 3, 2019 by Dave Haynes Geopath has received the out of home industry’s sign-off and formally launched its Insights platform, touted as the industry currency for Out Of Home audience measurement. The not-for-profit organization, which is governed by a board representing the entire OOH ecosystem – including advertisers, media agencies, and out-of-home media – first launched Insights as a …
Home To Raptors, Leafs Upgrades Its LED Screen Used For Public Viewing October 3, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is the new direct view LED board facing out to sports fans and local office workers outside the Toronto arena that’s home to both the Maple Leafs hockey team and NBA champion Raptors. The new LG-made screen at a plaza called Maple Leaf Square is 62 feet by 35 feet – 37 per cent …
DSF’s Oct. 15th Coffee & Controversy Focused On Privacy And Proof October 2, 2019 by Dave Haynes The always popular – even with me involved – Coffee and Controversy event put on by the Digital Signage Federation is coming up fast. It’s less than two weeks from today in New York. This year’s morning event will be Oct. 15th at Microsoft’s Training Facility at 11 Times Square, and the subject is Privacy …
AirDroid Adds Business Tool For Managing Remote Digital Signage, Kiosks October 2, 2019 by Dave Haynes A software company that develops remote access and management tools for Android devices has released a business version aimed at use-cases like digital signage. The newly announced AirDroid Business has a kiosk mode, the developers says, that turns “any Android device into a kiosk and manage it remotely, with the ability to maintain and customize software …
Mood Media Gets Retail Music, Digital Signage Working Together With New Harmony CMS October 2, 2019 by Dave Haynes Austin, TV-based Mood Media has come up with an interesting cross-media solution aimed at making it easier to control a variety of “experiences” in retail settings off of a single platform. Called Harmony, the software and underlying technology platform lets retail operators “connect and manage all of their in-store content – including music, messaging, visuals …
