Interactive Retail Merchandiser Perch Completes $1.7M Seed Funding July 18, 2018 by Super User NYC-based Perch, which has for several years been developing very clever interactive merchandising pieces for retail, has announced a $1.7 million seed funding raise and a high profile addition to its advisory board.Perch first came on my radar several years ago with an overhead projection system that turned an ordinary white merchandising table into a …
Gordon Feller Talks About The Real Potential For Smart Cities And Digital OOH July 18, 2018 by Super User I can’t say I’ve been all the enthralled by what I’ve seen so far with smart cities initiatives that involve digital out of home media companies. For the most part, they’re just digital posters with some wifi and maybe some sensors tossed in so the things can be called “smart.” Those things exist to run …
Big Disty Almo Acquires Longtime Content Partner Insteo July 17, 2018 by Super User Philly-based pro AV distributor Almo Professional A/V has acquired “certain assets” of Insteo, the Long Beach, CA content and creative shop. Almo has been tight with Insteo and its CEO/Founder Jim Nista for several years now, and the deal formalizes an arrangement that makes Almo capable of offering what can be lucrative digital signage content services through …
2,000 Sq. Ft. Of Gorgeous Visualized Data About To Go Live At Charlotte, NC’s Airport July 17, 2018 by Super User A nine-gate, $200 million addition to Charlotte Douglas Airport, in North Carolina, opens tomorrow morning, with a main feature being some 2,000 sq. ft. of visualized data on several vast fine-pitch LED video walls. The data visuals are the focal point of a public art piece, called Interconnected, commissioned by the airport to LA data …
Videos: Helpful Insight On Using User-Generated Content In Digital Signage July 16, 2018 by Super User Brad Parler of UK-based CMS firm ScreenCloud has completed a nice three-part video series on user-generated content for digital signage. Houston-based Parler, you may recall, joined ScreenCloud earlier this year, having built up a name doing very innovative corporate communications content for his old masters, blinds.com. I’ve had a few emails recently from end-users asking …
German Testing Lab Shows Samsung’s QLED Display Tech Has No Burn-In Issues July 16, 2018 by Super User Via Display Daily A German testing lab has released results of tests that verify Samsung’s QLED technology doesn’t suffer any of the burn-in problem of some other flat panel display tech. The tests, relayed via the display nerd site Display Daily, seem to be Samsung’s way of suggesting its premium displays are good to go …
How To Keep Your Digital Signage Audience Looking July 16, 2018 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix If you’re going to have digital signage, you need a content strategy. If you don’t have something on screens at all times to draw attention and interest viewers, they’ll start tuning out. That can seem like a daunting task – collecting, creating and designing digital signage messages every day. But …
Big AV Disty Stampede Acquired By Irish Sales, Marketing And Services Firm DCC July 13, 2018 by Super User Buffalo, NY-based Stampede, one of the biggest Pro AV distribution companies out there, has been acquired by the technology division of DCC plc, a £14.3 billion revenue, London Stock Exchange-listed (LSE) sales, marketing and support services group based in Dublin, Ireland. DCC has about 11,000 people across four divisions, and operates in 17 countries. “The …
Watch The Latest Digital Art Piece Running On NYC Fulton Center’s Digital Signage Network July 12, 2018 by Super User This is the latest digital art piece running at the busy Fulton Center Transportation Hub in Lower Manhattan. Commissioned by the MTA’s Arts & Design department, Skyyys is a video installation developed by interdisciplinary artist Dave Greber of Philadelphia. The idea behind Skyyys is playfully mimicking the constant stream of visual information that we all see daily. …
Printer Federal Heath Wins Digital Signage Rollout Deal With Kwik Trip C-Store Chain July 12, 2018 by Super User The mainstream printing/visual communications firm Federal Heath has been working its way into the digital signage sector in fits and starts for the last four or five years, but I met a guy at DSE who said his company was organized now for this business and getting some traction. A deal with a substantial US c-store …
