Sweden’s Smartsign Touts 20% Growth In 2017, And Reach All The Way To Down Under February 23, 2018 by Dave Haynes The Swedish CMS software firm Smartsign has pushed out interesting numbers about its efforts to broaden the customer base – noting that three years ago 90% of business came from home, and now 50% comes from outside Sweden. “We are especially happy about this, and are gaining more and more shares of the markets. We …
What Are The Largest Digital Signage Networks, Globally? February 22, 2018 by Dave Haynes What are the largest digital signage networks in the world? I got that question the other day, and I did not have a particularly solid, well-informed answer. A decade ago, the big networks might have had 10,000 end-points and were run by entities like lottery corporations. But these days, the largest networks might have 5x …
LEDs Create Faux Stained Glass Ceiling In Luxe Mexican Department Store February 21, 2018 by Dave Haynes The centerpiece of a $300 million reno job at the largest department store in Latin America – Al Palacio de los Palacios in Mexico City – is a full ceiling LED display. It’s meant as a budget-friendly and totally changeable alternative to a more traditional stained glass ceiling. “Al Palacio de los Palacios is arguably the …
Photo: STRATACACHE, Scala Hold Americas Sales Summit For 65 February 21, 2018 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel sent me a photo from this week’s sales meetings in, I think, suburban Philly, where Scala is based. STRATACACHE is based in Dayton, OH but flying into Philly would be a lot easier. The meeting is the 2018 sales summit for North and South America, and involves about 65 people, he …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Joaquim Lopes On 4YouSee And The Latin American Digital Signage Market February 21, 2018 by Dave Haynes I have traded emails with Joaquim Lopes for at least couple of years now, and he has been telling me about his company 4YouSee and its efforts providing software and services to the Latin American digital signage market. He was at Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam a couple of weeks ago, and when we finally …
UK Digital Billboard Campaign Visualizes Cyber-Crime In Real-Time February 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a terrific, very different way to use real-time data to drive home a compelling message for a brand – in this case a UK insurer that wanted to make small businesses aware of cyber-risks. The digital OOH campaign for Hiscox Insurance visualizes in real-time attacks on a designated “honeypot” server that would typify …
Looking At DSE 2018’s Floor Map, And Barely Seeing The Big “Outsiders” February 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes There are extremely varied opinions on what the presence of companies like Google, Adobe and Microsoft mean to the digital signage industry. On one hand, there are people who see these kinds of companies, from outside the formal business, as the ones who will eventually take over. That’s one of the takes German digital signage …
Riegel, Stratacache Now Have 100% Ownership Of Scala February 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE now has 100% ownership of Scala, having acquired all outstanding Scala shares and Scala divisions around the globe including Scala Inc., Scala BV, Scala KK and Scala Nordic AS. “Scala has created an excellent brand and execution footprint around the globe over the past thirty years, tailoring their digital signage offerings to the specific …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Andrea Varrone Previews Digital Signage Expo 2018 February 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes Trade show managers like to attend other trade shows to see what’s going and how things are done, as well chat up exhibitors who might also want to hang a shingle at that trade show manager’s own event. So it was no surprise last week to find Andre Varrone – who runs Digital Signage Expo …
Location, Location, Location – The Science Of Placing Digital Signage Displays February 13, 2018 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix There’s a famous tricolon popularized by British real estate tycoon Lord Harold Samuel – “location, location, location” – that was meant for property but holds true for digital signage. You want a lot of people to easily see what’s on your screens. Let’s examine a simple, but oft-overlooked aspect to …
