Digital Signage Awards Extends Submission Deadline To Nov. 10th October 31, 2017 by Super User It seems like every digital signage awards program out there has a bit of a rolling deadline for submissions, and the UK-based Digital Signage Awards program is no exception. The official deadline is today, but organizer Matthew Davies has let me know it has been extended 10 days based on requests from companies. “We do …
BroadSign Adds Vertical Audience Buying To Digital OOH Delivery Platform October 31, 2017 by Super User BroadSign is continuing its evolution from being a slick content management platform for digital OOH networks to one that also enables digital media planners to buy ad time on a variety of digital OOH networks. The Montreal-based software firm, which now also has an office in New York, announced this morning a digital OOH audience …
ZetaDisplay’s European Roll-Up Continues With Acquisition of Dutch Firm QYN October 30, 2017 by Super User Swedish digital signage solutions provider ZetaDisplay AB is continuing its European roll-up efforts, buying what it describes as the largest and leading provider in Holland. ZetaDisplay has done a deal to acquire all of the shares of QYN BV, for SEK 83.3 million, or about $10 million USD. A press release says the deal is “to be …
Sony To Debut Interactive Digital Signage Platform At CES: Report October 30, 2017 by Super User Sony is reportedly planning to introduce an interactive digital signage platform at CES in Las Vegas in January that mashes up gesture sensors, augmented reality, audience analytics and signage. The Sony MITENE system has been around in Japan for several years, but a new 4K version will be shown and marketed in North America. Let’s …
No More Stupid People Tricks: Microsoft Kills Off Kinect October 26, 2017 by Super User Microsoft has killed off its motion-sensing Kinect – a camera-based gadget tied in with the tech giant’s consumer Xbox gaming boxes. The news kinda sorta vaguely matters in digital signage because there are jobs, here and there, that have used Kinects as the engine for their interactive experiences – asking poor slobs to flap their …
A Big, Premium Video Wall … In A Parking Garage October 26, 2017 by Super User Here’s a sure sign that video wall LCD costs and digital out of home media demand and value have converged, at least in Los Angeles. This is a twin video wall in a parking garage at The Grove, a higher-end shopping mall and entertainment complex in LA, roughly in the Hollywood area. Tiffany Daugherty of …
How To Use Digital Signage To Engage Millennials In Your Workplace October 26, 2017 by Stu Armstrong Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix Millennials currently make up a third of the workforce, and that percentage will only increase in the coming years (by 2025 it’s estimated they will account for 75% of employees). Who are they, what do they want, what do they expect and how can you get the most out of them? These are …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Peter Cherna, Scala October 25, 2017 by Super User This week we are doing a little wayback thing, talking to someone who has been working specifically at digital signage for almost 25 years, for a company that’s been at it for 30. One of the events that’s part of of all the digital signage week things in New York next week is one that’s …
Barco Bucks Industry Shift To LED Video Walls, Debuts No-Bezel LCD Video Wall System October 24, 2017 by Super User In an interesting twist, at a time when many LCD display manufacturers are investing big-time on fine pitch LED product to offset the expected decline in video wall sales, a company known far more for LED and projectors is launching a flashy new LCD wall product. Belgium-based Barco is launching Barco UniSee – a full …
Programmable LED Pylons Light Up Philly Office Development October 24, 2017 by Super User I don’t know that these could purely be described as digital signs, as they’re just doing ambient digital art, but they’re very nice … This is a pair of 50-foot tall LED pylons raised at the front of the Commerce Square office development in Philadelphia. Signage fabricator DCL design-engineered, built and installed the units – made out of …
