Consulting Firm 1,100+ Sq. Ft. Of Fine Pitch LED In Its New AZ Training Center March 12, 2025 by Dave Haynes It is increasingly common to see keynotes, panels and business presentations on stages that use big digital visuals as the backdrop, but the business consulting company Cardone Ventures has taken what’s usually an event-specific set-up and made it permanent at its new training center in Scottsdale, AZ. The company wanted a tech solution for live …
1,400+ Downloads And E-zine Views Now For Future Displays – Still Available And Still A Free Download March 10, 2025 by Dave Haynes It has been weeks since I checked the download and view totals for the Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report, and I am very pleased to report it is now past 1,400 downloads and e-zine views. It’s 100% free, which certainly helps, but I have also heard from more than enough people to say it’s also quite …
Barcelona’s Admira Gets A Visit From Nerd God Steve Wozniak March 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes For the last couple of years, I’ve spent the morning before ISE opens up in a lovely, relatively serene part of Barcelona called Gracia, visiting a digital signage solutions company called Admira and seeing what its CEO/Founder Carlos Silva Santin is up to now. He has built up a very successful company that ticks along …
Japanese Fashion House Turns Robes Into Pixel-Packed LED Displays March 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes Somewhere, there is a dreamer entrepreneur sitting in front of a monitor right now, having watched the video below, scratching her or his chin and and thinking about clothing as digital ad displays. Guaranteed. I’m not suggesting it’s a good idea – just that someone will be noodling the idea of garments becoming walking posters …
This Transparent OLED Display Moves Itself Around Retail And Other Venues March 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes Is there a market for a transparent OLED mounted atop a slowly-rolling delivery robot? Dunno. I have three very different thoughts here: This is expensive and technically fickle eye candy that will gets lots of attention and buzz, but result in few buyers; The excitement I see for this sort of thing at trade shows …
Poppulo Acquires REACH Media Network, Giving Parent Firm A Distinct SMB-Focused Solutions Option March 4, 2025 by Dave Haynes Were there any doubts about whether Poppulo had its attention back on the digital signage market, the company that many industry lifers will know more as Four Winds Interactive has acquired a software competitor, with REACH Media Network now part of Poppulo but continuing on as a separate entity chasing the SMB business that its …
QST LED Starts Marketing LED-Faced Portable Podium For Live Events, Retail March 4, 2025 by Dave Haynes The LA-based LED display company QST LED has started marketing and shipping an interesting digitally-wrapped podium meant for things like live events, retail demos and shows. The units are designed as plug and play, have wheels, and can be moved around to different events in a hard-core rollaway case – the sort of thing roadies …
Samsung Still Tops In Global TV Market Share, But China’s TCL And Hisense Coming On Fast: Counterpoint Research March 3, 2025 by Dave Haynes Like the data earlier in the day from Omdia, new insights from Counterpoint Research are about TVs and not professional displays, but are nonetheless indicative of larger business trends – in this case that forecasts about China eventually overtaking Korea in the TV market are coming true. Samsung still have the largest global market share …
UK Pub Group Seeing Tangible Sales Lift From Screens At Bars Just Peddling Pours And Snacks March 3, 2025 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting video bankrolled by Samsung’s UK operation that digs into the why and the outcome of deploying some 3,500 smart displays across pubs and bars in the UK, as part of a retail media network operated by a company that operates 1,000s of places to get a pint or cocktail in England, Wales, …
OLED TV Sales Seeing Double-Digit Growth; 85-Inch TVs Now Mainstreamed: Omdia March 3, 2025 by Dave Haynes There’s good reason to think OLED is never really going to be a mainstream option for pro display networks because of its relatively high costs and technical limitations, even with those limitations like brightness somewhat or fully addressed. But OLED is doing well in the much larger market of consumer televisions. New data from the …
