Data Integration Is What It’s All About These Days April 18, 2017 by DanielWaldron Guest Post: Loren Bucklin, ConnectedSign Data integration is really what sophisticated digital signage is all about these days – using real-time information to generate relevant, easily consumed visuals for screens. Done well for businesses, it can do things like help staff to keep the mission, vision and values of their company top of mind. For …
Impressions From InfoComm China 2017 April 17, 2017 by Super User Back from Beijing after several days spent talking and walking at InfoComm China, and waaaay too many hours on my butt flying home. Thanks first to John Wang and Amanda Sung of IAdea, and the rest of the folks from the Digital Signage Multimedia Alliance (of Taiwan) for working with InfoComm to have me over …
InfoComm China: An LCD Video Wall With Kinda Sorta No Visible Seams April 12, 2017 by Super User Probably the most interesting thing I saw in a quick walk around several halls at InfoComm China in Beijing on Wednesday was a Shanghai company called Pallas, which has tech that does a really good job of making the seams in LCD video walls visually go away. It uses something called active bezel tech – …
Taking Advertising In-House? Part 2 April 12, 2017 by Emily Carroll Guest Post: Brett Farley, NanoLumens Part 2: The Considerations of That In-House Network Selling the Media There are a number of different ways to sell your media network to advertisers and a clear strategy allowing for all the variances to drive toward your end game of maximizing your sales revenue need to be considered. Some …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Ke-Quang Nguyen-Phuc, Quividi April 12, 2017 by Super User A lot of companies have come in and out of video analytics for digital signage, but the one constant has been Quividi – a French company with an anonymous pattern detection product a lot of people will tell you is the gold standard for this tech. I sat with CEO Ke-Quang Nguyen-Phuc during a break …
Taking Advertising In-House? Think Long And Hard First! April 11, 2017 by Emily Carroll Guest Post: Brett Farley, NanoLumens Part 1: Think About It First … We’ve seen a trend where I work with large real estate ownership and management groups are either initiating their own advertising sales teams and networks, or having outsourced that function unsuccessfully, reclaiming ownership of that function and taking it back “in house.” These companies …
Projects: National Sept. 11 Museum Upgrades Digital Signage With BrightSign’s 4K Tech April 10, 2017 by Super User The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan recently overhauled its digital signage infrastructure, adding in a stack of BrightSign players. The little purple boxes now power about a third of the museum’s digital signage set-up, feeding informational and interactive content to roughy 30 displays located throughout all seven floors of the subterranean museum. Hal …
Quiet Posting Week Ahead April 9, 2017 by Super User I have some posts already scheduled to run, but this will likely be a quiet week for posting. I’m on the other side the planet for InfoComm China – a speaking gig – and not totally sure how much time I will have, or how easy or hard it will be, to post content. I …
How To Impress Your Audience With An Interactive Video Wall April 7, 2017 by Super User Guest Post: Tim Griffin, Userful Video walls are everywhere and companies are looking for creative ways to use them. Gone are the days of slapping together a grid of a few displays and playing content around them. Customers are looking for artistic layouts, interactive content, dynamic content switching, immersive experiences, and more. All too often, …
Uber Open Sources Its Data Visualization Framework April 7, 2017 by Super User Via TechCrunch If your company is looking into data visualization, and has developers eager to have a run at it, here’s a pretty sophisticated open source development framework that Uber – yeah, that Uber – has made available. The data visualization framework used internally by the ride-share company to do things like visualize customer experiences was made …
