PATTISON Onestop Catching Up With Captivate In Canadian Elevator Media Race June 14, 2016 by Super User Canadian outdoor media owner PATTISON Onestop appears to be catching up to Captivate when it comes to market dominance in the elevator media space – having just announced a deal to take over a set of Canadian buildings from its Boston-based rival. The company, a division of PATTISON Outdoor Advertising, has added to its Digital Office Network …
Slides: Start Your Digital Signage Project With Why, Or Don’t Even Start It June 13, 2016 by Super User Following on the old, here’s a very new take on signage – my presentation last Tuesday morning in Las Vegas at the InfoComm Digital Signage Summit. It’s not really a look at the market as a whole. It’s much more a long-form riff about the utter importance of strategy, and my open questions about some …
Time Travel: My Early 2009 Take On Future Of Signage June 13, 2016 by Super User Wow, just stumbled on this presentation I did in Montreal, at some conference or other, back in early 2009. I had most of what I was blabbering on about right, but it’s so old I was talking about Flash and Silverlight. Back then, I was also a lot more bullish about digital OOH. That just …
Upcoming Webinars On Content, Data-Driven Signage June 13, 2016 by Super User I’m involved in a couple of upcoming webinars in the next couple of weeks. On Wednesday at 2 pm, the Digital Signage Federation has a panel discussion/bun fight on “the age old questions around content for digital signage.” Questions our panelists will discuss include: My software let’s me make unlimited zones, how many should I …
Projects: Lithuania’s Teo Networks Its Instore Marketing Efforts June 13, 2016 by Super User Lithuania’s leading telco and home entertainment services provider Teo has kitted out stores with single displays and clusters in push to enhance customer services. The set-up is running in shopping malls in that country’s three largest cities, with the tech put in by solutions provider Hansab, running Signagelive on Samsung displays. The company, says a press release, …
InfoComm 2016: Day 2 Impressions June 10, 2016 by Super User The more I walked and talked here at InfoComm, the more I was drawing conclusions around what digital signage displays look like in the next five years. First, many or most of the the single displays are going to ship with embedded intelligence on them. Whatever you think of System on Chip displays, pretty much …
InfoComm 2016: Day One Impressions June 9, 2016 by Super User As warned, there are indoor LED displays everywhere at this year’s edition of the big InfoComm systems integrator-pro AV nerdfest in Las Vegas. There are two massive halls for this show, and LED companies are all over the footprint of both of them. There is by no means just an area designated for them. What …
InfoComm 2016: LED World June 8, 2016 by Super User I have not been on the InfoComm show floor yet, as it doesn’t formally open for a couple of hours and only exhibitors can get in during set-up. But what I am told from contacts and what I have seen through the doors is a sea of LED displays. They are everywhere. Yesterday was the …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Viktor Petersson of Screenly June 8, 2016 by Super User Viktor Petersson is kind of “the man” when it comes to making digital signage run on a $45 Raspberry Pi mini PC. For the last four years, Viktor’s company Screenly has been focused on developing and evolving a signage solution specifically for the Raspberry Pi. In this episode of Sixteen:Nine Podcasts, we talk about why he went …
The InfoComm Blast Furnace Is On June 6, 2016 by Super User I am in Las Vegas this week, where it is a bit hot. This is what my rental car dashboard was telling me for the outside temperature at about 2 PM yesterday – 115 F. So if you are coming here for InfoComm this week, don’t worry about packing a sweater. I have a series …
