Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Stu Armstrong of ComQi June 1, 2016 by Super User In this episode of Sixteen:Nine Podcasts, I’m speaking with Stu Armstrong, President of the Americas for ComQi, a CMS software and services company with offices in London, New York and Toronto. Stu talks about the opportunities and challenges of working with the retail sector, and how after many years, signage is getting some serious traction …
Digital Meeting Room Signs Start-up Gets $7M Series A Raise June 1, 2016 by Super User I keep reading and hearing how venture capital is hard to come by these days, in digital signage and well beyond, but one Boston-based company has scored a $7 million investment to drive its business in digital meeting room signs. Yup, that boring little killer application that sells itself as soon as people see it. …
Six Tips On Creating Effective Playlists For Digital Signage June 1, 2016 by Niel Rieger Guest Post: Mark McDermott, ScreenCloud Personalization has long been recognized as the key to cutting through noise in our over-saturated digital world. In digital signage, where you have just seconds to grab attention against the passer-by’s friends, iPhone or work schedule, it’s even more crucial. Let’s say your audience is in the 50-65 year-old cohort. You’ve …
Vertigo Digital Displays Acquired By Smart Cities Firm CIVIQ May 31, 2016 by Super User Toronto-based outdoor display fabricator Vertigo Digital Displays has been acquired by CIVIQ Smartscapes, the relatively new company that is supplying “connected urban infrastructure technologies” in emerging “smart cities” like New York. CIVIQ Smartscapes is the named owner, but the real owner is JMC Capital Partners, the private equity firm behind CIVIQ. The deal means Ralph Idems and …
IT and AV, Another Look May 31, 2016 by David Kaszycki Guest Post: Alan Brawn, Brawn Consulting Over the last 15 years, there have been countless articles written about the convergence of AV and IT. In the mid-90s, some held out that AV and IT were distinct and there was no reason to converge. Live and let live was a common theme in the day and …
DSrupted 2016? Nope. May 30, 2016 by Super User Several people have asked me if I will be organizing a third version of DSrupted, a conference focused on emerging and disruptive technologies in the signage market. The short answer is No. And here’s the longer answer: The 2015 and 2015 conferences generated very positive feedback, and the events confirmed my sense that there is …
Projects: Hyundai’s Kuwait Flagship Drives Big Video Walls May 30, 2016 by Super User This is the showroom at Hyundai’s flagship store in Kuwait, using a set of thin-bezel Sharp displays. There are two of these video walls in the showroom. The project was put together by Dubai-based 2point0 Concepts and a sister company, Kuwait-based DeLite Engineering. The screens are powered by 2point0’s own CMS, iSignage.
InfoComm Lists 361 Digital Signage Exhibitors – Some Who Actually Do Digital Signage May 26, 2016 by Super User InfoComm has never really been a big show for the software side of the digital signage business, and that’s a trend that continues in a couple of weeks in Las Vegas. There are 361 exhibitors that have associated themselves to the digital signage category, among many, in the exhibitor directory. But I don’t think there are …
Capital Networks Celebrates 25 Years In Business May 25, 2016 by Super User Digital signage is still a pretty young industry, so it’s interesting to come across a note that says one of the software companies active in the sector just turned 25. Capital Networks Limited was started in 1991 in suburban Toronto by Bill Trainor, who still runs the company. The company started as a software and …
E Ink Debuts 32-Inch Display That Can Wrap Around Bus Stop Post May 25, 2016 by Super User Turns out there are two interesting product releases coming out of E Ink this week at the display nerd show SID in San Francisco. I wrote a few hours ago about a new rich color e-paper display technology, but the company has also showed off a 32-inch flexible, lightweight display aimed at public transport and …
