Acer Adding Digital Signage To Its Bring Your Own Cloud Offer May 5, 2016 by Super User Taiwan’s Acer – which is into a bunch of things, from smartphones to small PCs – is touting its Build Your Own Cloud services platform as the hub for a digital signage solution offer. It pushed out a lengthy press release this week that I can’t really make much sense of, except that “BYOC plays …
NEXCOM Expands From Digital Signage Players To Free CMS Software May 5, 2016 by Super User The Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer NEXCOM has released its own, free digital signage management software, called PowerDigiS – aimed at the retail SMB market. The toolset is web-based and would seem – at least on paper – to be more than the barebones scheduling platforms I’ve seen a few times when hardware guys get into the …
8 Ways To Create Digital Signage Content That Rocks May 3, 2016 by Jorn Olsen Guest Post: Elena Lathrop, CrownTV Digital signage is only as effective as the content it displays. Screens are nothing but a medium, while content has the power to shape the customer experience and inspire action. You may have a few promotional graphics and social media feeds to share on your screens, but how do you create …
The LCD Bezel Battles Rage On, But Why? May 3, 2016 by Super User Digital signage display manufacturers have been in a pitched battle for years over whose product has the skinniest bezels, ands therefore the least discernible seams in video walls. First, we had narrow bezel. Then super narrow. And ultra narrow bezel. One manufacturer even, apparently with a straight face, now has super ultra narrow bezels. Which logically means …
Chart: LCD’s Future Is Big, As In Big Screens, Says IHS May 2, 2016 by Super User The latest IHS Digital Signage & Professional Displays Market Analysis – this one tied to Q1 2016 – says the slowdown in the economies of China, Latin America, and Eastern Europe actually shrunk the digital signage and professional display market by 3%, year on year, in 2015. But the market is coming around and is expected …
LG MRI Building Outdoor Displays To Survive And Thrive May 2, 2016 by Super User “Before we fabricate anything,” says Bill Dunn, as we’re walking into LG MRI’s 120,000 manufacturing plant, “we know that display is going to thrive, not just survive.” His company, based in the sprawling, heavily-wooded suburbs north of Atlanta, makes large-format outdoor displays for the out of home advertising business and, more recently, emerging markets like fast food …
Projects: Italy’s Postal Service Rolls Out 11,500 Digital Signs April 29, 2016 by Super User If you’ve been involved in this business for a few years, you’ll remember the “old days” when rollouts of any real size were big news. Now, big rollouts are commonplace and don’t even get much attention when they happen (unless your company got the deal). Consider this: The Italian Post Office has installed 11,500 digital signage …
The “Proof Of Play” Lie In Digital Signage April 28, 2016 by Nick Donaldson Guest Post: Nate Remmes, NanoLumens For companies paying good money for advertising, having validation that the ads they’ve paid for have actually played on screens when and where they are supposed to is of critical importance. The advertising industry has long relied on “Proof of Play,” or an auditing process that shows advertisers that their …
Creative Realities SEC Filings Show Yet More Red Ink For Blended Entitity April 28, 2016 by Super User The red ink story has continued at Creative Realities – the blended entity that includes elements of CRI, Wireless Ronin, Broadcast International and . The company filed its annual report with the SEC, which shows it had a net loss of just shy of $8 million for the 2015 fiscal year. Sales were down about …
Projects: SoCal University Fixes Digital Signage Budget Problem And Starts Course In Process April 27, 2016 by Super User Students at Southern California’s University of LaVerne have turned a problem into a small business – developing a low-cost digital signage solution for the campus library and in the process realizing the same set-up could be offered to area businesses. The library wanted to expand its messaging capability, but the commercial solution being used by the …
