5 Myths About Digital Signage March 30, 2016 by Luis Villafane Guest Post, Richard Fortin, ITES Media The digital signage industry has been growing quickly in the last few years. Big players in retail and large companies have both adopted this method of communication. It is, regardless, a fairly young industry that evolves rapidly and this creates misconceptions. We have therefore decided to dispel five of the …
US FDA Again Delays Calorie Count Rules For Restaurant Menu Boards March 30, 2016 by Super User The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has again delayed enforcement of menu labeling rules, pushing the need for restaurant chains to show calorie counts on menus and menu displays into 2017. Associated Press reports that the final rules released in 2014 were first stipulating that restaurants and other establishments that sell prepared foods and have 20 …
Apple Goes Big With LED Video Wall At Next-Generation Store In Memphis March 29, 2016 by Super User Memphis is likely not the first locale many people would peg for an iconic brand to open its first next-generation store in its home country. But that’s where Apple has opened a new store design concept that has a massive fine pixel pitch LED video wall as its signature feature. The store opened last week, and that …
Projects: Queensland Private School Lights Up Its Wonder Room March 29, 2016 by Super User A private co-ed school in the Brisbane/Gold Coast part of Australia has turned on what it calls the Wonder Room – a specially-kitted classroom that features a five-panel multi-touch video used by both students and teachers. Put together by the Australian firm Prendi, the Wonder Room at All Saints Anglican School has a seamless Multitaction video wall that …
Audio: Post-DSE Impressions From Hughes Webinar March 29, 2016 by Super User Here’s the audio track (below … click on the red Soundcloud arrow to get started) for that webinar I did Friday with the media solutions folks at Hughes. I joined Senior Marketing Manager Curtis Campbell and Mike Tippets, the VP of Media Solutions at Hughes, to share our collective thoughts on what we saw a couple …
Sign Expo Trying Again To Add Digital Signage Element March 28, 2016 by Super User The mainstream sign industry’s biggest trade show, Sign Expo, will be trying once again later this month to expand its reach into the digital signage business, with another “dynamic digital park” and a handful of conference speakers. The International Sign Association people have been trying this for a few years now, and it just doesn’t …
What’s Direct View LED? March 28, 2016 by Super User One of things that was confusing me a little bit when I walked around some display company booths a couple of weeks ago at Digital Signage Expo was the different names getting applied to indoor LED display walls. I’ve tended to call them fine pixel pitch LED walls, or just indoor LED. But I’ve heard, here …
Webinar Thursday On Getting Paid Faster On SaaS Deals March 28, 2016 by Super User The Toronto company that is marketing a way for companies to bring forward revenue from digital signage SaaS deals is doing another webinar this Thursday on how the arrangement works. The pitch from the SaaS Lending Group, which is part of Alliance Financing, is debt financing in the form of a term loan that gets tied to …
Combo Digital OOH Screen And Vending Machine Start-Up Gets $2M Bump In Shark Tank March 28, 2016 by Super User A New York City start-up that combines digital OOH screens and wall-mounted vending machines got a big PR bump and cash infusion the other night by cutting a deal on the US reality TV show Shark Tank. Vengo Labs co-founders Brian Shimmerlik and Steven Bofill wangled a $2 million deal with a pair of the …
Chief Broadens Offer To Include Turnkey Services March 27, 2016 by Super User The whole turnkey solution thing for digital signage has been around forever – sold by pure-play “solutions providers/integrators” – but also, more recently, by software companies looking to add more margin-based revenues and close deals by saying to clients that they’ll pull all the bits together. Now we’re seeing other elements of the signage eco-system …
