New Directory Site For Digital Signage’s Gateway Drug January 27, 2016 by Super User A new online directory, Meeting Room Signs, has gone live, offering an easy, comprehensive tool for connecting buyers and sellers in the fast-emerging digital meeting room sign and digital door sign business. Meeting room signs are what I call the gateway drug for digital signage. I’ve talked to lots of vendors who say this simple, easily …
18 Surprising Statistics About Digital Signage January 27, 2016 by Sean Levy GUEST POST: Irfan Khan, SkyKit As a savvy businessperson, you know that digital signage is a huge, well-established market. You see them everywhere: promoting a new product in the store, advertising deals outside pharmacies—perhaps even touting diaper rash cream, as one sign in my hometown has done for at least the last five years. You’ve …
Research Firm Peoplecount Launches Audience Analytics Platform Built Around Smartphones Looking For WiFi January 27, 2016 by Super User Toronto research firm Peoplecount, which has focused for many years on out of home and place-based media, has developed its own WiFi-driven location analytics platform, called Placescount. The system passively detects WiFi-enabled smartphones, delivering real-time metrics on dwell time, return trips and footpath analytics. The turnkey service is geared to out-of-home and place-based media operators, as …
NRF Review – Digital Technology: The New Way Of Retail January 26, 2016 by Josh Gross GUEST POST: TARA PARACHUK, ARMODILO If you are a retailer looking to engage your customers with digital technology, NRF was the place to be! Retail’s Big Show 2016 showcased a variety of ways retailers can learn more about their customers from their current emotional state to every possible type of analytics you can imagine. Here’s an …
California Digital Signage CMS Start-Up Launches $250,000 Crowdfunding Campaign January 26, 2016 by Super User A Pleasant Hill, CA startup called Squizz has started a $250,000 crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to bankroll inventory and new features, and stimulate some sales and PR buzz in the process. The campaign has a variety of levels, from $10 to $10,000 for something akin to a franchise or reseller set-up. The money would be used …
Monster Settles Social Media Visualization Patent Dispute With TigerLogic January 26, 2016 by Super User Orlando-based Monster Media has reached a settlement in the patent infringement action it filed in New York courts last summer against Portland,OR-based TigerLogic Corp, over the use of methods that put real time social media posts on digital signs. The terms of the settlement are, as you might expect, confidential. “The value of our Intellectual Portfolio enables continued innovation …
Elo Adds Android Modules To Retail-Centric Touch Displays January 25, 2016 by Super User On the heels of Panasonic announcing a System on Chip pro display panel comes word that Elo – among the oldest and biggest companies involved in touchscreen tech – now has ARM-based micro computer modules paired with some of its displays, running Android. This new Android Elo Computer Module (Android ECM) accessory, says the Silicon …
DMG And Sister Companies Rebrand, Simply, As Diversified January 25, 2016 by Super User Diversified Systems, based in Kenilworth, New Jersey, has announced a simple, logical rebranding as Diversified – bringing three related companies under the single, tightened-up brand. Diversified is made up of Diversified Systems, Diversified Media Group (DMG), and Skyweb Digital Media. The combined companies will, says a news release, continue to service clients across the globe in …
Navori Powering Massive 20K+ Tablet Ad Network In Saudi Arabia Taxis January 25, 2016 by Super User The Swiss signage software firm Navori has a monster rollout underway in Middle Eastern countries, using its on-premise QL management and play-out software on tablets installed as media screens in some 20,000 taxis, with another 30,000 to come. It would have to be one of the larger signage and digital OOH rollouts out there, and …
NEC To Start Shipping Long-Lasting Laser-Based Projectors For Signage & Projection Mapping January 22, 2016 by Super User Projectors with laser light engines have been around the cinema space for a while now, but the technology is now starting to find its way into other commercial applications – including indoor signage and indoor projection mapping. NEC has introduced a single-chip DLP 8,000-lumen laser projector it says is the first of its kind in …
