What’s Direct View LED? March 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Sticking To Software Drives Big Growth Spike For Indoor Mapping Firm Jibestream March 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes Jibestream is a Toronto-based indoor mapping specialist company that has been working around the edges of the digital signage market for the past six or seven years, and some recent strategic shifts have really helped the company get marketplace traction, with triple-digit growth. The company has moved from a small space in the inner suburbs to much …
Hybrid Display Totem Bridges Digital And Print March 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes We all know the world is going digital and things like brochures and pamphlets don’t have a big future – but it’s not a shift that’s going to happen abruptly. Go to a car dealership or bank, or real estate presentation centre, and you are still going to see a lot of printed material being …
Finland’s Valota Brings Visualized Salesforce Data To Digital Signage March 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes One of my last meetings at DSE a week ago was a post-show Day 2 sit-down over a couple of beers (yay!) with the guys who run Valota, a Finnish software content company that is taking a different approach to subscription content feeds. They have Euro-centric versions of the standard news, sports and entertainment stuff …
Adobe Previews Smart Screens And Smart Bags In Concept Store March 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes Some clients and contacts have been telling me lately that creative production software giant Adobe is starting to get active in the digital signage space – a logical move as the creative they enable – like print and OOH advertising – shifts from analog to digital. The company has its big annual Adobe Summit on in Las …
InfoComm Gets European Help For Las Vegas Digital Signage Summit March 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes The big pro AV trade show InfoComm has for several years had some sort of digital signage educational conference running ahead of the exhibit hall opening, and there will be another one this year – with a European twist. The conference’s educational component – InfoComm will deal with the commercial/sponsor end of things – is …
Projects: Etisalat’s Screen-Filled Concept Stores March 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes Here’s a video look at what Dallas-based RMG Networks is driving in the retail wireless stores of the UAE-based telecom Etisalat. The wireless carrier has a range of screens around its larger stores, and is expected to kit out roughly 100 with digital signage by the end of this year. The concept stores have interactive …
