Sweden’s ZetaDisplay Buys Finnish DS Firm Marketmedia February 19, 2015 by Dave Haynes More news of consolidation in the digital signage sector – this time from Northern Europe. Sweden’s ZetaDisplay has reached an agreement to buy Marketmedia Oy, which is described as the largest digital signage firm in Finland. ZetaDisplay is picking up a firm that’s running EBITDA-positive, has a turnover of about $4 million USD, and a bunch …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: NoviSign February 19, 2015 by Dave Haynes Gil Matzliah, CEO, Novisign DSE Booth: FT16 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? NoviSign brings a fresh angle to the traditional Digital Signage world. NoviSign realizes that the Digital Sign on the wall is not relevant anymore, unless the audience can actually interact …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: Via Technologies February 18, 2015 by Dave Haynes Charles Regula, Director of Business Development, Via Technologies Booth 1845 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? DSE visitors who are interested in commercial-grade Android solutions should put the VIA booth on their must see list. With the ALTA DS and ALTA DS 2 we offer …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: Vertigo Digital Displays February 17, 2015 by Dave Haynes Bruno Pupo, Vice President Global Sales & Marketing, Vertigo Digital Displays Inc. Booth 1823 Why do people going to DSE need to put Vertigo on their Must See list of booths? Vertigo will be unveiling and showcasing several new outdoor and semi-outdoor rated products for Retail, Property Management, Way-Finding and Drive-Thru menu applications. What’s your big marketing …
Projects: Tablet Choir Does Beethoven’s Ode To Joy February 14, 2015 by Dave Haynes And here we have 300 tablets all synced together, with Android avatars, singing Beethoven’s Ode To Joy as part of a Google Japan promotion. Extroverts at a shopping mall in Japan, where this was installed this week, got a T-shirt if they tried conducting the choir, via a gesture sensor. Digital signage? Well, sorta, given …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: Rise Vision February 13, 2015 by Dave Haynes Ryan Cahoy, Managing Director, Rise Vision/Rise Display Booth 126 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Rise Vision will be featuring Google Chromeboxes and how users can leverage our free platform with low cost Chromebox hardware to drive digital signage. Google has created a lot of …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: NEC Display February 13, 2015 by Dave Haynes NEC Display Solutions, DSE Booth No. 2213 Ashley Flaska, VP Marketing Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? NEC Display will unveil its solutions and strategy for Ultra-High Definition displays in its booth. These UHD displays are 4x the resolution of full HD. While there …
NEC Display Names Bouman New President And CEO February 13, 2015 by Dave Haynes NEC Display Solutions has announced its new President and CEO of the Americas, with ex-Samsung exec Todd Bouman taking the post held for many years by Pierre Richer. Bouman was previously Vice President, Marketing for commercial displays and mobile products in the Enterprise Business Division at Samsung Electronics Americas. “Todd is a top performer and will …
Data Visualization: How The World Reacted To Kanye, Sia Et Al At Grammys February 10, 2015 by Dave Haynes I have been blabbering on for anyone that will listen about the possibilities good data visualization has for digital signage. I stress good because a lot of the visually interesting stuff I have seen falls down a little when you try to decode what the information is conveying. In other words, it can look cool, …
If You Don’t Really Do Device Management, You Don’t Really Do Digital Signage February 10, 2015 by Dave Haynes I was on a call recently with a guy from one of the more well-established companies in the digital signage software market, and as we wrapped up, he of course asked what I thought. Really good, as expected, I said, but maybe the device management was a little threadbare compared to some others I’d seen. …
