Signagelive Automates High Volume Video Content Production And Delivery Via Integration With Serb Start-up Plainly April 29, 2024 by Dave Haynes The UK CMS software firm Signagelive has a long history of looking around the corners at what’s now possible, or will be soon, when it comes to emerging technologies and software integrations. CEO Jason Cremins was talking, for example, about things like cloud, headless CMS and low/no code well before most other companies. Now the …
BrightSign Offers Sustainability-Focused Trade-In Incentive Program For EOL’d Players April 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes This may be common, for all I know, with tech hardware – but it’s new to me: an AV hardware manufacturer running a trade-in incentive plan. Silicon Valley-based BrightSign has launched a Trade-In Program that encourages end-users with end-of-life (EOL) or now underspec’d earlier versions of its little purple media players to return them and …
Clever Adidas Campaign Turns Stockholm DOOH Totems Into Competitive Running Checkpoints April 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is a clever campaign done to market Adidas in Stockholm, Sweden – a digital OOH campaign tied to an app that lets runners compete for times between ad totems that double up for this as race start and finish checkpoints. The Billboard Run asks avid runners to scan a QR code on a DOOH …
Video: E Ink Shows Its Full Range Of Color E-Paper Displays April 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Presumably timing this to Touch Taiwan this week and a big exhibit stand at that show, E Ink has put out a promo video that walks through its current product portfolio. Lots of display companies do that, of course, but most display companies have products that already look really good – whereas E Ink has …
Did You Know A Curved LED Wall Could Support Touch? Me Neither … April 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes When finer pitch LED video wall tech started coming on the market, one of the knocks other than the big one – high cost – was how the technology would not support touchscreen interactivity. The little light emitters were easily damaged or even knocked off, so big video walls were often roped off or had …
AI And The Other Technologies Helping Shape Experience In Auto Retailing April 25, 2024 by Robert Orndorff Guest Post: Robert Orndorff, Spectrio Customer experience, both pre and post sale, has always been at the heart of successful auto dealer operations, and steadily evolving display technologies are an increasingly big part of how those experiences are delivered and optimized. Screens in showrooms and waiting lounges are mainstays in most dealer environments, but emerging …
UK Firm Demos More Sensible Approach To Screens In Retail Chiller Fridges April 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes A UK retail hardware solutions firm called Theravada is at the Retail Technology Show in London this week, among many vendors, and is showing what it calls a Digital Food To Go Cabinet. It’s interesting because it is a more sensible approach to the idea of blending digital displays with retail infrastructure like chiller fridges. …
E Ink, AUO Partner To Develop Color E-Paper Poster Products Intended To Gradually Supplant Print Versions April 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes Two very different Taiwanese display manufacturers have teamed up up to develop e-paper displays aimed at gradually replacing the millions or billions of printed paper posters with richly colored, changeable, low-powered digital versions. E Ink has announced a strategic partnership and memorandum of understanding with AUO, one of the largest display manufacturers on the planet, …
Korbyt Anywhere Now Tied To Cisco’s Webex, Enabling Digital Signage On Meeting Displays April 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes Lots of announcements have found their way to my email inbox touting how CMS software companies have developed solutions that work with the video collaboration and meetings platforms Zoom and Microsoft Teams to turn inactive displays into digital signs, but I only remember one company that had also also integrated with Cisco’s Webex. Now there …
Loop Media’s Ongoing Losses Prompt Stock Listing Compliance Warning From NYSE April 24, 2024 by Dave Haynes The digital place-based streaming content service Loop Media, which has been cutting costs and executives amidst financial struggles, now has a letter from the NYSE American stock exchange giving it a month to come into compliance with traded stock listing standards. LA-based Loop says it got a letter from the exchange advising the compliance issue …
