Loop Media Rings NYSE Opening Bell As It Builds Free Digital Signage/DOOH Footprint In US February 16, 2023 by Super User Linkedin regularly has giddy photos of groups of business people surrounding the boss as she or he rings the bell at the New York Stock Exchange, and a recent one caught my eye, as the firm is in the DOOH media networks business. Loop Media develops and supports a series of curated music video and …
DSF Pulls Crowd For Louisville Meet And Mingle Event February 16, 2023 by Super User It looks like the Digital Signage Federation pulled a good crowd for its networking event in Louisville, Kentucky last night – with a nice fringe benefit to the meet-up being a look around the venue, the famed Churchill Downs horse racing track that is home to the Kentucky Derby. The industry association’s events are done …
Broadsign, LG Partner On DOOH Ad Solution For Smart Displays February 15, 2023 by Super User LG’s US Business Solutions unit and DOOH-focused CMS software firm Broadsign has announced a partnership that has what’s dubbed Broadsign for SoC ready to use on the display giant’s multiple lines of proprietary OS “smart” displays. There are numerous software firms that have developed native or web players for LG’s System-On-Chip “smart” displays, but the …
Registration Opens For InfoComm 2023; Mid-June In Orlando February 15, 2023 by Super User Registration has opened for InfoComm 2023, which is set for June 14-16 at at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida. The largest pro AV show on the continent, which cycles each year between Las Vegas and Orlando and features two different variations on insanely hot weather, is expected to host more than 600 …
Chalk Elevated To VP Sales For BrightSign February 14, 2023 by Super User Analytics tell me readers aren’t all that interested in news about new hires and titles at companies, but BrightSign ships a LOT of little purple media play-out boxes, so news of who is now running sales at the Silicon Valley company will matter to all kinds of resellers and integrators. Misty Chalk has been bumped …
SignageLab Leverages SignageOS Platform To Create Full Digital Signage Platform February 14, 2023 by Super User I am catching up on notes from ISE, which is already two weeks ago, and trying to relate some of the quicker conversations I had. Every time I go to a big show like ISE, I run into unfamiliar companies, and I try – when I can – to stop and have a chat, so …
Nexmosphere’s Sensors, Controllers And Toolkit Aimed At Making Interactive Retail Easy February 14, 2023 by Super User Way, way back in the day – in my dark period doing business development work for software companies – the company I was with did a fair amount of custom work that involved triggering content to screens using sensors. If someone came within a certain range of a screen, or lifted something that made a …
Accenture Ventures Makes Strategic Investment In Holographic Display Maker Looking Glass February 10, 2023 by Super User The huge professional service/consulting company Accenture has made what it describes as a strategic investment through its Accenture Ventures wing in the holographic displays developed and marketed by Brooklyn-based Looking Glass Factory. Accenture says tech like the Looking Glass displays – which have some depth and change what viewers see based on angle – “offers …
Big Oops: Windows Error On DOOH Screen At NYC World Trade-Fulton Concourse February 9, 2023 by Super User A reader passed along this visual reminder about the risks of using consumer operating systems on digital signage jobs. This is a big video wall in one of the walkways connecting the World Trade Center are in New York with transport hubs. The error message has to do with hard disk storage. It has been …
Vast 360-Degree Projection Set-Up Drives Ohio University’s Maker Space February 9, 2023 by Super User It seems like every case study and press release I’ve read lately that involved blended projectors was for an immersive attraction – like Illuminarium or Montreal’s Oasis Immersion. So it’s interesting to get a story about a US university using a series of blended projections as the core aspect of a new lab built to …