Canadian Elevator Screen Network Expanding Into 10X-Sized US Market July 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Canadian media firm Vertical City is expanding its core product – screens in elevators – into the much larger US market. The Edmonton company says its Vertical Impression screen network hopes to reach into more than 130 ad markets in the two countries. “Our goal is to become the largest elevator screen network in …
Spectrio Acquires inReality, Adding AI-Driven Venue Analytics To Solution Stack July 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Tampa-based digital signage software and solutions firm Spectrio has added to its solution stack with the acquisition of inReality, an Atlanta-area company that does audience engagement and analytics. Disclaimer – Spectrio acquired and now publishes Sixteen:Nine. From the announcement: Spectrio, one of the nation’s leading providers of comprehensive digital signage systems, has broadened an …
Store In QSR Giant Chain Uses Printed Labels To Hide Out Of Stock Items On Digital Menu Screens July 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is just sad – a major QSR chain using printed labels that staff evidently use to indicate out-of-stock menu items on the digital menu display boards behind the order counter. We have all seen this sort of thing in places like food court malls – but the operators of those tend to be one-offs …
Tim Horton’s Adds Order Status Displays, LED Halo To Stores July 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Canadian coffee chain Tim Horton’s was an early adopter of digital menu displays, rolling them out across Canada and elsewhere long before many of its competitors. And it now appears to be making the welcomed addition of order status screens in busy stores. An industry friend sent me a photo of Timmy’s in Bancroft, …
Wrap-up And Photos From Invidis On Digital Signage Summit Europe July 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s the translated take, as well as a photo gallery, from invidis, the German consulting and publishing firm that hosted this week’s Digital Signage Europe in Munich: The participants have already left, but the positive feedback that invidis and ISE received for this year’s DSS Europe still reverberates in our heads. With the Digital Signage …
Global Digital Signage Displays Business Expected To Surpass $18.6 Billion In 2023: Omdia July 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes The research firm Omdia has pushed out some information nuggets from a paywalled report about key themes observed last month at InfoComm in Orlando, and suggesting the digital signage display market will be an $18 billion-plus business in 2023. This year’s display products showcased a wide range of use cases for LCD, OLED, and direct-view …
How Analytics Tools Can Give Digital Signage Networks Superpowers July 7, 2023 by Dave Haynes Low-cost sensors and easily shared and integrated data sources are taking much of the guesswork out of on-premises digital signage, making it possible to finally realize a long-held goal of putting the right messages on the right screens at just the right times. But analytics platforms that characterize audiences and venues are not just about …
Digital Signage Summit Europe Impressions: Day 2 July 6, 2023 by Dave Haynes Digital Signage Summit Europe wrapped up today in Munich and I can very honestly say I thought it was great. Very well run. Great educational sessions. Just enough vendors (26) given the allowed time. A good, very handy venue. And a LOT of networking opportunities. I met SO many people from European companies that I …
Vericast, Intel Partner On Context-Driven Retail Media Networks Solution June 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes The marketing solutions firm Vericast has partnered with Intel on what’s described as a new, programmatically-enabled digital in-store retail media network, having come out of a trial deployment in 50 c-stores. The solution pairs Vericast’s “intelligent targeting technology” and Intel’s Edge software platforms “to deliver contextually relevant advertising and product information throughout the shopping experience. …
UK CMS Start-Up Fugo Bucks Larger Trend And Moves TO Windows Devices June 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes While much of the digital signage industry seems to be shifting to Android, dedicated devices like BrightSign and SpinetiX boxes, and special purpose operating systems for smart displays, the UK-based digital signage CMS start-up Fugo has taken the interesting step of unveiling a media player based on Microsoft’s Windows. Since its launch in 2020, the …
