Screenly First Digital Signage CMS Software Company To Sign Multinational Secure By Design Pledge July 31, 2024 by Dave Haynes With the global IT outage a very recent memory, and still not fully resolved for some CrowdStrike customers, software security and IT best practises are now (or certainly should be) big discussion points across organizations and industries. Numerous digital signage CMS software providers have had announcements in the past year or two about attaining security …
Hey Google, Where’s The Digital Signage In Your New Manhattan Offices? July 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Wall Street Journal has posted an interesting video – like other newspapers, WSJ can’t just be words and pix these days – about Google’s newest office space in New York City, a huge office built inside of and on top of a historic rail terminal building on the lower west side of Manhattan. It’s …
Here’s a Different, Clever Approach To Adding Digital To Mass Transit Stop Shelters July 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes Digital out of home displays at higher profile mass transit stops are commonplace these days, but most of those deployed around the world are high brightness LCDs built in some way or another into the bus shelter. This one in Mumbai takes a very different approach. It’s a two element outdoor LED display that has …
Swiss OOH Media Companies Facing Existential Threat From Local Government Bans July 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes Filling the screen inventory with enough ads to pay their way is normally the biggest challenge for digital out of home media companies, but in Switzerland, the challenge is becoming existential – as the highest court in that country has cleared the way for municipalities to banish commercial advertising in public spaces. The ruling this …
JCDecaux Having Strong 2024, With Revenue Up 14% Overall But DOOH Up 28% July 29, 2024 by Dave Haynes The largest outdoor advertising company on the planet is seemingly having a happy 2024, with JCDecaux’s half-year results showing group revenue up 14%, with digital being a big driver of that success. DOOH revenues were up 28.3% (27.8% on an organic basis) and digital display is now 36.8% of group revenue, versus 32.7% for the …
UK University Team Develops Touch Screens That Can Be Squishy When Pushed By A Finger July 29, 2024 by Dave Haynes Researchers at a UK university have come with what they suggest is a new kind of touchscreen technology that’s squishy and responds to the user’s finger pressure, becoming softer or stiffer. Computer scientists at the University of Bath say the technology, dubbed DeformIO, has at least the potential to change how people interact with digital …
Happy Trails To A Retired Craig Marshall, Now Ex Of Omnivex! July 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes Happy trails to Craig Marshall, who retired this week after almost 25 years in the digital signage business, all with Toronto-based CMS software firm Omnivex. His now ex-boss Doug Bannister: We know Craig has formed countless relationships over the years with Omnivex customers, partners, and employees, which is why we are making this announcement today. …
French Theme Park Blends Projection Mapping Into New Immersive Water Attraction July 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here is a fun take on an immersive projection mapping experience in an active water-based attraction – a new addition to the Futuroscope theme park in west-central France. Aquascope is a 6,000-square-metre indoor water park, and it has a crazy set of endlessly-winding water slides for kids of all ages. But the interesting feature, in …
Towering Mesh LED Used As Signature Video Wall In Lobby Of Refurbished Chicago Workplace Hub July 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is what’s referred to as the signature screen in the lobby of a refurbished office block in downtown Chicago’s South Loop. 801 South Canal is now known as Canal Station, a new workplace hub that encompasses 6-storeys and 850,000-square-foot in a former single tenant office building. It is next to the newly renovated Old …
Demand Appears To Have Dried Up For Large Commercial OLED Displays – Omdia Research Report July 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Demand for OLED displays used for tablets and laptops has spiked this year, but the use of very large OLEDs as public information displays (aka digital signage) has all but evaporated, according to an analysis from the research firm Omdia. Overall, Omdia’s latest Large Area Display Market Tracker for 1Q24 says shipments of large-area OLEDs sized …
