Industry Wake-up Call: Audio From Digital Signage Summit Europe 2024, With Florian and Stefan From Invidis June 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes I managed to talk the AV team running the main conference room at the recent Digital Signage Summit in Munich to give me the audio off the board for three of the sessions I either moderated or spoke on. The third of three that I did was an unscripted chat with conference hosts Florian Rotberg …
Big Nike Stores In Europe Use Gesture-Sensing LED Walls To Market High-Tech Apparel Line June 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Nike is using big interactive LED display walls, gesture sensing cameras and interactive software to market its Dri-Fit apparel at three of its big-city, flagship-y stores during the UEFA European Men’s Football Championships. The set-ups are at Nike’s Paris House Of Innovation, Nike Town London and Nike Berlin Tauentzienstraße, and thank God I don’t have …
LED Touchline Display Seemingly Passes Ruggedization Test In Front Of Global Football Audience June 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes The men’s Euro 2024 football championship is on right now, and given huge global TV viewing interest, there are LED ribbon displays all along the touchlines of the playing surfaces of the host stadiums. I mention this because in yesterday’s France vs Austria match, French star Antoine Griezmann got slammed by an Austrian defender into …
Samsung Broadens Use Of SmartThings IOT Devices To Pro AV Applications June 17, 2024 by Florian Rotberg Guest Post: Florian Rotberg, invidis (This post first appeared on the German language site of content partner invidis) Samsung presented SmartThings Pro, a further development of the established IoT platform with B2B functions, at Infocomm 24. The focus is on more sustainable, better automated and more experience-rich digital signage concepts. A preview was already available …
New Industry Report Suggests Booming Business, However … June 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes I tend to put quotation marks around the word “research” when that “research” originates from a “research” factory in Pune, India, but I will at least give a company called Emergen Research a nod for demonstrating some baseline sense of the digital signage industry in its 2024-2032 industry report and forecast. Most of the reports …
Final Notes And Thoughts From InfoComm June 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes Halifax is not that far from Las Vegas, really, but between long connections and time zone differences I left my hotel at 9 am Friday and stumbled through my front door at 3 AM Saturday. So Saturday was mostly spent sitting on my comfy chair, bubbles on my lips, staring into space. I know there …
Free And Well Worth The Click: The 2024 Digital Signage Yearbook Now Available For Download June 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes There is not a lot of in-depth insights and interview work done that is specific to the digital signage sector, and much of what is available involves very limited briefs that point to paywalled material, so the annual digital signage yearbook produced by German content partner invidis is pretty much unique because of its depth …
InfoComm 2024’s Wrap-Up Shows Bigger Las Vegas Numbers Than Orlando’s From 2023 June 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes There was some casual chatter around InfoComm last week that the show seemed a bit slow, but the numbers now released by show owner and operator AVIXA tell a different story – with counts up in terms of attendees, exhibitors and show footprint. Total registrants for InfoComm 2024 were just shy of 37,000 (36,967) and …
InfoComm Day 2 – A Big Ooops And A Fantastic Mixer June 14, 2024 by Dave Haynes At airport, heading home. so there will be no Day 3 InfoComm insights report. I am not sure what I would write if I had a third day, if the intent was to report on genuinely new stuff. Lots of great stuff, but I saw and wrote about it out of ISE. Day 2 was …
Mixer Day At InfoComm! June 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes The big digital signage industry mixer is tonight. Here are the basics you need to know: You need a ticket. We have a hard cap on numbers, so walk-ups are not workable We sold out in two hours, which was a surprise, not a plan or plot. We are so sorry if you missed the …
