TouchSource Broadens Digital Footprint By Acquiring Healthcare Business Of True Sync Media June 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes Denver-based TouchSource, which does digital signage and wayfinding solutions focused on healthcare environments, has done a deal to acquire TrueSync Health, the healthcare business division of True Sync Media, which is also based in Denver. The TrueSync Health deal gives TouchSource a footprint of 100s of screens in patient waiting rooms across different healthcare system, …
STRATACACHE Adds European Retail Services Capabilities Via Acquisition of German Firm MasterPoint June 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE has sorted out how it can expand its retail media network activity in western/central Europe, acquiring a Cologne, Germany company that specializes in digital signage systems integration, operation and field services. The Dayton, Ohio solutions company has acquired MasterPoint, giving the company an experienced team of project managers, technicians, engineers and installers to work …
Snap Install – InfoComm 2024 Digital Signage Industry Mixer Sponsor Profiles June 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes InfoComm is next week in Las Vegas, and Sixteen:Nine has partnered with Experience United Social Club to run what is a very sold-out networking event. This one is at a darts-themed bar called Flight Club, in the Palazzo complex. There will will be a little discussion about what was seen on the show floor, then networking …
Integrator McCann Systems Brings On Harp To Lead Digital Experience Efforts June 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes AV systems integrator McCann Systems has hired on Brandon Harp as its Director of Digital Experiences, charged with further building out that side of the Wallingford, CT-based company’s business. I don’t normally post about new hires that aren’t C-level, and even then analytics show readers don’t much care about new CFO hires, but Harp is …
Sync’d LED Torches Turn Stadium Seating Bowl Into One Big Display June 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes Back in 2012, the main stadium for the London Olympics had little nine LED light arrays attached to seats, which enabled ambient low-rez visuals to be part of the “experience” during things like the main ceremonies. Some 14 years on, the technology that could so that sort of thing has, of course, grown more sophisticated …
Big Roadside LED Ad Board Catches Fire In Malaysia, Briefly Trapping Maintenance Workers On Top Of Burning Screen June 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes A big LED ad board along a major roadway on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia caught fire on Friday, trapping nine workers who were on top of the thing doing maintenance. The fire is being attributed to a short circuit on the base of the display, but the workers – who all managed …
Atmosphere Joins Place-Based Streaming TV Rival Loop In Announcing Layoffs June 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes The other company that’s been on a tear in recent years make free, DOOH ad-supported streaming TV channels available to businesses has also now hit something of business wall, with Austin, TX-based Atmosphere TV announcing significant layoffs, on the heels of rival Loop Media also laying off staff in March. Rarefield Atmosphere, Inc., the business …
Legrand | AV – InfoComm 2024 Digital Signage Industry Mixer Sponsor Profiles May 31, 2024 by Dave Haynes InfoComm is in just a couple of weeks in Las Vegas, and Sixteen:Nine has partnered with Experience United Social Club to run what is a very sold-out networking event. This one is at a darts-themed bar called Flight Club, in the Palazzo complex. There will will be a little discussion about what was seen on the show …
Does This In-Aisle Digital Marketing Display Set-Up Go Too Far? May 31, 2024 by Dave Haynes It would be interesting to get a read on the measurable impacts – sales, obviously, but also things like brand awareness – for this digital in-aisle display set-up in the UK, spotted on Linkedin, for a brand that’s marketing and merchandising what they call crisps over there. Tactics like putting screens right at the shelf-edge …
i5LED – InfoComm 2024 Digital Signage Industry Mixer Sponsor Profiles May 30, 2024 by Dave Haynes InfoComm is in just a couple of weeks in Las Vegas, and Sixteen:Nine has partnered with Experience United Social Club to run what is a very sold-out networking event. This one is at a darts-themed bar called Flight Club, in the Palazzo complex. There will will be a little discussion about what was seen on the show …
