Hivestack Acquired By Ad Tech Firm Perion In $100M Cash Deal December 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes The programmatic platform company Hivestack has been acquired by another ad tech firm, Perion Network Ltd., for $100 million in cash. “We are excited about the acquisition of Hivestack, which both complements and advances our long-term growth strategy,” says Tal Jacobson, CEO of Perion, which has main offices in New York and Israel. “Hivestack’s DOOH …
Showcase Cinemas Sees 20% Lift In Food And Bev Sales After 568 Screen Modernization December 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes Wide ribbons of digital menu displays isn’t an overly new feature in the cinema business, but what’s interesting with a rollout across the Showcase Cinemas U.S. estate is word that the screens generate a 20% lift in sales at moviehouse snack counters. One of the world’s oldest and most recognized global theatre chains out there, …
Registration Now Live For The Sixteen:Nine Mixer In Barcelona, Jan. 29th December 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes Registration for the 2024 Sixteen:Nine Digital Signage Industry Mixer in Barcelona is now live. There are just roughly 180 tickets available (the venue capacity is limited) so you will want to act fast. Here are the details you will find on the registration page … Join us for the ISE 2024 SIXTEEN:NINE DIGITAL SIGNAGE MIXER …
What’s The State Of The Digital Signage Industry? Complete A Quick Survey To Share Insights And Data December 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes Help characterize the state of the digital signage marketplace by freeing up a few minutes to complete an online survey. Our German language content partners invidis are again doing a quarterly survey that establishes what it calls the Digital Signage Business Climate Index. The analysis generated from survey answers in the first half of 2023 revealed …
Huge Digital Facade Draws Eyes To Canadian Outerwear Brand Arc’teryx’s Toronto Flagship December 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a very impressive digital facade for the Canadian outerwear brand Arc’teryx, which has a flagship store in Toronto’s high-end Yorkdale Mall. I’ve seen lots of digital facades popping up in retail as LED has, in tandem, become less costly and more durable. But I’ve not seen one done at this kind of scale …
Reach Media’s Gibson Joins Three Re-Elected At-Large Members On 2024-25 DSF Board December 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Federation has announced the results of board of directors voting, with three of four open slots going to currently-serving board members and the final slot being won by Kiersten Gibson of Reach Media, who tried and failed last week to get me in with the Fireball shots crowd at the Sixteen:Nine Mixer. …
Seoul Creative Shop d’strict Opens Arte Museum On LV Strip December 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Seoul creative shop that generates some of the most compelling video wall content on the planet has opened a bricks and mortar showcase in Las Vegas that features, among many things, some of its best-known work. d’strict has opened up the Arte Museum in the steadily evolving City Center complex at Las Vegas Boulevard …
Registration SHOULD Go Up Tomorrow For Sixteen:Nine Mixer At ISE 2024 December 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes The DSE Mixer was just a week ago but now my planning turns pretty much immediately to Integrated Systems Europe and the mixer that will run in Barcelona in, gulp, just a matter of weeks. The PLAN is to put the registration site up live tomorrow morning, east coast Canada time. The venue is gorgeous …
Public Information Display Market Up Almost 14% Year On Year: Omdia December 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes New research released by Omdia suggests the public information display market has bounced back from a dip a year ago, with interactive displays being the biggest growth driver in sales and shipments. The research firm Omdia says in highlights from its fee-based Public Display Market Tracker 3Q23 that the public display market saw a 13.8% …
Visionect Release CMS Tuned And Optimized For E-Paper Displays December 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes For logical reasons, I think we all get so fixated on the energy-sipping “green” characteristics of e-paper displays that we kind of forget that software manages and drives these things, just as it does for LCDs, OLEDs and LEDs. The Slovenian firm Visionect has been focused for years and years on making monochrome e-paper displays …
