Canada’s Bell Media Launches Ad Tech That Syncs Digital Billboards With Radio Ads November 9, 2023 by Super User Canada’s Bell Media has launched new technology that pairs roadside digital out of home billboards with commercial radio, with ge0-fenced ads on the outdoor LEDs synced with ads on specific radio stations. So, a motorist crawling along the 20 in Montreal or the Gardiner in Toronto might see an ad for the financial company Desjardins …
Las Vegas Sphere Reports $98.4M Loss … But That Mostly Covers Period Before Doors Opened November 9, 2023 by Super User That giant LED orb in Las Vegas has generated a huge amount of intention since it was lit up and the doors opened for paid admissions, and its backers are undoubtedly hoping it will generate the kind of money needed to make it viable – given that the most recent financials for the Sphere show …
Date And Time Window Now Set For Digital Signage Summit At ISE 2024 November 9, 2023 by Super User No details yet, but the Digital Signage Summit that’s part of Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) now has a date and time window for Barcelona. The mini-conference will run over four hours in the middle of the trade show day at the ISE venue, in one of the facility’s many, many meeting spaces. It is set …
Sharp, E Ink Collaboration Results In New Color E Poster That Leverages IGZO Technology November 9, 2023 by Super User E Ink and Sharp have collaborated on a color e paper display that goes beyond re-badging an existing E Ink product, combining that company’s Spectra tech with Sharp’s IGZO technology. I absolutely had to look up IGZO, and I now kinda sorta barely understand that it is technology used for the backplanes of digital displays, …
Removing Duplicates Frees Up About Dozen Tickets For Sold Out DSE Mixer November 8, 2023 by Super User Update: They’re gone š Good news – about a dozen tickets have come available for the otherwise sold out Sixteen:Nine Mixer coming up in a few weeks in Las Vegas. Out of confusion or people covering for each other or I don’t know what, there were several people double and even triple-registered. I went through …
AVI Systems CTO Sousa Passes Away At Company Event November 8, 2023 by Super User The digital signage and particularly the pro AV industry lost a well-known and evidently much liked veteran last night – with the CTO of big US integrator AVI Systems passing away while at a company event in Austin, Texas. Brad Sousa was in Austin with 150 other AVI employees for an event known as AVI …
Canadian DOOH Screens To Go (Almost) Black For Two Minutes Nov. 11 To Honor Veterans November 8, 2023 by Super User This is a nice initiative – a push to have digital out of home screens go black for two minutes in Canada on November 11th, which is called Remembrance Day. The Royal Canadian Legionās initiative sees media operators and their brand advertisers to mark two minutes of silence from 11:00 ā 11:02 a.m. – with …
Eastidea Marketing 2nd-Gen Of Integrated Projection Systems For Elevator Media November 8, 2023 by Super User A very, very long time ago, when TVs had tubes and cell phones were too big to slide into pockets, I got my start in digital signage with a company that put screens in office tower elevators. Back in 1999, it was hugely expensive and hugely complicated. PCs were still, generally, the size of carry-on …
Here’s The Global Ranking By Business Volume Of Digital Signage CMS Vendors November 7, 2023 by Florian Rotberg The German consultancy invidis is active on a whole bunch of fronts, from doing advisory work and putting on events to producing a German language publication covering the marketplace. Its big annual focus is a yearbook that does a deep dive into the industry – for the longest time focused on Europe but in the …
Netflix Planning Bricks And Mortar Attractions To Immerse Fans In Popular Shows (And Sell Stuff) November 7, 2023 by Super User Streaming entertainment giant Netflix is reportedly going a little down the path of Disney and Universal Studios, with plans to start opening bricks and mortarĀ locations that let consumers immerse themselves in aspects of favorite shows. First reported in Bloomberg (paywalled), and picked up by other media outlets, the Netflix House concept would start with …
