ISE Sixteen:Nine Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Videri January 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is fully back after COVID-era disruptions, and Sixteen:Nine is doing a Barcelona version of the networking mixer it has been staging annually at DSE in Las Vegas for the past decade or so. The event (sold out, sorry!) happens because of eight great sponsors who help cover the considerable costs. I like …
Almost 14,000 Digital Billboard Faces Across US: Billboard Insider January 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes Billboard Insider has a very useful post up that lists the 236 U.S. media companies it knows about that have digital displays in their inventory. The 237 companies account for 13,826 digital faces. The list is bulletin and poster. We have excluded transit and place-based. A face is a face. One digital face is one …
Japanese DOOH Firm, Broadcaster Partner On Live Content On Digital Boards Around Country January 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes A pair of Japanese companies have partnered on a service that can put live broadcasting on 75 big LED display boards located around that country – aiming to relay everything from live sports and concerts to press conferences. There is, of course, no great technical leap happening here. It’s just a signal input. But the …
BrightSign To Preview New Pair Of Budget-Friendly Media Players At ISE 2023 January 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes BrightSign always draws a crowd at ISE and other trade shows, and those integrators and resellers heading to Barcelona in 10 days or so will get a glimpse of two new boxes added to the media player company’s line-up of little purple media players. Both boxes are being positioned as affordable and entry-level, will be …
LG’s Semi-Transparent LED Film Featured Over Entry To Healthcare Provider’s New HQ January 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s a nice use of LG’s LED on transparent film product – above the corner entry of a healthcare provider’s new offices in downtown Hartford, CT. The 14mm pixel pitch film day, which is 53% transparent, went up recently at the new HQ of Hartford Healthcare. LG sales engineer Michael Warner noted on Linkedin that …
Family Buys ANC Back From Company It Sold To In 2015 January 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes The digital signage and video experience company ANC has been bought back from the college sports-focused company that acquired it in 2015, by the family that sold it eight years ago. ANC will again be owned and run by the Cifarelli family. ANC was co-founded by Jerry Cifarelli in 1997, and he sold to LEARFIELD …
LED Mainstreamed: Restaurant At Ski Resort Puts Wraparound LED At 10,000 Feet January 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes The argument that LED display tech has been mainstreamed is pretty strong when you come across images of a pretty big, 90-degree corner screen on a restaurant atop a ski hill in Kazakhstan. This is a 6mm screen, running anamorphic illusion creative, at the Shymbulak resort, the biggest ski hill complex in central Asia. It …
ISE Sixteen:Nine Mixer Sponsor Profiles: SignageOS January 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is fully back after COVID-era disruptions, and Sixteen:Nine is doing a Barcelona version of the networking mixer it has been doing annually at DSE in Las Vegas for the past decade or so. The event (sold out, sorry!) happens because of eight great sponsors who help cover the considerable costs. I like …
EV Charger MediaCo Volta Acquired By Fossil Fuel Giant Shell. No, Really … January 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes The largest DOOH media company marketing EV charging stations as a medium just did a deal to be acquired – somewhat surprisingly by a fossil fuels-based energy supplier. Volta has done a “definitive merger agreement” that would see Shell USA Inc., a subsidiary of the big multinational company, acquire Volta in an all-cash transaction valued …
Melitron Broadens Product Line To Now Include A “Street Series” Of Outdoor Screens January 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes Custom display manufacturer Melitron has broadened its product line-up beyond the drive-thru menu displays that have been the Canadian company’s core product to now also include a “Street Series” aimed at use-cases like DOOH ad posters and directories/wayfinders. It’s an interesting step, as many of its custom display competitors have been getting into drive-thru displays …
