Creative Realities Fending Off Takeover Bids From Key Private Equity Investor May 23, 2023 by Super User The digital signage solutions provider Creative Realities is in the midst of a takeover bid from a main investor, with a board committee rejecting at least a couple of share buyout proposals – the most recent of those coming late last week. The company’s suitor is Pegasus Capital Advisors, which owns the entity – Slipstream Communications …
Mvix Launches AI Toolset That Filters Content Scheduled For Screens May 23, 2023 by Super User There has been a lot of discussion in recent months about how artificial intelligence tools could be used to rapidly, and at little cost, generate visual content for screens, but now a digital signage CMS provider is marketing an AI toolset that filters and moderates visuals before they get to screens. The DC-area software firm …
How Is Business Going In Q2? Let Us Know Via This Quick Digital Signage Industry Survey … May 22, 2023 by Super User The Q2 Digital Signage Business Climate Index (DBCI) survey is now online, and companies active in the ecosystems are being asked to take a few minutes and provide their take on the state of the business right now. The DBCI is produced by Sixteen:Nine’s content partners in Germany, the consulting-events-publishing firm invidis. Sixteen:Nine is helping out …
Sharp NEC Adds New 75-Inch Panel To Line-up; Supports Intel SDM & Raspberry Pi 4 Module May 19, 2023 by Super User With so much focus on emerging and evolving technologies, like various kinds of LED, it’s easy to forget there’s still a big old trade in commercial flat panel displays that were at the core of digital signage for the 2000s and 2010s. But new models continue to be developed and released, like this new 75-inch …
Watch: Miami-Area Resort Lobby Pairs Rainfall Water Feature With Projection-Driven Multimedia Experience May 19, 2023 by Super User Multimedia installations have sometimes supplanted fountains and other water features in office, mall and hotel lobbies because digital is changeable and problems with digital are usually much easier than problems with pumps and filters, but here’s a casino resort lobby that blends sync’d lighting and projection with a giant rain head shower feature. It …
Start-up i5LED Brings On Display Industry Vet Wang To Drive Global Business May 18, 2023 by Super User The US-based LED display start i5LED has formalized the hiring of one of the more hyper-connected people in the industry to help drive business development globally. The Sacramento company has appointed Lynn Wang as Global Head of Business Development, though she and her CEO boss George Pappas have been making the trade show and conference …
Intersection Launches New AI-based Localization, Personal Tools For Its Media Network May 18, 2023 by Super User The OOH media firm Intersection has announced new AI-driven tools – what it calls “integration opportunities” – that allow for localization and personalization on its networks of digital ad and messaging screens. The NYC company says its new Generative AI Integrations are designed to enhance ad effectiveness, “delivering a more nuanced and engaging consumer interaction.” …
Romanian Start-Up Tranzy Pivots From DOOH CMS To Real-Time Transport Information Platform May 17, 2023 by Super User Business news from Romania is not routine reading for me, but I stumbled on an interesting online piece about a software firm in that country that pivoted from offering a digital signage CMS to a full-featured, AI-driven information platform for transit systems and their users. The startup, tranzy.ai, related its story with BR Business Review, …
Carousel Digital Signage Offers Free Social And Emotional Learning Content For U.S. K-12 Schools May 17, 2023 by Super User The Minneapolis-based software firm Carousel Digital Signage has launched a new content program that’s free to US school districts and is designed to foster safe spaces, by boosting social and emotional learning in K-12 environments. The PR doesn’t spell it right out, but the initiative and need has a lot to do with campus safety, …
DSE Opens Nomination Submissions For 2023 DIZZIE Awards May 17, 2023 by Super User Nominations are now open for the 2023 Digital Signage Experience Awards, also known as the DIZZIE awards, which will be handed out during DSE in Las Vegas in early December. The awards recognize and celebrate digital signage installations and campaigns. Three new categories are being introduced this year: The Sustainable Solution Award recognizes innovative and environmentally conscious …
