What Does Silicon Valley Bank Failure Mean For Digital Signage Industry? Hard To Say … Yet March 13, 2023 by Super User Weekend e-mails with some industry contacts were all about what was going on with the run on, and then failure of, Silicon Valley Bank and what that might mean for some companies in the digital signage ecosystem. There was already talk of 2023-24 looking like a very rough stretch for companies that are still growing …
Germany’s Cyreen Puts Intelligence In Shopping Carts To Track In-Store Screen And Marketing Impacts March 10, 2023 by Super User Our German language content partners invidis had a post up recently about a Frankfurt start-up called Cyreen, which consumer behavior analytics for retail environments, and is touting the sales impacts of retail media screens. Cyreen’s retail media technology – Connecting Ad-Impressions with a Purchase (CAP) – has the ability to tie in-store messaging impressions down …
Hologram-ish Transparent LCD Used To Virtually Greet, Guide Visitors At Amsterdam Office Complex March 10, 2023 by Super User Here’s an interesting real world application of those shower stall-like, hologram-ish transparent LCD units – making a life-sized and live host available to visitors at a building, even though the host is located in another part of town. The Dutch start-up Holoconnects worked with D&B The Facility Group to set up what’s called a holobox …
Surge Pricing Comes To QSR, Enabled By Digital Menu Displays March 10, 2023 by Super User In the early days of digital signage, management software and screens were promoted as a way for quick service restaurant operators to much more easily and quickly change what was on the menus posted behind order counters – notably removing things like breakfast items that are unavailable the balance of a day. Years on, with …
Pittsburgh’s NHL Arena Owners OK $30M In Upgrades, Include New LED March 9, 2023 by Super User It looks the LED display deal is already locked up, but flat panel display and software firms maybe – repeat maybe – still have a sniff at some of the $30 million just approved for upgrades to PPG Paints Arena, home of the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins. Sports Business Journal reports that the authority that owns …
New Daktronics Financials Suggest Business Viability Issue In Rear-View Mirror March 9, 2023 by Super User LED display manufacturer Daktronics appears to have got past supply chain and cash flow challenges that forced the company late last year to note in SEC filings that its business viability was in question. The SEC filings in December caused shares on the NASDAQ to plummet, and forced the company to delay its earnings release. …
180-Foot Three-Sided LED Marquee About To Officially Go Live On LV Strip March 9, 2023 by Super User When I was last in Las Vegas and fighting my way along the Strip’s sidewalks, one of the many obstacles I had to navigate (along with comic book superheroes and minimally-clad showgirls risking hypothermia) was construction hoarding at the Flamingo intersection, in front of what used to be called Bally’s and across from the Bellagio …
LG Launches Training Academy Aimed At Boosting Awareness, Expertise For Direct View LED March 9, 2023 by Super User One of the reasons many LED manufacturers market fixed-size all-in-one LED displays is that their partner ecosystems include a lot of companies and people who don’t fully have their heads around how these kinds of display projects come together. The challenge with that approach is that bundled solutions can limit what might get pitched and …
JCDecaux’s 2022 Financials Show DOOH Revenue Up A Whopping 41% Globally March 9, 2023 by Super User The biggest out of home media company on the planet had a terrific 2022 – led by DOOH revenue that grew by more than 41%. JCDecaux released its full year 2022 financial results earlier today, showing group revenue grew by almost 21% in 2022, to reach €3,1 Billion ($3.3 Billion USD). Jean-Charles Decaux, Chairman of the Executive …
Slovak Bus Line Kits Out New Terminal With 80+ Passenger Update Screens March 9, 2023 by Super User Several new or updated airport terminals have come online in the past year kitted out with displays that help inform and guide passengers, and it’s the sort of thing that can also serve other mass transport hubs well – like this new bus terminal in Slovakia. The new bus station in the Nivy shopping center …
