It’s Now Clear Big Digital Displays Are Fundamental To How Las Vegas Creates Wow Factor June 6, 2022 by Dave Haynes In late and up early in Las Vegas, as I poke around and get myself sorted for being at InfoComm this week. The first thing I learned in coming here is that after 28 months of not doing it, I don’t miss the process/rigmarole of commercial air travel. At all. The second thing I have …
PPDS, Signagelive Both Bring On Senior Sales People For U.S. Market June 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes I am breaking my policy a bit here by posting about new hires, with a note about well-known industry veterans being brought on to a pair of companies. Analytics tell me few readers are interested in these appointments – apart from the employers and new employees. But once in a while there is news that’s …
Transparent OLEDs Tiled To Create Dynamic Window In Korean Retail Bakery June 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes LG has been floating a variety of possible use-cases for its transparent OLED displays – with dynamic messaging on things like subway car windows and sliding glass entry doors to stores. Now it is touting how a retail bakery in South Korea has tiled a set of the see-through displays to create a window looking …
Video Walls As Patchwork Content Quilts Are A Bad Idea … June 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes I haven’t a clue what’s going on with the LCD video wall in this Buffalo Wild Wings franchise in Portland, Maine, and neither does one of the guys who founded the fast casual restaurant chain. Scott Lowery, who let’s assume cashed out because his Linkedin profile describes him as a ubiquitous snow skier, popped into …
DSS Europe Summit To Focus On How Digital Signage Is Now Business-Critical June 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes Just as industry trade shows are getting back to normal in a sort of/not really post-pandemic era, conferences are also making a comeback after months or years of cancellations or virtual versions. The annual Digital Signage Summit Europe (DSS Europe) will have its first in-person event in three years next month in Munich. The July …
Delta’s Airy, LED-Filled New Terminal C At NYC’s LaGuardia Finally Opens Saturday June 2, 2022 by Dave Haynes The big investment in money and years to make New York’s LaGuardia Airport into a facility appropriate for one of the world’s great cities is reaching a conclusion after six years of construction, with word this week that the $4 billion Terminal C will open for travellers on Saturday. The new consolidated Delta terminal – …
Commercial Audio Firm AtlasIED Expands Into Digital Signage For Airport Mass Communications June 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes A commercial audio company that says it has 85% percent market penetration in U.S. airports has expanded into digital signage messaging, using custom display totems that can interrupt scheduled messaging with emergency alerts and guidance. Called LookHear, the display and platform tap into Atlas IED’s GLOBALCOM enterprise-wide communications system. The new set-up is a partnership …
Three Years After Acquisition, Broadsign Rebrands Campsite Ad Exchange As Broadsign Ads June 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes A little more than three years after acquiring the programmatic ad exchange Campsite, Digital OOH-focused software company Broadsign has rebranded the service as Broadsign Ads. Started in Montreal, like Broadsign, Campsite was a programmatic digital out of home (pDOOH) demand side platform. Focused at first on the domestic market, Campsite also has reach now into …
Bluefin Adds Windows 10 All-In-One Screens Via New Seneca Partnership June 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes The all-in-one display company Bluefin has added Windows 10 IoT to its options for its smaller-format, retail-centric range of merchandising and marketing displays, through a new partnership with the custom PC firm Seneca. The units range in size from 13-32 inches, use an Intel Celeron processor and have touchscreen overlays. Bluefin got into digital signage …
Optisigns Adds Support For Apple TVs As Digital Signage Players June 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Houston, TX CMS software firm OptiSigns is the latest digital signage services provider to add Apple TVs to the list of hardware player options. The SaaS company’s play-out software was already compatible with Windows, Android, Linux, Raspberry Pi, BrightSign, Roku, and “LG Commercial” – which I assume means webOS smart displays. OptiSigns also supports …
