Renaud Lafrance On How Stingray Business Drives Retail Experiences March 24, 2021 by Super User The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Montreal’s Stingray has built up a global business providing curated music channels for consumers on their cable systems and through streaming, and also for retail through in-store radio systems. But the company also has a fast-growing Business division that’s focused both on shopper experiences, using digital display, …
Outfront Media Adopts Broadsign As DOOH Ad Management Platform March 23, 2021 by Super User I can’t think of another CMS software company that has managed to build up something akin to dominance in a vertical market the way Broadsign has with ad-based Digital OOH Networks. The one exception would perhaps be STRATACACHE, but in a very different vertical – major QSR chains. Montreal-based Broadsign works with many of the …
Huge Tech Distribution Firms Tech Data, SYNNEX Merge In $7B Deal March 22, 2021 by Super User SYNNEX and Tech Data have announced a definitive agreement to merge companies, creating a monster company in the technology distribution space. The M&A deal is expected to close in Q3-Q4 and until then, the two will operate as separate companies in a “business as usual” mode. The transaction is valued at approximately $7.2 billion, including net …
Does Retail Really Need Roaming Robots With Screens That Try To Sell More Candy Bars? March 22, 2021 by Super User Robotics can be absolutely amazing in terms of applications – just consider the Mars rover and the companion helicopter expected to soon start test flights on the Red Planet. Back here on Earth, there are countless great applications for robotics, but then there other ones – some cooked up by marketing and merchandising people – …
Using Low-Rez LEDs And Fabric To Create Interesting Ambient Visual Experiences March 22, 2021 by Super User Most of the marketing and much of the design execution for LED has been focused, rightly, on increasingly fine pixel pitch displays and tight resolutions, but there’s an interested diversion some designers are taking with addressable LED lights. Banks and commercial property developers may regard a big DV LED video wall as a rounding error …
NYC Property Firm Equips Reception Area With Transparent OLED Showcase March 19, 2021 by Super User This is an interesting use for transparent OLED displays – the reception area for a commercial property company based in New York. There are three see-through OLEDs tiled together, fronting some sort of display case with, I think, engineered structural lumber and maybe some building models. The content includes beauty shots of properties as well …
C-Store Chain Kwik Trip Finishes 1,000+ Screen Rollout Across US Midwest March 19, 2021 by Super User The commercial display company PPDS, aka Philips, has announced the completion of a smart digital signage rollout to some 700 Kwik Trip convenience stores across the U.S. midwest. The c-store chain started a modernization program in 2018 and now has more than 1,000 screens in place – all of them Philips D-Line displays with embedded …
Giant Fine Pitch LED Video Walls Finding New Use Case As Virtual Movie Sets March 18, 2021 by Super User It has really been just three or four years since direct view LED started being demo’d and marketed as a screen alternative to projection for cinemas, and now we’re starting to see tangible examples of LED being used to make blockbuster movies and streaming series. Fine pitch LED has matured to a point that production …
Public Information Display Market Sagged By Almost 10% In COVID-19 Era: Research March 18, 2021 by Super User COVID-19 was bad for just about every industry, so it is no surprise that the digital signage display business had a rough 2020. New numbers from the research firm Omdia suggests overall 2020 public information display shipments were down 9.8% year-on-year. But, a little surprisingly, Latin America, Japan, and the China region actually saw some …
Feeding The Content Beast With “Machine-Generated Creative” March 17, 2021 by Super User Feeding the content beast – steadily dealing with the insatiable appetite of a digital signage network – has been an issue for as long as the industry has been around, and one that’s still not really solved. Data integration capabilities, scripting and presentation tools like HTML5 have made it possible to automate some messaging, which …
