CRI’s Pandemic-Era Financials Likely A Window Into How Many Ecosystem Firms Fared In 2020 March 10, 2021 by Super User I used to track a now long-gone CMS software company called Wireless Ronin because of the company’s impressive record of burning through investor money, but I gradually got away from that when the company was acquired by Creative Realities and came under adult supervision. The quick story on Ronin is the company built up a …
How And Why Universal Symbols Improve Emergency Notice Visuals March 10, 2021 by Super User The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Suppose something bad happens – like a tsunami or a gas leak – and the alert messaging comes up on TVs and digital signage screens in English text. That’s great, except if much of the viewing audience consists of first-generation immigrants who barely speak or read English. …
Massive Experiential DV LED Video Walls Focal Point Of New Project In Central London March 9, 2021 by Super User A new development going up now in central London, in the immediate vicinity of the Tottenham Court Road tube station, includes a building with a public atrium lined inside by four-storey tall 8K DV LED video walls. The Outernet London development is a feature of new build and redeveloped properties intended to make the area …
PRN Launches Airport DOOH Network, Looking To Fill Void Created by CNN Airport Shutdown March 8, 2021 by Super User The shopper engagement firm PRN is making a move to fill the vacuum left in U.S. airport departure lounges created by CNN winding down its airport TV business. PRN, which got its start in media almost 30 years ago, putting TVs in Walmarts and other big box retail venues, is launching the Ascend Media Network, …
DV LED Demand Recovering, But Almost 70% Of Trade In Chinese Market: Research March 8, 2021 by Super User The market research firm OMDIA says the Direct View LED video display market is coming back as the COVID-19 pandemic slows, but the recovery is somewhat limited to China. Recovery began in the third quarter and accelerated further in the 4th quarter, says OMDIA in a brief. “In Q4 2020, 336,257 square meters were shipped, …
Carousel Extends Digital Signage Reach To Clients’ WFH Screens March 5, 2021 by Super User In the past year I have read several PR pieces detailing how a digital signage CMS platform has been tweaked and expanded to enable desktop communications to all the Work From Homers, but seemingly all of them have said what’s possible, not what’s happening. Here’s a working example, from Minneapolis-based Carousel Digital Signage, which is …
ZetaDisplay Continues To Expand, Cracking Germany Via Nordland Systems Acquisition March 5, 2021 by Super User The Swedish digital signage solutions provider ZetaDisplay is continuing its strategy of growing, at least in part, through acquisitions, announcing a deal to acquire the German systems integrator NORDLAND systems GmbH. The deal took effect yesterday, and represents the listed company’s first move into the German market. Zeta started out by acquiring companies in Scandinavia, …
Barcelona Start-Up Nsign.TV Releases New Version Of Omnichannel CMS March 5, 2021 by Super User The Spanish start-up nsign.tv has announced a series of updates to what it calls its omnichannel communication platform. A Barcelona-based spin-off of Netipbox Technologies, accelerated by the incubator Lanzadera, nsign.tv says its platform is already being used by more than 150 companies in 25+ countries., including Ikea, Areas, Nespresso, Coca Cola, Haribo, Unilever, Revlon, P&G, Domino’s …
PPDS Helps Turn Suite At Dutch Football Grounds Into Flexible Meeting Space March 5, 2021 by Super User This is only nominally digital signage, but kind of interesting, nonetheless. PPDS – the company that sells Philips professional TV and digital signage products and solutions – has worked with Atlona and Panduit on a networked display solution for the corporate suites at the stadium that is home to the big Dutch football club PSV …
Surviving The Pandemic March 5, 2021 by sixteenninewpadmin GUEST POST: GEOFFREY BESSIN, INTUIFACE Inspired by our own efforts to weather a challenging pandemic-induced business climate, we – at Intuiface – decided to host a “Leadership Summit” in early February. More than 200 women and men from around the world – representing the executive suite for agencies and integrators large and small – gathered …
