My NY Digital Signage Week Thoughts – Is This Thing Necessary? October 18, 2019 by Super User This will likely get me in all kinds of shit, but … I was in New York this week for the first part of what has been invented, branded and built up as New York Digital Signage Week, moderating a couple of panels and eating and drinking up a storm at various social gatherings. The …
In NYC This Week, And Time-Crunched October 16, 2019 by Super User I am in NYC and on the go to various industry events, hence the lack of posts. I will write about my thoughts on all that once back at HQ, or maybe on the plane tomorrow, when heading from here to San Francisco for a couple of days. Some quick hits for now: The Digital …
IV Dickson On Why SageNet Expanded Its IT Business Into Digital Signage October 16, 2019 by Super User It’s now really common that businesses of all sizes and types who decide to deploy some sort of digital signage network look to a solutions provider who will not only help put it in, but help the client go from the idea stage all the way through to ongoing operations. Effectively, they’re outsourcing the whole …
Vitamin Shoppe’s New Innovation Store Includes Clever Product Look-Up Screen October 11, 2019 by Super User This is the newly-opened innovation store/store of the future for Vitamin Shoppe, which sells guess what. The store in Edgewater, NJ (pretty much across the Hudson from the Harlem district of NYC) has been updated with a new design and layout, but I mention this job because the store does a couple of things with …
Startup Touts Gear And Plan For End-Users To Make Low Rent Direct View LED Displays October 10, 2019 by Super User Heavy traffic, every day, for posts on Raspberry Pi options and free digital signage software tell me there is a substantial constituency out there that does not want to pay market prices for mainstream digital signage technology. I’ve seen it with player hardware (Android sticks and set-top boxes) and play-out software, but I did not …
ZetaDisplay Acquires Dutch CMS Gauddi In Ongoing Digital Signage Consolidation Effort October 10, 2019 by Super User The Swedish firm ZetaDisplay is continuing to build its digital signage solutions company through acquisition, announcing today that it has paid about $5 million USD, in cash, to acquire the Dutch CMS software company Gauddi. Malmo-based Zeta says the deal, effective today, makes it the primary player in the BeNeLux region. Eindhoven-based NDS might argue …
That LED Barge Has Made Its Last Trip On The Rivers Around Manhattan October 9, 2019 by Super User New York City has reached a settlement with the Florida company that upset many residents by operating a floating LED billboard barge on the East and Hudson Rivers. Under the terms of an agreement announced Tuesday, Ballyhoo Media must pay a $100,000 fine if its barge is seen again along the waterways. The settlement came …
Those Madly-Spinning Light Wands Find Logical Homes At Retail End-Caps October 9, 2019 by Super User I’m not much of a fan of those madly-spinning LED light wands that kinda sorta do 3D holographic images, because eye candy tends to have a short shelf life and things that spin eventually fail. But the UK company that is the market leader for the tech may have found a good logical home for …
Matt Schmitt On Why Retail-centric Reflect Got Into Advertising Software October 9, 2019 by Super User Reflect is one of the longest running companies in the digital signage sector – operating out of Dallas since 2001. The company built up its CMS software business largely in retail, but in early 2017 did something of a pivot into ad scheduling and targeting. I wondered, when I first got walked through what’s called …
DataVisual’s Tech Tour Makes Stop Near New World HQ October 8, 2019 by Super User I joke with industry people that my new home city of Halifax is a bit of a black hole when it comes to digital signage activity, having moved here in 2018 from Toronto, which has long been an epicenter of the business. The only directly active company in the vicinity is ScreenScape, and those folks …
