ISE Breaks Attendance And Exhibitor Records Again, Though Just February 14, 2019 by Super User Integrated Systems Europe has released the final numbers on last week’s trade show in Amsterdam, and it once again exceeded previous numbers, though just barely this time. ISE has seen some dizzyingly rapid growth in recent years, with big jumps in attendance and other key indicators year on year. For 2019, 81,268 people turned up. …
Dear DisplayCos: Get Your Set-Up Act Together! February 14, 2019 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler An Open Letter to Digital Signage Display Manufacturers: This morning, I looked at myself in the mirror while shaving, and saw a ton of new white hair. Tons of it, sticking up from my head. So I thought I would take this depressing opportunity to bitch a little more about …
DSE 2019 Booth Previews: Adomni Showcasing Audience-Based DOOH Targeting February 13, 2019 by Super User Adomni DSE Booth # 2634 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? To see the latest digital out of home technology, including audience based targeting. To learn about the new Adomni Ad Marketplace for BrightSign. To view an ad-enabled 65” display Electric Vehicle Charging kiosk, …
16:9 DSE Mixer Registration Now Open – Act Fast Or Miss Out February 13, 2019 by Super User The venue is booked, artwork in progress, ticketing page up and sponsors lined up for the 10th – yeah, the 10th – 16:9 DSE Mixer on March 26th in Las Vegas. Each year, if this is new to you, I host a cocktail party for about 400 industry friends. It has become the unofficial kick-off …
Visix, RDM Add New Compact Digital Signage Media Players To Line-Ups February 13, 2019 by Super User Compact media players is still a thing in digital signage, though it could be argued they got small enough a decade ago, and going even smaller is not all that critical. A couple of well-established companies that are not doing the smart display/system on chip player thing have made recent announcements about their new teeny …
Leyard’s R&D Head Sam Phenix Dishes On LED, OLED, VR And Everything Display February 13, 2019 by Super User I managed to squeeze in a few podcast interviews in and around ISE last week, and this is the first – a long-planned and finally realized talk with Sam Phenix, who is the VP of research and development for Planar and Leyard. That puts her in the middle of everything happening in the display market …
It’s Digital Signage Expo Booth Preview Season – Free Marketing Love Ahead Of The Show February 12, 2019 by Super User With Integrated Systems Europe out of the way, industry eyes are turning now to Digital Signage Expo, which is in late March in Las Vegas. Every year, 16:9 provides a free service available to exhibitors to preview their booth plans. I don’t charge for this, and ask only that the exhibitors complete a web form …
Why Can’t Digital Signage Hardware Protocols Make Sense? February 12, 2019 by Mitch Leathers Guest Post: Luis Villafane, Maler It’s been a while since Ive written anything for 16:9. I guess the muse did not come to me until just now. I’ve been keeping a low profile because I’ve just been very busy. I did not go to ISE this year. I wanted to go, I really did, but …
LED Head In ISE Booth Will Have Seemed Familiar To Ohio Convention-Goers February 11, 2019 by Super User I’ll never know how I could be all through Hall 8 last week at ISE, and didn’t see this directly – but I didn’t. I heard about it, though – a giant LED head that one might politely say was “inspired” by a strikingly similar one done at the Columbus, Ohio convention center. It was …
UK Smart City Digital Posters Popular With Drug Dealers February 11, 2019 by Super User An industry friend turned me on to what has becoming an ongoing issue with the “smart city” kiosks being installed in big cities around the UK. Turns out the digital information stations are really popular with drug dealers. The big LinkUK digital slabs – that are either the same or very close to the same …
