Outcome Health Settles Messy Legal Spat; Founders Kicked To Board January 27, 2018 by Super User Chicago digital OOH media company Outcome Health has reached a settlement in a messy dispute with high profile investors, but the deal punts the two founders from their jobs. Founders Rishi Shah and Shradha Agarwal are now Chairman and Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, shifting from CEO and President respectively. A search is …
Cineplex Wins Turnkey Deal To Run QSR Menu Boards For Biggest McDonald’s Franchisee On Planet January 26, 2018 by Super User Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media has done a deal with a company billed as the largest independent McDonald’s franchisee in the world to deploy, maintain and operate digital menu boards at McDonald’s locations way south in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Cineplex (CDM) will work alongside Arcos Dorados to provide ongoing strategic creative content, consulting services …
Get Smart With Automated Digital Signage Applications January 26, 2018 by Kenneth Brinkmann Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix We all want to be smart. The word smart means showing quick intelligence, but can also mean socially elegant and sophisticated. In project management, objectives are sometimes referred to as S.M.A.R.T., which is an acronym for specific (a targeted area for improvement), measurable (a quantifiable indicator of progress), achievable (specific short- and medium-term objectives), relevant (in line with corporate …
16:9 DSE Mixer Ticketing To Launch Mid-Feb., After ISE January 25, 2018 by Super User The emails are starting to drift in, from people asking about the 2018 16:9 DSE Mixer. They go like one of these: Is it on? Where do I register? Did I miss the registration window? Here are the answers: Yes – Tuesday, March 27th, same place as at least last two years There will be …
Panels, Fireside Chat Highlights of Feb. 7 Digital Signage Summit At ISE January 25, 2018 by Super User Munich’s invidis consulting is again putting on a half-day Digital Signage Summit at ISE, with this one running Feb. 7th from 10 to 2 inside the labyrinth of the Amsterdam RAI complex. “As with all DSS events we will be presenting the latest market intelligence and informed opinion. At ISE we will get to grips …
How To Get Your Head Around LED Pixel Pitch January 25, 2018 by Eric Seigler Guest Post: Mitch Leathers, SNA Displays For pedestrians, auto traffic, event-goers and other consumers, nothing turns heads and captures attention quite like digital signage. Dynamic and vivid LED displays prove superior at content delivery and message dissemination compared to traditional advertising tools such as printed posters, billboards and other types of static signage. But to …
Hong Kong Firm Behind Clusterf*ck Kinetic LED Sign In Times Square Touting Job At DSE Stand January 24, 2018 by Super User A couple of industry friends registered for DSE are on email lists for the show that included this one pushed out by Radius Displays, one of the companies behind the highly-ambitious, terribly ill-considered robotic Coca-Cola LED display in Times Square. The launch videos and photos of that kinetic LED sign for Coca-Cola in Times Square …
Stratacache Adopts Auto Plant Practices To Produce New Drive-Thru Displays By 1,000s At Dayton Factory January 24, 2018 by Super User Dayton, Ohio-based STRATACACHE is known primarily in the digital signage industry as an aggressive, fast-moving software and solutions company, and I doubt many industry people think about the company as a hardware manufacturer. But STRATACACHE is now very seriously into manufacturing outdoor-ready displays for the largest U.S. and Canadian QSR chains, using the kind of …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts – How OOHscreen Uses Artwork On Video Walls To Ease Patients’ Minds January 24, 2018 by Super User Hospital and clinic rooms are rarely places people like hanging around, and digital signage has long been seen as a way to distract and entertain patients, and their family or friends. A London-based solutions provider called OOHScreen has a very different take on what digital signage should look like and do in those places. Instead …
Toronto Rail Hub’s ATM Gets Virtual Nature Scene Surround With Fine Pitch LED January 23, 2018 by Super User I’ll be out next week with a report on fine pixel pitch LED, with the key assertion that this tech will grow very, very common in parts of the world other than China and Hong Kong, where it is already everywhere. Here’s a good precursor to what’s coming – a fine pitch surround on an …