Signagelive Debuts Meeting Room Sign Widget Solution May 15, 2017 by Super User UK-based Signagelive has joined the increasingly lengthy list of companies offer pure-play meeting room sign systems or, in this case and many others, applications that do the job, running off a digital signage CMS. The company’s new Calendar Widgets enables simple connection to Google and Microsoft Office 365 Calendars, and hooks in to a range …
If You Run A Digital Signage Network, Did A Cyber Attack Friday Make You WannaCry? May 15, 2017 by Super User The global ransomware attack that bubbled up late last week has affected a wide variety of system in scores of countries – everything from small businesses to hospital patient management systems – so it was inevitable it was also going to affect some digital signage operators. Digital signage vet Dan Parisien, now with Quividi, speculated …
Projects: Big Data Visualizations Tie Pro Golf Tournament To Charity Effort May 12, 2017 by Super User The data visualization company Framestore Labs is running a real-time data viz set for investment banker Morgan Stanley this week, built around the big Players Championship golf tournament it is sponsoring (on now, through Sunday). Morgan Stanley has an Eagles for Impact Challenge going that will see it donate $5,000 for every eagle made at the event, …
Adobe Taking Serious Steps Into Digital Signage Market With Screens May 12, 2017 by Super User Adobe Systems has a small team refining a digital signage platform called Screens that now loads when users fire up one of the giant software company’s flagship products, Adobe Experience Manager. The product has quietly been on the market for about two years now, and its product managers say the framework and functionality is all …
DSF Plans Toronto Mixer July 26th May 11, 2017 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation is coming back to Toronto for a mixer this summer – the evening of July 26, somewhere in the big city. No more details available at the moment. By late July it might actually be shorts weather. It’s been stupidly cool here for the last 2-3 weeks, as it has in …
Wovenmedia Launches New Video Library Discovery Platform May 11, 2017 by Super User San Francisco-based Wovenmedia has launched a new content discovery platform that sorts and segments the 1,000s of HD and 4K video clips its resells from various TV networks, studios, pro sports leagues and other providers. Dubbed WovenContent, the platform provides subscribers with discovery, sorting, viewing and download options for getting access to rights-cleared clips they …
rVue’s Financial Struggles Force Sale By Month’s End May 11, 2017 by Super User Via Digital Signage Pulse It’s been a few years, really, since rVue has had much of a noticeable presence in the digital OOH space, and it appears those years have been pretty scratchy. The company has announced it has received a notice of default and payment demand from a key backer, and that it will …
CIVIQ’s Gleeson On How Smart City Screens Are Covering Costs May 11, 2017 by Super User Here is the second part of a two-part Q&A session with digital signage veteran Brad Gleeson, now the Chief Commercial Officer at CIVIQ, on that company’s smart cities efforts in New York and beyond. The completed Q&A was provided to 16:9 by a Samsung agency, but they’re the sorts of questions I’d ask. I thought about it, and …
Meanwhile In Nebraska … May 11, 2017 by Super User How not to optimize your available technology … spotted in Nebraska, by reader, at a Burger King.
Skoda Nudges UK Getaways On Digital Bilboards, Using GPS, Real-Time Traffic Data May 10, 2017 by Super User Here’s a simple, relatively easy example of how brands are using real-time data to make their digital OOH advertising more contextually relevant. The Czech Republic automaker Skoda is marketing a new SUV in the UK by updating ads across 10 different out of home networks with journey times from the ad poster location to four …
