DSE 2017 Sees 20% Spike In Overall Attendance From Recent Years April 14, 2017 by Super User Digital Signage Expo saw a nice bump in foot traffic at this year’s edition of the annual trades show – with more than 4,900 attendees. That was up from about 4,100 in 2016 – a number that had kinda flatlined in recent years. The show stresses in its press release the number of end-users was roughly …
Gas Station TV Picks Up Verifone’s Fuel Pump Screens In Joint Venture April 12, 2017 by Super User Detroit-based Gas Station TV (GSTV) has done a deal that sees it take over the assets and operations of Verifone’s Pump Media division, in a 50:50 joint venture led by private equity guys. The combined business will operate under the GSTV brand and deliver 3.3 billion annual impressions through more than 18,000 locations in all 50 …
InfoComm China: An LCD Video Wall With Kinda Sorta No Visible Seams April 12, 2017 by Super User Probably the most interesting thing I saw in a quick walk around several halls at InfoComm China in Beijing on Wednesday was a Shanghai company called Pallas, which has tech that does a really good job of making the seams in LCD video walls visually go away. It uses something called active bezel tech – …
Taking Advertising In-House? Part 2 April 12, 2017 by Emily Carroll Guest Post: Brett Farley, NanoLumens Part 2: The Considerations of That In-House Network Selling the Media There are a number of different ways to sell your media network to advertisers and a clear strategy allowing for all the variances to drive toward your end game of maximizing your sales revenue need to be considered. Some …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Ke-Quang Nguyen-Phuc, Quividi April 12, 2017 by Super User A lot of companies have come in and out of video analytics for digital signage, but the one constant has been Quividi – a French company with an anonymous pattern detection product a lot of people will tell you is the gold standard for this tech. I sat with CEO Ke-Quang Nguyen-Phuc during a break …
Taking Advertising In-House? Think Long And Hard First! April 11, 2017 by Emily Carroll Guest Post: Brett Farley, NanoLumens Part 1: Think About It First … We’ve seen a trend where I work with large real estate ownership and management groups are either initiating their own advertising sales teams and networks, or having outsourced that function unsuccessfully, reclaiming ownership of that function and taking it back “in house.” These companies …
Projects: National Sept. 11 Museum Upgrades Digital Signage With BrightSign’s 4K Tech April 10, 2017 by Super User The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan recently overhauled its digital signage infrastructure, adding in a stack of BrightSign players. The little purple boxes now power about a third of the museum’s digital signage set-up, feeding informational and interactive content to roughy 30 displays located throughout all seven floors of the subterranean museum. Hal …
Quiet Posting Week Ahead April 9, 2017 by Super User I have some posts already scheduled to run, but this will likely be a quiet week for posting. I’m on the other side the planet for InfoComm China – a speaking gig – and not totally sure how much time I will have, or how easy or hard it will be, to post content. I …
How To Impress Your Audience With An Interactive Video Wall April 7, 2017 by Super User Guest Post: Tim Griffin, Userful Video walls are everywhere and companies are looking for creative ways to use them. Gone are the days of slapping together a grid of a few displays and playing content around them. Customers are looking for artistic layouts, interactive content, dynamic content switching, immersive experiences, and more. All too often, …
Uber Open Sources Its Data Visualization Framework April 7, 2017 by Super User Via TechCrunch If your company is looking into data visualization, and has developers eager to have a run at it, here’s a pretty sophisticated open source development framework that Uber – yeah, that Uber – has made available. The data visualization framework used internally by the ride-share company to do things like visualize customer experiences was made …
