Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Chris Lydle, Google October 19, 2016 by Super User This week I am speaking with Chris Lydle, who is the global lead for digital signage and kiosk activity at Google. We had a lengthy, very open chat about the what the technology giant is doing in the relatively small and narrowly defined digital signage market, how its technology fits in, and where things are going. He …
This Digital OOH Network Has Gone From Zero to 1,300 Sites Since April October 18, 2016 by Super User I don’t know how many fledgling out of home media companies – let’s just say MANY – have tried to make a go of putting digital OOH ad screens in bars. Most have failed, learning the hard way that the media ad sales is harder than it looks, and that getting revenues to reliably surpass …
Projects: New DC Bloomberg Offices Greet Visitors With Dynamic Visuals October 18, 2016 by Super User Here’s a nice example of how to present real-time data in a visually interesting way. This is the elevator lobby of financial news giant Bloomberg’s new Washington, DC offices – the entrance flanked by a pair of video walls. The office is a hub for about 250 staff in the US capitol. Montreal’s Telecine, which has …
Inside Secrets For Making Great Digital Signage Content October 18, 2016 by Dina Townsend Guest Post: Linda Hofflander, Skykit I’ve seen some really bad digital signage content in my 15+ years in the digital signage business. I’ve seen signage using long bullet-point lists on default PowerPoint themes. I’ve seen neon yellow text on a royal blue background, so bright it made my eyes hurt. I’ve seen low resolution images …
Webinar: Why World’s Largest Digital Signage Networks Use Linux October 17, 2016 by Super User On Wednesday, noon Eastern, I’m doing the third digital signage webinar in a series with Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux. This one’s on why Linux is the media player OS of choice for a pile of networks and CMS companies, and arguably the most active of those companies is BroadSign, which has about 50,000 …
ScreenFeed Makes FIDS Displays A Subscription App October 17, 2016 by Super User Flight arrivals and departures displays were in the early days of digital signage something akin to a killer app – something that needed no ROI exercise to demonstrate the value, but something that also required specialty software and software/data integration expertise. Companies like Omnivex and PresentationPoint did a lot of trade in FIDS solutions for airports …
Freshwater Digital Packages $125 Monthly For Turnkey Digital Signage Solution October 17, 2016 by Super User The digital signage business seems to inexorably going turnkey – with most vendors I chat with saying that’s the ask and end-users saying that’s how they want to see things play out. On a broad scale, that means integrators and the largest software firms are offering a full range of capabilities in-house or through sponsorships. …
Projects: National WWII Museum Issues Digital Dog Tags October 17, 2016 by Super User I was in New Orleans for a few days last week, and felt lucky to have the time to tour the National World War Two Museum that has become a huge attraction in that city. It has been around for a few years , and recently added some new digital wrinkles I thought were worth sharing. …
Samsung Starts Shipping New P Series Of Tizen-powered Smart Displays October 17, 2016 by Super User Samsung has launched a new P-Series line of smart signage displays that are the first shipping with the Tizen operating system – the OS the company is shifting most or all of its information devices over to. The series has seven models, including 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays with 700 nits, 55-inch, 49-inch and 43-inch displays …
NEC Makes Its Displays Smart Using Raspberry Pi October 17, 2016 by Super User NEC Display Solutions will start marketing and shipping commercial display panels early next year that that have low-cost Raspberry Pi computer modules in them, effectively making them a new variation on smart digital signage displays. This is a notable shift for NEC, which has stayed out of the embedded system on chip display business that Samsung, …
