Ikea Opens Screen-Filled City Store On London’s Busiest High Street May 2, 2025 by Dave Haynes While London’s Oxford Street seems mostly to cater to tourists, based on all the candy and cheap souvenir shops, the UK capital’s busiest retail high street continues to add more reasons for digital signage nerds to visit. There is Outernet London at one end, by the Tottenham Court Road Underground station. There is the Flannels …
Dynamic Content Without Coding: Digichief Launches Mercury Platform May 1, 2025 by Dave Haynes Lexington, KY-based Digichief has broadened its digital signage content solutions portfolio with what it calls the Digichief Mercury Content Platform, an in-house tool that uses flexible browser technologies like HTML5 to allow solutions providers and end-users to highly customize their automated on-screen content. This intuitive platform, says Digichief, allows users to choose from a library …
UK Digital Out Of Home Ad Spend Was Up 10.2% In 2024: Research May 1, 2025 by Dave Haynes Readers have regularly seen OOH advertising market status updates from the US-based Out of home Advertising Association of America, but its been more rare to share data from other markets – like the UK. So I was happy to stumble on reporting from latest Advertising Association/WARC Expenditure Report out of the UK, which shows the overall …
Using MagicINFO Server? A Vulnerability With Maximum Severity Discovered (And Patched) May 1, 2025 by Dave Haynes I only reluctantly wade into cybersecurity stuff, because much of it is way the hell over my empty head. But this seems like something important to at least relay to network operators and integrators who use Samsung’s mostly legacy MagicINFO CMS software. As you likely know, Samsung has made MagicINFO available for many years, but …
Tod Puetz Shares How Insane Impact Got Some 500 LED Display Trailers On Market, And How Firm Stayed Ahead Of Electronics Tariffs April 30, 2025 by Dave Haynes If you go to big outdoor sports events, concerts in parks or even political rallies, there’s a reasonable chance that what’s happening is going to be relayed on a portable LED display that was wheeled into place by trailer. My local footy team uses one and it is old and looks terrible. But that’s …
Korbyt Joins Growing List Of CMS Solutions Supporting Amazon’s $100 Signage Stick April 30, 2025 by Dave Haynes Amazon has signed on another CMS software firm that has developed support for the $100 Amazon Signage HDMI stick, with Dallas, TX-based Korbyt bringing the total to 22 companies. While some of the early adopters were small companies that might raise questions like “Sorry, who???”, the online retailing giant has also signed up some pretty …
Tariffs Mean No End Of Uncertainty These Days For LED Display Companies April 29, 2025 by Dave Haynes I’ve spoken to or corresponded with numerous display manufacturers in recent days to get a sense of how they are trying to navigate the pinballing tariffs situation, and the words that best describe their viewpoints are perplexed, nervous and hopeful – the latter related to a sense that this will all calm down, maybe even …
UK’s Sky Pairs High-End TV In Shop Window With Transparent LED To Amplify Key Reasons To Buy April 29, 2025 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting window marketing project that is touting a high-end TV by accentuating its on-screen highlights, sync’ing and reinforcing them 0n a much larger near-transparent LED that fills much of the shop window. The effort supports the Sky Glass TV from the UK-based broadcaster and communications company also known as Sky. The UK wing …
InfoComm America Latina More Than Two-Thirds Booked For Exhibitors For Initial Edition In Mexico City April 28, 2025 by Dave Haynes The trade association AVIXA is having some modest success building up the exhibitor count for what will be the first InfoComm América Latina, set for Oct. 22-24 in Mexico City. The show, which is owned and run by AVIXA, has confirmed bookings for roughly 70% of its planned exhibitor space. However, that amounts to 36 …
This Big LED Billboard Goes Where Its Needed – Towed By Chopper April 28, 2025 by Dave Haynes Hat top Nick Coston, who had this on his Substack page … This hits me as slightly nuts, but a new digital OOH media play is using a helicopter to lift and tow around, by wire, a big, rigid two-sided LED display that is readily visible to people on the ground. This is a little …
