Electric Objects Poised To Launch Digital Art Display Service May 13, 2014 by Dave Haynes Electric Objects got some tech-blog love recently from TechCrunch, which wrote about the NYC start-up has raised $1.7 million to launch a service that I’d describe as a first-cousin of digital signage. The company is developing a service that allows people to hang digital art posters in their living or work spaces and subscribe to …
Two Proof Of Display Products Hit Digital Signage Market On Same Day May 13, 2014 by Dave Haynes In an odd little twist, a pair of companies are making noise week in London about new products that monitor the state of digital signage networks using tech that watches the output of screens. Beatpixels is launching UpState at an NEC Showcase event while Taggalo was formally launching and pitching its own proof of display …
Mvix Releases MenuBoard-Focused Android Digital Signage Solution May 12, 2014 by Dave Haynes Mvix is the latest digital signage software and hardware company to develop an Android-based product, with plans to show off its menu-board focused system at the upcoming National Restaurant Association show in Chicago. Called Mvix Andros, it’s a $99 player box that runs a quad-core ARM processor and uses Android as the operating system. Mvix …
DSrupted Update: More Speakers Teed Up May 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes Planning is coming along nicely for the DSrupted conference on Sept. 17th in Toronto. I’ve been more focused on completing the speaker line-up, and not paying much attention to marketing just yet. Several companies have approached me – both from inside and outside the industry – offering to speak. But I have just five slots and …
The Market Did NOT Like RMG’s Numbers May 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes Well, I liked what I saw Yesterday of RMG Networks new Executive Briefing Center but the market definitely did not like the latest financials released today by the software/media company. The NASDAQ-listed company closed trading today at 97 cents, down a mind-wobbling 70.61% from the previous day’s close. Normally, the company trades about 11,00 shares day …
Adobe’s New Voice App Lets Marketers Build Animated Videos For Free May 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes Adobe has released a new iPad app that lets marketers easily build narrated product and promotion videos off their tablet, for free. Called Adobe Voice, the software enables anyone with even a smidge of marketing and design sensibilities to put together animated videos that are driven by the narrated voice. Users pair up their recorded …
NYC Puts Payphone Call Out For (Ideally) Insane MediaCo May 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes New York City has issued a new RFP, looking for (probably) a media company interested in retrofitting its 1,000s of old public payphones as free WiFi hotspots. There are more than 7,000 public pay telephone installations across the five boroughs, and the pitch to potential respondents is that they can bankroll the deployment by running …
RMG Networks Posts $8.3M Operating Loss For Quarter May 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes RMG Networks posted its quarterly financials today, a rough set of numbers the company is attributing to weaker ad revenues and higher operating costs pinned to adding to and changing sales and marketing efforts. The company reported an adjusted operating loss for the last quarter of $8.3 million, compared to a pro forma operating loss of $2.6 …
First Look: RMG Networks’ New Executive Briefing Center May 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes Executive Briefing Centers and Customer Experience Centers – both essentially showrooms on steroids – are not terribly new to a lot of technology sectors, but they’re quite new to the digital signage space. Probably because … 1. Few companies could afford to build them. 2. The competition wasn’t. That’s started to change as the industry …
This Network Brought To You By Cheetos May 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes A Phoenix mobile tech and marketing company has done a letter of intent to buy an existing digital signage network, with the goal of cornering the ad market in places that legally sell marijuana. SinglePoint, Inc. plans to buy Drive Media Network , for cash and stock, with the initial plan to install Drive Media screens in medical and …
