Startup Neuranet Uses HTML5 To Build Multiple Ads Fast, And At Once March 7, 2014 by Dave Haynes One of the start-ups I spent time with at this week’s DX3 conference in Toronto was Neuranet, which has developed an online ad production tool called Flexitive. Based on HTML5 and other technologies that have really just bubbled up in the last two-three years, the SaaS-based service allows creatives (and minimally creative marketers) to build …
Wireless Ronin Drops Another $3.6M, Total Deficit Near $100M March 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes On the heels of the announcement earlier in the day of the merger between Wireless Ronin and Broadcast International, RNIN released its Q4 and Fiscal 2013 Financial Results. And the numbers are not, as has been the way quarter after quarter, pretty. Revenue was down in a big way in the last quarter and up …
New Tech: How In-Store WiFi Can Drive Shopper Insights March 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes I spent the last couple of days wandering the aisles of a digital tech trade show in Toronto called DX3 Canada. From the context of digital signage, I couldn’t make any sound argument that buyers of that tech needed to be there. Despite what the pic suggests, it was BUSY (think this was taken pre …
Three Content Options, Two Free, For St. Patrick’s Day Greetings March 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes St. Paddy’s Day is less than two weeks out and if your network or business has a lot of Celtic people – or just a lot of people who seize that day for serious partying – you might want to get a greeting on the screen. Here are three options for you (there may be …
Projects: Oscars Red Carpet Stretches All The Way To US Malls March 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes Screenfeed has long been known for curating and very nicely presenting news, data, images and video in automated feeds for digital signage networks, but it added an interesting new wrinkle the other night when it live-streamed video from the Academy Awards red carpet last Sunday. The live stream took over large digital screens placed in several …
Struggling Digital Signage Tech Firms Wireless Ronin, Broadcast Int’l Merge March 6, 2014 by Dave Haynes I’d imagine the general sense of how consolidation will play out in the software side of the digital signage sector is that healthy, growing companies will acquire distressed or dying companies. Probably not as anticipated are stories of two companies likely struggling to keep the lights on joining “forces” in a merger. But the second …
The Android Digital Signage Invasion Continues March 6, 2014 by Tom Graczkowski Guest Post: Bryan Mongeau, BroadSign I saw a lot of people and handled a lot of questions about Android at last month’s Digital Signage Expo, and one of the most persistent ones was whether we were selling many Android boxes and licenses. Yes, BroadSign has been selling a lot of Android devices. In the year …
Research: Digital Signage Tuned To Boomers, And Their Parents March 4, 2014 by Dave Haynes A new report from market research giant Nielsen should be a good reminder to brand marketers that one of their biggest, and in many cases most affluent audiences, needs some help getting and absorbing messages. While it’s funny to hear stories about grandmothers in their 80s struggling with Skype cameras and the UIs of smartphones, …
Projects: Pizza Hut’s Tabletop Ordering Concept March 3, 2014 by Dave Haynes Here’s a concept tabletop ordering system being touted by Pizza Hut as the possible future of dining in your local mega-chain pizzeria. It has about as much chance of being commonplace in the chain as food critics describing the stuff coming out of the ovens in glowing terms. I like the concept and the execution …
Raspberry Pi Turns 2, 2.5M+ Units Now Shipped March 2, 2014 by Dave Haynes The Raspberry Pi people marked two years of having the teeny $35 Linux computers on the market with news that more than 2.5 million units have shipped worldwide. The project was first intended as a means to get schoolkids tinkering with affordable computing gear, but everyone from hobbyists to engineering companies have also invested in the …
