The Digital Signage Ecosystem Has At Least 1,200 Companies, New Directory Suggests April 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes I have gone down the path two or three times of trying to build up a database of all of the companies in the digital signage ecosystem, starting with grand plans but then getting distracted and leaving the things dormant. So I was pleased and impressed to read of a directory with some 1,200 validated …
Big Interactive POS In Grocery Aisle Takes Place Of Merchandised Items, Because Goods Are Locked Up Elsewhere April 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes I was surprised, when stumbling across a retail trade publication story about in-store screens, that a touchscreen-embedded point of sale print piece was taking up such a big chunk of prime merchandising space on a grocery shelf … until I read on and learned it was all about reducing theft on high-value goods. The British …
Punitive US Tariffs On China-Origin Electronics Off For 90 Days … Or Are They??? April 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes It LOOKS like – ALL CAPS on LOOKS because as we’ve seen this is a moving target and the guy behind all this is fond of ALL CAPS – the digital signage and pro AV industries have been given a huge break as word broke that crippling US tariffs on Chinese imports to that market …
Tik Tok Video: Small Town Businesses Use Road Signs To Playfully Taunt Each Other April 11, 2025 by Dave Haynes Some Friday fun to take your mind off all the nuttiness for a minute or two … This is a bit dated but great – a playful sign war in a small Missouri town that had various businesses needling each other or just adding some color. The first signs were analog but operators with outdoor …
Research: OLED Display Sales Have Surged (Pre-Tariffs), But MiniLED-Lit LCD Sales Even Hotter April 11, 2025 by Dave Haynes Setting aside tariffs (somehow), here’s a look at the state of OLED TV shipments pre-tariffs chaos from the research firm Omdia – which suggests consumers are increasingly big on the skinny and vivid flat panels. The company’s latest monthly TV shipment tracking data shows 19.2% year-on-year growth in global OLED shipments, as of February 2025. …
Tariffs Analysis: Higher Prices, Lower Sales Volumes And Lots Of Uncertainty April 11, 2025 by Dave Haynes Very arguably, about the only certainty right now with the supply chain and costs for the electronics that are fundamental to digital signage deployments is that there is no certainty. While displays, PCs and other gear are coming from all over the place, a lot of the components originate in China – which as I …
New Eyefactive White Paper Digs Into Hows And Whys Of In-Retail Analytics Tech April 10, 2025 by Dave Haynes The German interactive systems firm Eyefactive has pushed out a free white paper that digs into the hows and whys of using in-store analytics to drive retail performance. The paper – Revolutionizing Retail: How In-Store Analytics are Closing the Gap with E-Commerce – suggests there are five key benefits: Improved Customer Satisfaction – Research shows …
Apple, McDonald’s Still Biggest OOH Ad Spenders IN US; DOOH More Than Third Of All Buys : OAAA April 10, 2025 by Dave Haynes The big spenders in out of home advertising in the United States continue to also be some of the biggest global brands, according to a new Megabrands report from the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA). The 2024 MegaBrands and 2024 OOH Advertising Facts & Figures reports show Apple, McDonald’s, Amazon, Coca-Cola, and Verizon still …
NowSignage Powering Retail Media Network Across UK-based Superdrug Chain April 10, 2025 by Dave Haynes UK-based CMS provider NowSignage and its partners have the green light now to talk about how an aggregated solution including software will help drive some 500 screens in a retail media network to be rolled out across Superdrug stores up and down that collection of countries. CEO Nick Johnson and I chatted at ISE about …
Some 300 Stores In QSR Chain See Menu Displays Hacked By Pro-Palestine Activists April 10, 2025 by Dave Haynes Hacks of digital screens happens here and there, but a recent one involving a Canadian QSR chain was particularly bad because it appears to have been network-wide, affecting the menu board displays at the order counter AND outdoor screens in the drive-thru. So not just one or two stores because someone used PASSWORD as the …
