Video: Montreal Deployment Firm Shows Its Hang & Bang Skills April 18, 2014 by Super User It’s rare enough to see video case studies on projects involving software and solutions providers, but even more rare to see a nice, polished video from a company that does the “hang and bang” side of digital signage. This is an effective video developed by a Montreal company, Cablage Expert, that is focused on digital signage …
Microsoft Files Counterfeiting Lawsuit Against Digital Signage Player Firm April 16, 2014 by Super User A Los Angeles-area company that sells digital signage media players has a bit of a problem on its hands after software giant Microsoft filed a lawsuit this week, alleging Technovare Systems was selling PCs that had bootlegged versions of Windows running on them. The case filed this week in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, …
Video: Duggal Uses Animation To Drive Digital Signage Offer April 15, 2014 by Super User Here’s a nice example of an animated explanatory marketing video for Duggal, a big US printing/visual solutions company that has in the past couple of years added digital signage capabilities. This sort of thing, when well-executed, can do a nice job of laying out what you do and how you’re different. I know the Duggal …
Projects: Giant NASDAQ Dubai Stock Ticker April 15, 2014 by Super User Elevision has done all of its media inside office tower elevators in Dubai, but now the Digital OOH firm has added a giant 96-metre wide LED ticker board outside one of the emirate’s iconic buildings, the Dubai International Financial Centre. The screen is the largest in the Middle East and will be used to report …
Hughes Reminds Sector About Its Own Digital Signage Solution April 15, 2014 by Super User There are some big companies out there that every so often pop up and remind me that they are in the digital signage business, at least a little. Hughes Network Systems, known mostly as a broadband satellite solutions provider, made some noise this morning about its HughesON Digital Media Solutions – which does the usual …
Projects: Real-Time Property Listings On UK High Streets April 14, 2014 by Super User The UK wing of the global property firm Savills is putting real-time residential real estate listings in the windows of its high street locations. The screens show a selection of highlighted property listings, using Signagelive as the content management system and extracting data from Reapit, the estate agent CRM software used by Savills. Says a news …
Digital Signage Creative Vet Dorsey Seeking Public Office April 14, 2014 by Super User Stephen Dorsey has been around the digital signage space for a bunch of years – running the marketing and creative team at PlayNetwork in Seattle as far back as 2000, and is currently running the strategy, creativity and production firm Dorsey Studios in Toronto. Now he’s taking a crack at a very different pursuit – politics. …
Why Finding A Niche Is Key For Many Digital Signage Vendors April 14, 2014 by Super User I’ve been doing some speaking lately, talking about where the digital signage sector is at and where it is going. One of my key messages is that the current count of software and solutions providers is even less sustainable these days because the supply-demand thing is getting even more out of whack. While we’re regularly …
Digital OOH Sees 13% Growth In 2013: DPAA Report April 14, 2014 by Super User Digital OOH advertising grew at a 13% clip in 2013, says the Digital Place Based Advertising Association in a new report. The DPAA says only online ad spend is growing faster, and revenue growth for ads on public-facing digital screens far exceeded that of the overall U.S. ad industry, even TV and out-of-home. According to Miller, …
Web Services Emerging To Help Push Real Time Content To Signs April 11, 2014 by Super User The technical stuff here is way the heck over my head, but a startup just coming out of private beta would at least seem to have a service that would intrigue digital signage software companies that use browsers as players and use, or want to use, a lot of live data. TechCrunch has a post …
