The trade association AVIXA and the members-based Digital Signage Federation (DSF) have done a partnership that will see it bring expert-level digital signage education content to the global Pro AV group’s trade shows and events. […]
By Gary Kayye. This is a brilliant partnership and a perfect set-up for the future of signage. I have said for more than a decade that AV should own signage and this is a giant step in that direction. […]
The Baltimore City Council is considering a bill to authorize the erection of digital billboards within railroad rights of way. The city says approval of the bill would get rid of Clear Channel Outdoor’s monopoly and bring in more tax revenue. The bill was introduced in July by City Council President Brandon Scott and is supported by Baltimore’s Mayor Jack Young. […]
by Matthew Noll. Programmatic Out of Home is having a moment. Like a big, splashy, “Here I Am!”, debutante, coming of age kind of moment. […]
A Feb. 2022 trial date has now been been set for a set of former founders and key executives of Outcome Health, the Chicago digital out of home media company. Rishi Shah, Shradha Agarwal and two other top execs at the company, which had its start as Context Media, are accused to defrauding investors of several hundred million dollars. The trial is scheduled for Feb. […]
(Free subscription required) Jon Block, recently appointed chief product officer at VIOOH and formerly of ITV. As a software engineer, I worked on the creation of what is now the ITV Hub [which had a big announcement this week]. I then went into product innovation, creating forms of entertainment such as broadcaster smartphone apps. […]
Prague, Czech Republic, Oct. 8, 2020: signageOS expands the unification technology platform to support the W3C open standard, SMIL, for content distribution to any digital signage SoC display or media player. […]
Is such behaviour bordering on suicidal, or is the threat of pandemic a joke? [Ed]. This week our Head of Data, Adam Powell, and Insight Director, Sarah Harding have investigated the behaviours of different audience groups since lockdown was eased to recent curfews and regulations. […]
The UK tech start-up Ultraleap – which markets technology that merges camera-based hand-tracking with haptic feedback – has released free software it says enables existing touchscreens to go touch-free. The qualifier in that is to make the TouchFree software work, operators will need to add on a $250 camera/sensor or a $90 controller gadget. […]
I’ve already had a diverse bunch of companies contribute to the survey I am doing to shape an updated report on direct view LED, but would certainly welcome more. Among the questions asked and answered is the level of awareness and understanding among partners and end-users. […]
This is a video tunnel using open-frame OLED displays, some curved, for a climate change awareness exhibit called The Glacier – part of an exhibition at Klima Arena in Sinsheim, Germany. […]
Data shows that as restrictions lift and the weather warms that audiences are returning to Outdoor spaces and places. The Out of Home (OOH) industry has revealed a decrease of 56 per cent on net media revenue for the third quarter of 2020, posting $95.8 million, down from $218.2 million for the third quarter in 2019. […]
I wrote back in July about Mood Media heading into the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy process, and kinda thought, well that’s the end of that. Wrong. The company went in and out of that process quickly and is now actively saying it is looking to BUY other companies. […]
Russell Abdullah, Head of Strategy and Planning -Display Division at Samsung Electronics America. Samsung is the #6 most recognized brand in the world…The way specifically Samsung got involved with the out of home space…was during the Galaxy S9 launch when they actually started to adopt that ad delivery protocol. […]
The out-of-home industry is hopeful that a post-COVID recovery is underway, despite big falls in net revenue, as the nation slowly returns to outdoor spaces. Industry body Outdoor Media Association (OMA) reported a decrease of 56% on net media revenue for the third quarter of 2020, posting $95.8 million. […]
