If you have been around the industry for a while and Digital Signage Expo was part of your travels, you may remember 4-5 years ago a Brooklyn studio called Breakfast showing its flip-disc displays off on one side of the exhibit hall floor. […]
The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Switzerland’s Navori is among the most enduring and respected firms on the software side of the digital signage industry – widely used globally and known for being an early adopter of emerging technologies. […]
The Swiss CMS software firm Navori has taken the interesting step of developing its own AI-driven audience measurement software, pairing it with the company’s long-established digital signage CMS software. Called Aquaji, an computer vision-based marketing analytics software is aimed at the retail and QSR sectors, and for digital out-of-home advertising networks. […]
Miami audience measurement start-up AdMobilize has been acquired by the technology holding company Rokk3r. The investors, also based in Miami, say buying AdMobilize and its sister company MATRIX Labs represents an opportunity to get into technologies that have exponential growth trajectories. […]
One of the minor but persistent concerns about using the smart digital signage displays now marketed by most LCD manufacturers is that the embedded computing devices didn’t have the power to meet the demands of some projects. […]
The VC-funded DOOH media start-up Firefly is looking to generate some buzz by putting its taxi-top ad displays on a new fleet of Tesla 3 electric vehicles that have been approved for use in New York City. The EVs are run by a taxi concession licensee called Drive Sally. The company says it is the only taxi operator using EVs. […]
My start in digital signage and digital OOH came in elevators, 22 years ago, and I still have this weird habit of walking into office tower elevator cabs and looking at where a screen might go. So I am always curious to see how the medium and technology have evolved over two decades. […]
The computer vision firm AdMobilize has done a partnership with USSI Global that will see the AV/IT systems integrator positioned to deploy audience analytics systems for digital signage networks and other use cases. The two teams, says PR, have worked together to optimize the implementation of AI in digital signage projects for Retail, C-Store and more brick and mortar locations. […]
The legendary German pro football club FC Bayern Munich opened a new flagship store in central Munich, with a signature interactive feature an AR-driven display that allows fans to take virtual selfies with their favorite players. […]
The Swiss computer vision firm Advertima has announced what appears to be a serious push into AI-driven solutions for digital signage, with a focus on retail. The company has hired an ex-Navori guy to run global sales and and former Toshiba guy as senior sales director. They’s also added a seasoned AI guy for the board of directors. […]
French interactive software firm Intuiface and the Dutch computer vision firm Sightcorp have announced a partnership that integrates technologies and results in a bundled toolkit designed to simplify things like shopper analytics and real-time content triggering to screens. […]
Researchers at Google have started showing off demos of an AI system that mines and converts a web page into a short video, known as URL2Video. The system uses AI to extract the visuals and design styles – including fonts, colours, and layouts – and generate a decent-looking, albeit simplistic, video spot from it. […]
A bit of a shitstorm has spun up here in Canada over “news” Thursday that a major shopping center chain had been using computer vision in its malls to get a handle on shopper demographics, somehow threatening privacy in the process. […]
Dayton, Ohio-based digital signage solutions company STRATACACHE has bagged and closed a massive deal that sees it providing software, hardware and services to three of the larger QSR chains in North America, The deal involves more than 40,000 screens at Burger King, Tim Hortons and Popeyes locations in Canada and the U.S. […]
The Atlanta-based venue analytics software firm InReality sees an opportunity for mashing up technologies to create Safe Spaces, and has developed solutions and advisory website that explains the hows and whys of doing that. […]
