Via QSR Magazine If you can cast your mind waaaay back, all the way to 2019, you may recall how restaurants with drive-thru restaurants were seen as unnecessary evils, full of idling vehicles adding to greenhouse gases. […]
These are rough times, but it may be encouraging to read that there is indeed some investor money out there for companies in the digital signage ecosystem. The Prague start-up signageOS has announced a $2 million cash injection from a Czech venture capital firm, to grow the company’s self-described Digital Signage Unification Platform. […]
Chris Riegel has started talking about his plans for the big abandoned factory he bought in Oregon back in March. […]
The global pandemic will suck at least $20 billion out of global pro AV industry revenue expectations this year, according to AVIXA’s 2020 AV Industry Outlook and Trends Analysis (IOTA). Revenues reached a peak of $259 billion in 2019, but will dip by $20 billion to $239 billion in 2020. […]
The on-premise media solutions company Mood Media has started a process that would lead to it filing for bankruptcy and reorganization by the end of the month. The company, based in Austin, TX, says it will continue to operate while all this happens. […]
That joint venture deal combining NEC Display Solutions with Sharp Corporation is off for at least two months, and it might be mid-fall before the not very inventively named Sharp NEC Display Solutions is a going concern. NEC and Sharp have mutually agreed to delay the launch date, citing the business disruption brought on by COVID-19. The deal was supposed to conclude and take effect next week. […]
The operating challenges presented by the novel coronavirus have prompted a bunch of companies to start marketing solutions that are framed around using technology to get businesses back open and running safely. It started with a handful of solutions by smaller companies, but now the big guys – like Samsung – are getting involved. […]
A teaser video is up for the great discussion recorded online last week by the new umbrella organization ACE (Advocates of Connected Experiences). It involved the heads or key members of several different associations that all touch on and deal with similar issues and challenges around experience and privacy. […]
The Canadian OOH media company PATTISON Outdoor Advertising has released new location traffic data that would confirm the sense most people would have if and when they head out for vital supplies like groceries, potato chips and booze – traffic has been halved. […]
It’s unfair to be automatically dismissive of claims by Chinese companies that they have obtained patents on products, but entirely reasonable to be suspicious – given the history of copycat and counterfeit products that come by the container-load out of the country. […]
There has been a proliferation of hybrid/hand sanitizer kiosks coming on the market in the last few weeks, most of them looking almost exactly the same. Six months ago, these things were interesting but almost novelty products – something a media company might use, or a retailer looking to attract some shoppers to a screen, where promos are running. […]
It is as difficult to keep up with digital out of home buying platforms as it is tracking digital signage CMS software companies, so I don’t feel all that bad about knowing absolutely nothing about the UK startup Bidooh. […]
AVIXA’s latest weekly Impact Survey on the pro AV industry in the midst of the pandemic and recession suggests the levels of pessimism have bottomed out. The top takeaways from the past week: Overall, survey respondents feel the same this week as they did the week before. New, limited data indicates some companies have seen work returning. […]
This is research out of Australia, but given we’re almost all under similar restrictions, the data about changed routines is relevant to most locales. The research, involving some 250,000 residents Down Under, suggests fitness and entertainment venues have taken the biggest hit in this pandemic. It also provides big indicators of what else people are either not doing, or doing far less. […]
The digital signage industry has been seeing companies that do things like video conferencing and screen-sharing adding digital signage modules, like Zoom and Airtame, but here’s the opposite case – with a CMS software company adding workplace meeting capabilities. […]
