Broadsign has done a tie-up with the programmatic ad exchange company Place Exchange the companies say enables digital buyers to “transact DOOH programmatically as a simple add-on to existing digital media buys. […]
Much of the focus in this industry is on the hardware and software used to put digital signage networks together, and increasingly, mercifully, on content and creative. Not that much attention gets paid to the service side of the business – installing screens and fixing devices when things go wrong. Even less attention is paid to keeping the hardware clean. […]
Montreal’s Broadsign has secured its first toehold into the Chinese digital out of home media market, winning a deal to be the CMS software platform for Oriental Sunrise Media Group. The deal is just a few licenses, for now, but one of the active screens run by the company is also one of Asia’s largest digital displays – measuring 3,788 square metres. […]
Telecine has been doing digital signage content and technology solutions for corporate clients forever – operating out of one of the 1,000s of beautiful old stone buildings that litter the older stretches of Montreal. […]
I get an email from Google each morning that is a summary of the news headlines it scrapes on the search term “digital signage” and I’d say 95% of what it finds is useless. It does not return stuff from Sixteen:Nine because this deemed “just a blog” and carries opinions. […]
I’m kinda breaking my own podcast rule here by interviewing someone for a second time, but Burr Smith has been a busy guy lately – buying companies and fighting patent trolls. I spoke with the CEO and owner of BroadSign a couple of years ago, but it was more than time for an update chat given recent events. […]
Guest Post: Derek DeWitt, Visix Derek DeWitt Back in December, Senior Business Consultant for Microsoft and co-founder of Techincon, Rashan Dixon, wrote an article for Entrepreneur listing five business trends he thought would continue to rise in 2019. Coming up on the midpoint of the year, we can see that his predictions were pretty spot on. […]
A San Francisco start-up called Firefly that puts digital OOH media screens on the tops of rideshare cars has announced a $30 million series A funding round, which is on top of a $21 million round late last year. Firefly offers a supplemental revenue stream to rideshare drivers in return for affixing a hyper-local, geo-fenced digital sign on the cartop. […]
The company behind the Google Chrome OS-centric digital signage solution Skykit has announced a $6.5 million funding round intended to drive what it calls an aggressive growth plan. Minneapolis-based Agosto Holdings, which describes itself as a cloud services and development company, secured funds from Bridge Bank and SG Credit Partners. […]
Overall out of home (OOH) advertising revenue in the U.S. went up 6% in Q1 2019 compared to the previous year, accounting for $1.78 billion in spending, based on new numbers released by the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA). […]
Screen grab – CNN BIG tornadoes – one possibly an EF-4 or even 5 – tore past Dayton, Ohio last night – making for a long night for STRATACACHE CEO and his ops team. […]
Big pro AV news out of Spain and the UK earlier today, with the TRISON Group announcing its acquisition of Beaver Group, which has done many of the better QSR and retail digital signage jobs in the UK in recent years. TRISON is Europe’s biggest digital signage-focused integrator – kinda like Diversified, but in Galician Spain instead of New Jersey. […]
Broadsign owner and CEO Burr Smith is seemingly the man of the moment in the digital OOH business. He made some waves by acquiring crosstown rival Ayuda Media Systems in late April, and he’ll no doubt stir things up again with news his company has acquired the digital OOH ad exchange Campsite, which like Broadsign and Ayuda is based in Montreal. […]
Montreal-based out of home media company NewAd has been acquired by Bell Media, the Canadian telecoms and media conglomerate. NewAd built its business putting out of home posters in bars and restaurants, competing across Canada with another Montreal company, Zoom. […]
The largest digital signage-focused integrator out there – New Jersey-based Diversified – just added what will undoubtedly be its most far-flung office, in Australia. […]
