The next big industry-ish trade shows are CES in Las Vegas and NRF in NYC, but I am definitely skipping CES (mostly consumer tech and a too damn many people, everywhere) and I am too busy to sneak down for the retail show. So my head is now getting into Integrated Systems Europe, which is in just a few weeks in Amsterdam. […]
This is a nice pair of 20 by 8 foot fine pitch LED screens that have been lit up in the lobby of 55 Water Street, in the Wall Street district of Lower Manhattan. The total resolution on the screens is 6,400 by 1,260 pixels, which I assume means each of them is 3,200 by 1,260 pixels. I know, amazing math skills. […]
I’m working with a UK company on formal awards – and at some point I might actually have time to review the entries (there are numerous judges) – but I have my own thoughts on what impressed me in the past year. […]
The gig economy has been around the Pro AV and digital signage install business for ages, but a Toronto startup has launched with the idea that it can get organized much like ride-sharing and other services. […]
Here’s this year’s loopy holiday video from the folks up at Montreal’s Telecine, a digital signage solutions provider. […]
Rob Gorrie is among the most digitally-savvy and sharp people I know – some of that based on the DNA of a family that’s been doing marketing for more than a century. But it’s also based on a pile of real world experience starting and running digital companies. […]
GUEST POST: Luis Villafane, MALER I have been running digital signage hardware since 2001, and over all that time I’ve only found a handful of devices I’d call “The Chosen Ones” – gear I was comfortable putting in production environments. […]
When I think of pop-up stores, I think apparel start-ups. But in Toronto, Ontario’s giant booze monopoly is running a pop-up store for the holiday season that includes several digital components. […]
GUEST POST: SEAN MATTHEWS, VISIX English doesn’t have a word for it, so we appropriated the German term zeitgeist, which translates as “spirit of the times.” Today, there is certainly something afoot – we can all sense there’s been a shift in the way we think as a culture, and there is much talk about the Millennials who are entering the workforce, and how they perceive things. […]
Chicago’s 150 Media Stream is a 127-foot long and 19-foot high permanent installation in the lobby of the new 150 North Riverside office building. It is comprised of 89 individual vertical LED displays or ‘blades’ creating a canvas of over 3,000 square feet. […]
Montreal-based CMS software company Broadsign has revealed a refreshed brand today, as well as tweaks that clean up the names for core products. The logo looks a bit different in terms of color and font selection, and the capital S in BroadSign is gone, so it is now Broadsign. Fine by me. […]
STRATACACHE and its subsidiary PRN have acquired iDKLIC, a Belgian digital marketing and signage provider that does ad-based in-pharmacy digital health and wellness networks. The company has about 1,250 sites right now but STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel says the plan is more than 10X of that – 15,000 sites – by the end of 2019. […]
Nick Prigioniero, the longtime head of a company that started as EK3 and became Cineplex Digital Media through acquisition, is stepping down in April. […]
The Danish company that has shown small pyramid-shaped hologram-like displays at recent Digital Signage Expos will be showing a much larger take on mixed reality at the upcoming CES show in Las Vegas. Realfiction will he unveiling DeepFrame, a large glass window that uses the reflection of an OLED display’s image to create an overlay on what people are looking at. […]
The Digital Signage Federation (aka DSF) has announced who won seats on the 2018 board of directors, as well as who’s on the executive for next year. […]
