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16:9: Beware of fake digital signage market reports

I come across these every day and I actually read some of them. They look like garbage [Ed.] You will no doubt come across, in some lazy trade publication, a copy and paste version of this press release Digital Signage Market Size likely to grow at 5.2% CAGR from 2016 to 2023. It says the industry’s market size is going to be $23 billion and blah-blah-blah …. […]

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Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:11 AM

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16:9: DOmedia Partnership Blends DOOH Buy-Sell Platform With STRATA’s Ad Management Toolset

Columbus, OH-based DOmedia has worked what appears to be a well-positioned partnership with a major media buying and selling platform, integrating its planning and buying tools into STRATA, a software toolset used by some 1,200 ad agencies. Under the deal, DOmedia will blend its planning and buying tools with Chicago-based STRATA’s order management and billing platform. […]

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Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 6:27 PM

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16:9: If Your (Digital Signage Software) Pitch Is All About Simple, Easy And Affordable, You’re Dead

If your company is in the digital signage software business, and your big pitch through this trade show season and beyond is all built around what you have being simple and easy to use, you’re a dead company walking. Scores of companies say their content management system is some variation on simple, easy, friendly and affordable. Those are great attributes. […]

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Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:51 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Sean Keathley, Adrenaline

This week, we’re talking experience design with Sean Keathley, the president of Adrenaline, an Atlanta-based company that’s in the business of coming up with the strategy, the content and technologies to make spaces like banks, stores and hospitals really work. […]

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Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 12:02 AM

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Rail Ad Campaign Uses Real-Time Data To Target Traffic-Jammed UK Motorists

Via Campaign Live Here’s a good, relatively simple example of using live data to trigger relevant digital content on digital displays – in this case, cheeky messages to motorists stuck in traffic. […]

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Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 3:20 PM

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Signagelive To Debut Content Marketplace At ISE

UK-based CMS developer Signagelive is launching a digital signage content marketplace next week at Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam. That marketplace, aimed at subscribers to the SaaS platform, will have some 500 pre-built digital signage content elements, ranging from layout backgrounds, pre-built applications to functionality widgets. […]

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Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 7:53 AM

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Pharma Uses 13 Big LED Elements For Trade Show Booth

We’ve come a long way from the days when it was nice to see or hear about companies in other fields using a screen or two in their trade show booths to help tell the brand and product story. Here we have a major pharma making digital the centerpiece of its presence at a show, with 13 different large scale LED elements. […]

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Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 12:47 PM

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16:9: 456 digital signage exhibitors at ISE 2017 in Amsterdam next week

Integrated Systems Europe starts next week in Amsterdam, with the trades show hall letting in the crowds starting Tuesday. It’s the biggest pro AV show in the world, and digital signage is just one component. But a big one. […]

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Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 10:09 AM

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Steelcase Labs New Privacy Film Makes Digital Signs Look Like Black Rectangles

Via Wired Technology that would block the light emitted by LCD screens and LED displays would seem about the last thing a digital signage deployment might want, but a new privacy film developed by the office furniture firm Steelcase might actually have some interesting use cases in this sector. […]

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Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 9:13 AM

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Armodilo Debuts Low-Profile, Low-Cost Tablet Enclosure Called Keyo

The guys at Armodilo have built up a name and healthy business developing pretty but also rugged enclosures for tablets being used as one-to-one digital signs across a bunch of verticals, and now they’ve come up with a new line that is more about function and cost than form. […]

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Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 2:49 PM

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PixelFLEX Adds Bendy Hi-Rez LED Panels

Nashville-based PixelFLEX has started marketing a new flexible LED video panel that would appear to go after the turf occupied by NanoLumens and some offshore clone-makers they’d like to sue. PixelFLEX has debuted a 1.9mm TrueFLEX LED flexible video panel – a high-rez panel that can handle, at least, a gentle concave or convex curved surface. […]

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Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:03 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage Summit Set For ISE

The German consulting and event company invidis has put together another one of its digital signage conferences tied to a trade show – in this case a Digital Signage Summit running on Feb. 8th at Integrated Systems Europe in Amsterdam. […]

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Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 3:10 PM

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16:9: New NYC Subway Line Upgrades Interactive Kiosks

The Link NYC smart cities screens that have started dotting the sidewalks of Manhattan now have cousins in the subway system – new variations on the MTA On the Go (OTG) kiosks that have been in the system for some time now. There are eight screens in three stations on the loooooooong-awaited new line, which opened at the start of the month. […]

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Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:29 AM

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16:9: Sharp Hints At Move Into “Smart” Displays

It looks like Sharp will join the swelling ranks of big display manufacturers selling professional monitors with System on Chip players built inside. […]

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Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:39 AM

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Projects: Interactive Displays Guide Vera Wang Style Choices

This a pretty standard touchscreen application developed for weddings-centric fashion designer Vera Wang, but I like how this video shows the thinking behind the user experience and the use of a set of guiding questions on style to get users more quickly to what interests them. […]

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Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:06 AM

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