Guest Post: Tim Strähle, Adversign Media This is part 2 of a three-part series about retail detail signage and the Internet of Things. It’s based on excerpts from a broader white paper by the digital signage CMS firm Adversign Media, which markets Viewneo. It is available here. […]
In this Sixteen:Nine podcast episode, I had a chat with Jason Cremins, the founder and CEO of the UK-based firm Signagelive. His company has been one of the very early adopters of emerging technologies that have really changed how digital signage is pulled together and run – from cloud hosting and distribution, to HTML5, to system on chip displays. […]
The speaker line-up now seems to be in place for the Digital Signage Summit at InfoComm, being run by the German consultancy and event group Invidis Consulting. The summit is on Tuesday, June 7th, from 8 AM (groan) to 3:30 PM, I think/assume/better find out that it is at the Las Vegas Convention Centre. I better find out because I am among the people speaking at the thing. […]
Guest Post: Debbie Dewitt, Visix The workplace of the 21st century is a different animal than what some of us grew up with. With the dominant generations working being Generation Xers and Millennials, expectations and ideas of what makes a place worth working for are different than they were. Businesses are changing what they offer and how they do things to accommodate these new mentalities. […]
Guest Post: Tim Strähle, Adversign Media This is part 1 of a three-part series about retail detail signage and the Internet of Things. It’s based on excerpts from a broader white paper by the digital signage CMS firm Adversign Media, which markets Viewneo. It is available here. […]
If one of your key verticals for digital signage hardware, software or services is retail, you already know the sales cycle is long and that it can be very hard to get prospective customers to take that last step and cut purchase orders. You’ll also have a sense many bricks and mortar retailers are struggling. […]
If you are flipping through posts while sitting on the couch with kids nearby, skip past this one. The links are a little unsuitable for little kids. There’s nothing new about digital billboards and digital signs getting hacked, but what is amazing is how at least the first incident made it so easy for just about anyone to do it. […]
Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix A good Human Resources team is indispensable to the smooth running of a company or organization. Companies today are investing more in their HR departments1. They are often the interface between management and staff, and can make the difference in having an engaged workforce that knows what’s expected and wants to be there. […]
The Sixteen:Nine Podcast series just launched a week ago but it’s already doing quite well – with more than 300 downloads off the host pages and more than 1,000 if you lump in other podcast platforms that grab, distribute and play episodes out using the RSS feed. Now … compared to something like Serial or The Message, the numbers are pathetic. […]
Photo: Scene from the film Man On A Ledge, which is not about Digital OOH local ad networks. At least I don’t think so. It seems like every week lately I spend some time on the phone talking a guy off a business ledge. […]
American friends who’ve come up to Toronto for a visit or on business have tended to marvel at the sight of big buildings along major roadways that say simply: BEER STORE. […]
Photo: Vladimir Kudinov Guest Post: Brandon Harp, Barco/X20 Media The digital workplace has many different meanings, and as someone selling visual and software solutions into that space, I constantly find myself asking customers what the digital workplace means to them. Very few have clearly defined answers. […]
Stephen Randall is the EVP Social and Mobile at the out of home media firm Monster Media. Randall was doing mobile operating systems before they were ever called smart, as a co-founder of Symbian. He then started LocaModa, which was doing visualizations of user-generated content as far back as 2005, before social media was even a thing. […]
It’s one location, so keep that top of mind, but word that cutting over menu boards at a UK burger stand from static to digital menu boards jumped sales by 50% is nonetheless interesting. […]
Guest Post: Irfan Khan, Skykit Picture this: You’re the proprietor of a grocery store, and you’ve just installed your first digital signage system. You’ve been careful to do everything right. You did extensive research into what type of display would be right for your business, taking into account everything from cost to viewing angles. […]
