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Savannah From Savannah Earns DSF Bursary For Women

Savannah from Savannah has won the first Geri Wolff Scholarship Award handed out by the Digital Signage Federation – an effort to encourage more young women to get into the industry. Savannah McNulty, a third-year graphic design student at the Savannah College Art & Design in Georgia, gets $2,000 from the fund – which was announced in Sept. 2014 and named after Wolff. […]

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Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:44 AM

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16:9: What’s Direct View LED?

One of things that was confusing me a little bit when I walked around some display company booths a couple of weeks ago at Digital Signage Expo was the different names getting applied to indoor LED display walls. I’ve tended to call them fine pixel pitch LED walls, or just indoor LED. […]

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Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 8:18 AM

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Webinar Thursday On Getting Paid Faster On SaaS Deals

The Toronto company that is marketing a way for companies to bring forward revenue from digital signage SaaS deals is doing another webinar this Thursday on how the arrangement works. The pitch from the SaaS Lending Group, which is part of Alliance Financing, is debt financing in the form of a term loan that gets tied to thew recurring revenue stream for a long-term software licensing deal. […]

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Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:50 AM

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16:9: Combo Digital OOH Screen And Vending Machine Start-Up Gets USD 2M Bump In SharkTank

A New York City start-up that combines digital OOH screens and wall-mounted vending machines got a big PR bump and cash infusion the other night by cutting a deal on the US reality TV show Shark Tank. Vengo Labs co-founders Brian Shimmerlik and Steven Bofill wangled a $2 million deal with a pair of the show’s “Shark” investors, Kevin O’Leary and Lori Greiner. […]

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Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 6:54 AM

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Chief Broadens Offer To Include Turnkey Services

The whole turnkey solution thing for digital signage has been around forever – sold by pure-play “solutions providers/integrators” – but also, more recently, by software companies looking to add more margin-based revenues and close deals by saying to clients that they’ll pull all the bits together. […]

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Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 8:54 AM

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Sticking To Software Drives Big Growth Spike For Indoor Mapping Firm Jibestream

Jibestream is a Toronto-based indoor mapping specialist company that has been working around the edges of the digital signage market for the past six or seven years, and some recent strategic shifts have really helped the company get marketplace traction, with triple-digit growth. […]

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Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 2:11 PM

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Hybrid Display Totem Bridges Digital And Print

We all know the world is going digital and things like brochures and pamphlets don’t have a big future – but it’s not a shift that’s going to happen abruptly. Go to a car dealership or bank, or real estate presentation centre, and you are still going to see a lot of printed material being pushed at and happily received by customers. […]

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Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 12:21 AM

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Finland’s Valota Brings Visualized Salesforce Data To Digital Signage

One of my last meetings at DSE a week ago was a post-show Day 2 sit-down over a couple of beers (yay!) with the guys who run Valota, a Finnish software content company that is taking a different approach to subscription content feeds. […]

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Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 3:34 PM

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Adobe Previews Smart Screens And Smart Bags In Concept Store

Adobe’s Marc Eaman demonstrates Smart Bag during Adobe Summit. Photo: Maralise Petersen. Some clients and contacts have been telling me lately that creative production software giant Adobe is starting to get active in the digital signage space – a logical move as the creative they enable – like print and OOH advertising – shifts from analog to digital. […]

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Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 2:28 PM

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16:9: InfoComm16 Gets European Help For Las Vegas Digital Signage Summit

Florian Rotberg speaking at a 2015 European conference The big pro AV trade show InfoComm has for several years had some sort of digital signage educational conference running ahead of the exhibit hall opening, and there will be another one this year – with a European twist. […]

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Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 12:38 PM

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Projects: Etisalat’s Screen-Filled Concept Stores

Here’s a video look at what Dallas-based RMG Networks is driving in the retail wireless stores of the UAE-based telecom Etisalat. The wireless carrier has a range of screens around its larger stores, and is expected to kit out roughly 100 with digital signage by the end of this year. […]

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Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 11:26 AM

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16:9: DSE Recap Webinar Set For Friday AM

The guys from Hughes asked me last week, when I was at DSE and getting a rundown on what they do and offer, if I could do a webinar with them  the following week to re-cap the event. […]

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Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 4:44 PM

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16:9: German Charity’s Social Swipe Allows Direct Donations From Digital OOH Poster

A UK reader kindly pointed me to this terrific charity program that combines a public-facing set of screens, a card reader and trigger-based content to drive donations to a German relief charity. The Social Swipe program allows people in public spaces to swipe a credit card to make a small donation to Miserior. […]

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Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 11:51 AM

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Data Call Adds Health And Wellness Content Feed

Texas-based Data Call Technologies has added a health and wellness content category to its long list of cloud-based content feeds used by digital signage networks. The subscription feeds include Healthy Eating, Wellness Top 10s, Powerhouse Fruits and Vegetables, Healthy Workforce and a Did You Know? list. […]

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Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 9:20 AM

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Projects: The Avenues Mall In Kuwait Adds Multitouch Wayfinding

The Avenues mall in Kuwait is one of the largest shopping centres in the MENA region, with a new addition bringing the leasable area past 370,000 square metres. There are more than 400 stores, including a long list of premium retail brands. […]

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Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 8:57 AM

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