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16:9: What The Rapid Adoption Rate For 4K UHD Means For Digital Signage

The marketplace, at least in the US and by extension Canada, is going 4K UHD at a rate far quicker than the advent years ago of HDTV. The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) has announced holiday season shipments of 4K UHD televisions in the United States are expected to reach 4.5 million units, bringing the total for the year up to 10 million units. That’s up 40% over 2015. […]

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Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 2:18 PM

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Density Debuts New Way To Count, Report And Display Crowds And Lines

There’s a podcast episode up today about Density, a San Francisco start-up that has launched a new type of people-counting sensor I think has some interesting potential for the digital signage market. Density was launched by Apple alums and former founders of Y Combinator. […]

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Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 6:42 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage Display Market Growing At 8.3% Annual Clip: IHS

The research firm IHS has pushed out new data suggesting the global market for digital signage and professional displays is now  growing at a compound annual growth rate of 8.3 percent, with 4.4 million units moved last year and 7.7 million expected to move by 2020. […]

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Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 7:52 PM

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Digital Convergence, Interactivity And Personalization Key To Digital Signage’s Future

Guest Post: Cornelia Henkel, Advanced Digital Solutions Cornelia Henkel The ongoing digital convergence of digital signage, IT, consumer electronics, telecommunications and the media industry will pose major challenges on system integration issues, but also promise to augment viewer experiences to a completely new stage. […]

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Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 10:16 AM

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How Much Time Do Digital Signage Displays Really Have With Viewers?

Let’s face it – digital signage. with some exceptions, is a glance medium. What’s scheduled to screens has seconds to get noticed, absorbed or ignored. […]

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Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 4:18 PM

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Research Group Suggests Digital Signage To Create 70,000 New Jobs In Korea

The Korea Economic Research Institute, a state-run research organization, says the digital signage market will create around 70,000 jobs by the year 2020. I assume these jobs will be in South Korea (not globally), and I’ve no idea how the group got to that big number. The KERI report also suggests the digital signage business will generate $8.7 billion worth of production. […]

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Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 9:19 AM

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Adoption Rates Of Digital Signage in Corporate Office Spaces On Rise

Guest Post: Ben Davis, Futuresource Consulting We’ve been looking closely at the adoption rates of digital signage solutions in corporate environments, and based on feedback from some 500 organizations across Western Europe and the US, there’s some clear growth happening in corporate office spaces and meeting rooms. […]

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Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 7:31 AM

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16:9: Fine Pixel Pitch LED Sales Grew 366% In 2015: IHS Research

The arrival on the market of fine pixel pitch LED displays has sparked a big jump in shipments globally, but the competitive landscape is so crowded that total revenues have only jumped slightly, according to a new marketplace report by the research firm IHS. Total unit shipments for all pixel-pitch categories in the direct-view LED video market were up 15.6 percent year over year in 2015. […]

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Wed, May 18, 2016 at 8:49 AM

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16:9: Chart: LCD’s Future Is Big, As In Big Screens, Says IHS

The latest IHS Digital Signage & Professional Displays Market Analysis – this one tied to Q1 2016 – says the slowdown in the economies of China, Latin America, and Eastern Europe actually shrunk the digital signage and professional display market by 3%, year on year, in 2015. But the market is coming around and is expected to grow by 2.9% in 2016, at 12.2 million. […]

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Mon, May 2, 2016 at 5:02 PM

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Check Out These Cool Data Visualizations From Mike Pell

Mike Pell of Microsoft was one of the speakers last fall at the DSrupted conference. I was really happy he agreed to speak because he had a lot to say about visualized data needing to be insightful first, and then, possibly, pretty. He’s released a set of visualizations he calls “Datascrapers” that has been inspired by New York City’s skyscrapers. […]

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Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 10:51 AM

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Your Customer Engagement Screens Are Probably Bullshit

One of the things that has bothered me for years about digital signage product marketing is the heavy, almost maniacal use of terms like engagement, experience and immersive by some companies. […]

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Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:15 PM

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DSE 2016 Booth Field Guide: Seemetrix

Seemetrix,  Booth FT10 in the Innovator Zone Here’s what Irina Magdenko, product manager at 3divi, has to say about the Russian company’s first appearance at DSE, showing its product Seemetrix. […]

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Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 1:23 PM

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16:9: How Data Has Become Retail’s New Battleground

GUEST POST: Todd Lewis, Spatial DNA Informatics Bricks-and-mortar locations are undergoing a revolution similar to e-commerce in the mid-2000s, with personalized shopping experiences linking the online and real-world experience Todd Lewis Retailers are struggling with brand loyalty at the same time they are trying to come to terms with the massive troves of data available to them. […]

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Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 1:23 PM

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US Senator Raises Consumer Privacy Concerns After Clear Channel’s Radar Comes On Screen

A prominent US Senator – Al Franken of Minnesota (Democrat) –  is going after outdoor giant Clear Channel Outdoor and another giant – AT&T – over news this week that the companies are leading a group teaming up to aggregate anonymous smartphone data to generate location and demographic analytics and hyper-target advertising on conventional and digital OOH ad signs. […]

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Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:42 PM

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Big Outdoor Media Starts Applying Smartphone Analytics For Ad Targeting

Clear Channel Outdoor Americas has launched a new service called Clear Channel Outdoor RADAR that uses location-data from smartphones – mashed up with demographic data to more accurately target and measure the impact of conventional and digital Out-Of-Home media campaigns. […]

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Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 10:07 AM

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