LOTS of interesting stuff in the new IHS Markit Digital Signage & Professional Displays Market Analysis, this one for Q2 2017. Here’s the top-line stuff in the executive summary: For the first quarter of 2017 (Q1 2017), public display monitor shipments increased 2.6%, with shipments reaching over 804,000 units. […]
It’s no surprise to anyone that retail patterns and behaviours are changing, resulting in winners and losers in the battle for the retail £ as it swings between the “online” and traditional “bricks and mortar” retailers. The battle is fierce, but the traditional retailers still command over 80% of the spend. […]
Sales lift stories tend to be hard to come by from retailers and brands using digital signage, often because they’re not overly motivated to tell competitors what’s working. But here’s a short case study out of New Zealand about screens in the forecourts and inside New Zealand BP gas stations and c-stores. […]
When I ask digital signage solutions providers about the verticals they chase, most will mention retail, but few say that’s where they are highly-focused. Good thing, given that the scale of retail is not tipping the right way. A Business Insider story notes Credit Suisse research work that suggests retailers are closing stores in the U.S. […]
Display nerds at last week’s annual Society for Information Display’s annual DisplayWeek, this year in LA, saw among other things e-paper technology that was both color AND video capable. Tech developed by Silicon Valley start-up CLEARink, based on R&D that came out of the University of British Columbia, was among the Best In Show winners at the event. […]
The latest Digital Signage & Professional Displays Market Analysis from IHS Markit – which the company makes available to Digital Signage Federation members – has a bunch of interesting nuggets of information. […]
There’s nothing all that new about digital signage networks using video analytics to get some sense of what’s happening with audiences near screens, but AdMobilize is not just another company peddling the same old stuff. […]
May 1, 2017 My Turn A burst of new research proves the power of OOH to deliver value in a media landscape tilted to digital (desktop and mobile). In 2016, mobile overtook desktop spending, and for the first time, digital (mobile, desktop, social) as a whole has passed TV ad spend. […]
A lot of companies have come in and out of video analytics for digital signage, but the one constant has been Quividi – a French company with an anonymous pattern detection product a lot of people will tell you is the gold standard for this tech. […]
Piccadilly Circus has a long & rich history as an iconic landmark for London and the UK. So when Ocean and Land Securities’ announced exciting plans for the new Piccadilly Lights, creating a unique and prestigious new platform for brands to reach global consumers in the UK’s capital, it represented far more than just an upgrade of an OOH advertising location. […]
The Swedish research firm Berg Insight has put out a summary of a new report looking at the size of the connected digital signage display market globally, predicting it will grow at a compounded annual rate of 16.7% through 2021. […]
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 …. […]
Finding a seamless link between digital signage/interactive displays and smartphones has so far been something of a bridge too far – the problems being a need for certain technologies to be included or installed on the phone. A new system from the Future Interfaces Group research lab at Carnegie Mellon University takes a run at the challenge, with interesting results. […]
Guest Post: Jørn Olsen, Pronto TV I used to have an old wooden boat that I would spend a lot of time maintaining and polishing every autumn, to be ready for the next summer. Jørn Olsen Every year, my “boat-neighbors” swapped their boats to something a little bigger than last season. […]
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. […]
