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Cineplex Wins Big DQ RFP For US, Canada Digital Menu Boards

Cineplex Digital Media, previously known as EK3, has bagged the deal with American Dairy Queen Corporation to be the fast food giant’s “endorsed provider” of in-store digital merchandising solution, aka menu boards, in the US and Canada. The company says it won the deal “after an extensive audit and request for proposal process with over 30 participants. […]

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Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:44 AM

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New Directory Site For Digital Signage’s Gateway Drug

A new online directory, Meeting Room Signs, has gone live, offering an easy, comprehensive tool for connecting buyers and sellers in the fast-emerging digital meeting room sign and digital door sign business. Meeting room signs are what I call the gateway drug for digital signage. […]

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Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 8:26 AM

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16:9: OOH Research Firm Peoplecount Launches Audience Analytics Platform Built Around Smartphones Looking For WiFi

Toronto research firm Peoplecount, which has focused for many years on out of home and place-based media, has developed its own WiFi-driven location analytics platform, called Placescount. The system passively detects WiFi-enabled smartphones, delivering real-time metrics on dwell time, return trips and footpath analytics. […]

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Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:26 AM

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California Digital Signage CMS Start-Up Launches $250,000 Crowdfunding Campaign

A Pleasant Hill, CA startup called Squizz has started a $250,000 crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to bankroll inventory and new features, and stimulate some sales and PR buzz in the process. The campaign has a variety of levels, from $10 to $10,000 for something akin to a franchise or reseller set-up. […]

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Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:24 AM

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16:9: Monster Settles Social Media Visualization Patent Dispute With TigerLogic

Orlando-based Monster Media has reached a settlement in the patent infringement action it filed in New York courts last summer against Portland,OR-based TigerLogic Corp, over the use of methods that put real time social media posts on digital signs. The terms of the settlement are, as you might expect, confidential. […]

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Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:01 AM

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16:9: Panasonic Adds Built-In Media Players To Displays; Includes Android Support

Panasonic is about to join several other major display manufacturers in marketing commercial display panels with built-in System on Chip media playback capability. Starting in April, AF1 series displays (42, 49 and 55-inch sizes) will have an ARM 1GHz quad-core processor with 1 GB of RAM and 8 GB of internal storage. […]

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Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:55 AM

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Scala Now Really Up And Running On ChromeOS

Scala has formally joined the list of companies developing solutions that run on Google ChromeOS devices, releasing a version of the Scala Enterprise Player that will work on a Chromebox, and in theory at least, on Chromebits and Chromebase all-in-ones. […]

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Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 2:23 PM

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Signagely Rebrands As Metascreen; Adds Free CMS Tier

Austin, Texas-based Signagely has rebranded as Metascreen, and opened up a free-forever tier to its web app-driven digital signage CMS. Founder Nick Kristoffersen says the name change was a simple case of coming to grips with the hard time people were having with pronouncing and spelling Signagely. I don’t think Signagely is all that hard, but I like Metascreen better anyway. […]

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Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 9:54 AM

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16:9: Five HTML5 Options For Building DOOH Creative

For two decades, Adobe Flash was the Holy Grail for designers creating motion graphics for the web and digital signage. Recently, however, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) made HTML5 the new industry standard for digital creative. […]

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Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 9:54 AM

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16:9: My Chromebit Is Truly In Hand

When Asus finally put Chromebits on the marketplace last month, I decided to order one online. No could do. At least not in Canada. […]

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Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:53 AM

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16:9: Can The Crowd Review Digital Signage Software?

A New Mexico company called CrowdReviews.com has announced its online platform for reviews and rankings of software solutions has started ranking digital signage software companies. […]

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Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:38 PM

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Projects: Illinois Church Lights Up Simple, Logical, Nice Digital Signage Network

Here’s a great example of how digital signage projects – no matter how modest – can succeed because the people or person behind it exercised solid thinking and common sense, and coupled that with some creative talent. I saw a Tweet about a church using Rise Vision’s open source content management platform and Raspberry Pi 2s to light up its on-premise messaging. […]

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Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 9:49 AM

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Projects: Vodafone Goes Big On Digital Signage Down Under

Mobile network operator Vodafone’s Australian wing has gone big on digital signage in its retail stores, switching on a national network that will exceed more than 1,200 screens before the year is out. […]

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Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:08 AM

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Five Digital Signage Options For Tabletop Interactive Displays

Touchscreen tables are powerful tools for collaboration, interactivity and engagement. Customers in a retail store can use them to learn more about a product or service. An enterprise can use one to allow multiple users to collaborate on the same projects in one physical space – anything from architectural drawings to seismic imaging. […]

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Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 12:42 PM

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16:9: Six Main Arguments For Digital Signage In Public Transportation

Guest Post: Till Carlos, OnSign.TV I have a terrible sense of orientation. Perhaps skipping geography class to grab coffee might have contributed to that but in my defense the coffee was very good! Why am I telling you this? You see, people like me have a tendency to get lost easily. […]

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Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 10:47 AM

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