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16:9: Stratacache Buys the Tallest Building In Dayton, Pegged As Head Office in 18-24 Months

Stratacache has bought yet another building – with the newest property pegged as the future head office for the digital signage solutions company. The building is the tallest in Dayton, Ohio – where CEO Chris Riegel lives and has aggressively been expanding the core company and a succession of acquired software and hardware that fall under the “group of companies. […]

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Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 2:26 AM

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16:9: What Research Says Is Working With Digital Signage In Retail Bankling

This week we look at how the financial services industry is using digital signage in branches, and more to the point, what works and why. Angela Vanderburg is the Digital Practice Lead for Consumer Banking and Retail Financial Services for Q Division, the retail-focused digital strategy consultancy that was launched by STRATACACHE. […]

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Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 1:11 AM

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16:9: STRATACACHE Owner And CEO Riegel Buys Office Tower In Dayton

The dollar goes a bit further in Dayton, Ohio, the head office city of the digital signage solutions company STRATACACHE. The company’s owner and CEO Chris Riegel has purchased a 12-storey office block in the city’s downtown – the Courthouse Plaza building at 10 N. Ludlow Street – for $1.67 million. […]

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Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 4:35 AM

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16:9: STRATACACHE Acquires Chinese Specialty DisplayCo; Rebrands As Scala China

There is now a Scala China, in the wake of parent company STRATACACHE acquiring a tablet and computing device manufacturing company based in Ningbo, China. The company, formerly known as POPSCREENS, is now Scala China – positioned as a solution for interactive retail displays. The deal gets CEO Chris Riegel a 250,000 square foot manufacturing facility, and more than 125 new employees. […]

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Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 3:00 AM

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Listen To Coffee And Controversy 2018

I was in New York last week for the Digital Signage Federation’s annual Coffee and Controversy breakfast event – a panel discussion that each year brings together some of the most influential leaders in the digital signage industry. It was the biggest one to date, with some 225 people turning out at Google’s NYC offices for the talk. […]

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Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 12:22 AM

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Stratacache CEO Expects Headcount To Top 1,000 By Early 2019

There’s a bunch of interesting nuggets of information in a local paper’s interview with Stratacache CEO Chris Riegel – most notably that he expects to be north of 1,000 employees within a year. Talking to the Dayton Daily News, Riegel says he’s now at 750, with 320 of them in Dayton. […]

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Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 8:11 AM

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16:9: X2O Media Takes Old Founder To Court, Alleging Trade Secrets Used For His New Company

Digital signage management software firm X2O Media is going after its old CEO in a Las Vegas court, claiming his new firm has misappropriated trade secrets. X2O is also claiming, as reflected in filings with the US District Court in Nevada, breach of contract and trademark infringement by Xentiant Technologies and its founder David Wilkins. […]

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Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 6:15 AM

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16:9: STRATACACHE Acquisitions Starting To Get Blended To Round Out Products

STRATACACHE is starting to mash up some of its acquisitions to create more well-rounded and attractive products and services – notably an update to its convenience store checkout network that uses the analytics platform of a company brought into the “family” in 2017. […]

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Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 7:32 AM

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From The Archive: Chris Riegel On Growing His Stratacache Empire

It is VERY hard to find people working – full days, or at all – in the lovely, hot summer most of us are seeing in North America and Europe. A couple of podcast interviews have fallen through in recent days, so I decided to go into the archive and revive an episode from a couple of years back. […]

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Wed, Aug 1, 2018 at 12:10 AM

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16:9: STRATACACHE Buys X2O Media From Barco

STRATACACHE has acquired Montreal CMS software shop X20 Media from the Belgian visual solutions firm Barco, four years after Barco bought the company in what at least some observers (like me) thought was a head-scratcher. […]

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Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 1:00 PM

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16:9: Emerging Trend: Digital Out-of-Home Advertising Audits

Guest Post: Ken Goldberg, Real Digital Media The Independent Credibility Fixes for Ad Supported DOOH Ken Goldberg The positioning of ad-supported digital out of home has always been in flux. As the industry began its ascent, it was considered an alternative to television advertising. The parallels were certainly there, given the reliance upon audio and video on a screen. […]

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Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 7:56 AM

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Photo: STRATACACHE, Scala Hold Americas Sales Summit For 65

STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel sent me a photo from this week’s sales meetings in, I think, suburban Philly, where Scala is based. STRATACACHE is based in Dayton, OH but flying into Philly would be a lot easier. The meeting is the 2018 sales summit for North and South America, and involves about 65 people, he writes. […]

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Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 7:24 AM

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16:9: Riegel, Stratacache Now Have 100% Ownership Of Scala

STRATACACHE now has 100% ownership of Scala, having acquired all outstanding Scala shares and Scala divisions around the globe including Scala Inc., Scala BV, Scala KK and Scala Nordic AS. “Scala has created an excellent brand and execution footprint around the globe over the past thirty years, tailoring their digital signage offerings to the specific needs of each global region. […]

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Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 11:07 AM

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The Total Guide To Fine Pitch LED: A 16:9 Special Report

There’s a lot of buzz in the digital signage industry, as well as the markets the industry serves, about fine pixel pitch LED displays, and their ability to create bright, seamless visuals that transform spaces. […]

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Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 5:44 PM

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16:9: Stratacache Adopts Auto Plant Practices To Produce New Drive-Thru Displays By 1,000s At Dayton Factory

Dayton, Ohio-based STRATACACHE is known primarily in the digital signage industry as an aggressive, fast-moving software and solutions company, and I doubt many industry people think about the company as a hardware manufacturer. But STRATACACHE is now very seriously into manufacturing outdoor-ready displays for the largest U.S. […]

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Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 9:35 AM

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