Four Winds Interactive is going ahead with a third edition of its annual Forward conference in Denver, the software company’s home city. The Oct. 10-12 event targets existing and prospective clients, but is also pretty good networking for vendors within FWI’s ecosystem. […]
Elevators is what got me into digital signage waaaay back in 1999, so I am always intrigued by stories of how screens continue to be integrated in elevator cars. The giant Merchandise Mart in Chicago, a commercial building with 4.2 million sq. ft. […]
James Fine has been around the digital signage ecosystem since the earliest days. He founded Telecine in the mid-80s to do high-end video production for the corporate sector. By the mid-90s, he was getting into signage, putting networked screens in Quebec casinos. […]
San Francisco is one of the top trade show and convention markets in the country and possibly the world. It also happens to be a fantastic city for food, drink, sights, and shopping. I often spend a lot of my time in markets checking out the media we place for our clients in and around the convention center. […]
The first time I placed Virtual Reality (VR) goggles on my head, I was not too impressed with the immersion experience that I was having. The goggles were bulky, I was tripping over the tether cord, and I was accidentally hitting people as I doodled a squiggle masterpiece with Google Tilt Brush. In short, I could not untether from the real world — as the technology promised. […]
Tightrope Media Systems has been around the digital signage business for 20 years, and if you’ve heard of the company, there’s a decent chance you thought, like me, that the Minneapolis firm was a broadcast software company that also did a signage CMS. […]
The Swedish firm ZetaDisplay continues to roll up other companies in the Scandinavian market, doing a deal to acquire Seasam Oy, the second largest supplier of digital signage in Finland. The company, based in Malmo, had done deals earlier for other providers in Finland and Norway. […]
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. […]
I’m going to the circus, I’m going to the fair, To see the pretty ladies With flowers in their hair! Getting ready for a festival day in NYC combines the best of both worlds; the sense of being free that comes with the festival life, and the hustle and bustle of a large city. […]
Diversified is continuing its brisk march to become the largest pro AV and signage systems integrator in North America (if it’s not already) with news today of its acquiring CompView. The Beaverton, OR (Portland) integrator was listed as a top 15 integrator in the US, and gives Diversified an expanded customer base and talent in eight locations. […]
The lineup for Digital Signage Summit Europe, early next month in Munich, has been pretty much locked down and the organizers at Invidis are doing a last big push on attendees. The two day event is at the Internationales Congress Center München on July 5th and 6th. […]
I had a great chat recently with Susie Opare-Abetia, the CEO and Founder of Wovenmedia. Her company does all the heavy-lifting work to connect digital signage and place-based networks with video from major content producers like TV networks, movie studios and pro sports. If you are in a big U.S. […]
Guest Post: Loren Bucklin, ConnectedSign The single biggest content mistake being made in digital signage is asking displays to do too much. Put simply, many screens are way over-populated with data and information. It sometimes seems like the mistakes made in the print world have migrated to the digital signage displays. […]
Politics and laws are in a bit of “who knows what’s gonna happen next?” state these days in the U.S., but assuming states that decriminalized marijuana are not shut down federally, this is a big growth area for a bunch of industries – including digital signage. […]
Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix Recognition – The “Why” “Good job!” Two little words that can make all the difference to an employee. Employee recognition is one of the hot topics these days in all business sectors, and with good reason. […]
