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16:9: If Your (Digital Signage Software) Pitch Is All About Simple, Easy And Affordable, You’re Dead

If your company is in the digital signage software business, and your big pitch through this trade show season and beyond is all built around what you have being simple and easy to use, you’re a dead company walking. Scores of companies say their content management system is some variation on simple, easy, friendly and affordable. Those are great attributes. […]

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Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:51 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Sean Keathley, Adrenaline

This week, we’re talking experience design with Sean Keathley, the president of Adrenaline, an Atlanta-based company that’s in the business of coming up with the strategy, the content and technologies to make spaces like banks, stores and hospitals really work. […]

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Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 12:02 AM

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Walmart OKs Trial Of Car-Buying Kiosks In Select U.S. Stores

An online car-buying service has struck a leasing deal with Walmart to start putting interactive kiosks in 25 U.S. stores this spring. […]

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Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 12:50 AM

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Coates Hires McDonald’s POS & Kiosk Chief As New U.S. GM

New hires at digital signage companies don’t seem to generate many page views on Sixteen:Nine, but this one might be different – a company focused on digital services for QSRs has hired the woman who was previously McDonald’s Director of Global Point of Sale and Self-Order Kiosk. Kim Moore is now the U.S. […]

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Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 3:26 PM

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16:9: Stephanie Gutnik explains programmatic DOOH ad buying, SSPs and DSPs

Guest Post: Stephanie Gutnik, BroadSign If you spend anytime thinking about advertising in digital signage these days, you have likely come across the term programmatic. Stephanie Gutnik You might also be unsure of what that P Word means, as the term has been co-opted and used in many ways. To further the confusion, throw in all of its accompanying acronyms, like SSPs and DSPs. […]

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Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 2:20 AM

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NanoLumens In Midst of $30M Raise To Boost Production, Marketing

It looks like Atlanta-based specialty LED display manufacturer NanoLumens plans to put its foot on the business gas pedal in the coming year, as it is in the midst of a $30 million investor round for capital to boost production and marketing. The company, reports Atlanta Business Chronicle, has already raised at least $7 million of that. […]

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Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 11:04 AM

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16:9: Back To The Future In Retail Tech

Guest Post: Stuart Armstrong, ComQi In an odd twist, a massive high-tech investment in omni-channel, big data and IoT is taking retailers back to the future – back to something they used to know and do well: creating relationships with their customers. Stuart Armstrong Older generations grew up knowing their local grocer. Their butcher. […]

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Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 8:56 AM

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Sidewalk Campaign Uses Digital Displays, Sensors To Shame Swedish Smokers

A Swedish pharmacy chain, Apotek Hjärtat, is running a digital OOH campaign in that country that uses sensors and triggered content to needle and shame passing cigarette smokers. […]

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Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 12:14 AM

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6 Ways To Get People Looking At Your Digital Signs.

Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix You’ve spent untold resources – both time and money – getting your digital signage system up and running. But is it working? Do people look at your screens? […]

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Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 10:34 AM

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16:9: Legal Marijuana Boom An Opportunity For Digital Signage Firm, But Won’t Be Easy

A few digital signage companies I know have been taking a look at the rapidly rising number of U.S. states that are now allowing the open sale of recreational and/or medical marijuana, and thinking this was a still early stage business vertical they could tap into. […]

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Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 9:23 AM

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Reflect Hires Major Client As New CEO

In an interesting, slightly odd twist, Dallas-based solutions provider/softwareco Reflect has appointed the guy at the center of one of the company’s higher profile projects as its new CEO. […]

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Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 12:55 PM

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16:9: How Advertising Will Evolve With Smart And Connected Cities

Guest Post: Kenneth Brinkmann, Posterscope USA Kenneth Brinkmann The rise of connected cities provides three major opportunities for the OOH industry. First, our industry will have much greater access to more accurate real-time location data thanks to connectivity of all objects. If we look ahead into 2020, Gartner estimates that 25 billion objects will be connected to the Internet. […]

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Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:25 AM

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16:9: STRATACACHE Acquires Another Rival Digital Signage Software Firm, Real Digital Media

Chris Riegel is continuing to buy up competitors in the digital signage software space, with news bright and early this morning that his Dayton, OH-based company STRATACACHE has acquired Sarasota, FL-based Real Digital Media. Both are content management software firms with similar products – though Stratacache has a much bigger headcount and sells much more in terms of services and hardware. […]

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Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 8:47 AM

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16:9: Is This The Most Digital Signage-Rich Store In Canada?

There’s always some other place with more, but in my travels, I’ve just come back from the most digital signage-rich store I’ve seen to date. The Best Buy at Heartland Town Centre in Mississauga, a city part of the greater Toronto metropolis, has screens everywhere. I wouldn’t say it was incredibly well done. […]

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Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 5:37 PM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Rich Ventura, NEC Display Solutions

Rich Ventura now has the launch codes and the secret handshake instructions to act as the 2017 chairman of the Digital Signage Federation. He’s been active in the organization for several years, and has big plans for the year ahead. […]

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Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 12:10 AM

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