Let’s face it – digital signage. with some exceptions, is a glance medium. What’s scheduled to screens has seconds to get noticed, absorbed or ignored. […]
Let’s cut to the chase, short and sweet. Digital signage has evolved. Period, and end of sentence. […]
The Korea Economic Research Institute, a state-run research organization, says the digital signage market will create around 70,000 jobs by the year 2020. I assume these jobs will be in South Korea (not globally), and I’ve no idea how the group got to that big number. The KERI report also suggests the digital signage business will generate $8.7 billion worth of production. […]
Following on the old, here’s a very new take on signage – my presentation last Tuesday morning in Las Vegas at the InfoComm Digital Signage Summit. It’s not really a look at the market as a whole. […]
Wow, just stumbled on this presentation I did in Montreal, at some conference or other, back in early 2009. I had most of what I was blabbering on about right, but it’s so old I was talking about Flash and Silverlight. Back then, I was also a lot more bullish about digital OOH. […]
Viktor Petersson is kind of “the man” when it comes to making digital signage run on a $45 Raspberry Pi mini PC. For the last four years, Viktor’s company Screenly has been focused on developing and evolving a signage solution specifically for the Raspberry Pi. […]
Guest Post: Curtis Tilly, Microspace Connectivity is the unsung hero of digital signage, making possible the whole idea of delivering the right message at the right time, in the right location, to the right audience. On-screen content, media delivery, file forwarding and system monitoring all depend on taking a reliable, scalable and cost-effective approach to connectivity. […]
The University of Kent, in the south of England, is using digital signage at its redeveloped library to help students find and use services. Thirty-five Samsung Smart Signage displays have been installed around the library by UK-based Eclipse Digital Media, using the cloud-based digital signage software, embed signage. “Navigating around the large 15,000 sq. […]
In this episode of Sixteen:Nine Podcasts, I’m speaking with Stu Armstrong, President of the Americas for ComQi, a CMS software and services company with offices in London, New York and Toronto. Stu talks about the opportunities and challenges of working with the retail sector, and how after many years, signage is getting some serious traction in stores. […]
Guest Post: Mark McDermott, ScreenCloud Personalization has long been recognized as the key to cutting through noise in our over-saturated digital world. In digital signage, where you have just seconds to grab attention against the passer-by’s friends, iPhone or work schedule, it’s even more crucial. Let’s say your audience is in the 50-65 year-old cohort. […]
Atlanta-based solutions provider Convergent has re-packaged its marketplace offer and given it a new handle: Digital Signage As A Service, or DSaaS. That kinda sounds like a ski resort in Austria, but I assume people will talk it up as Dee-Sass and all will be fine. […]
Guest Post: Michael Tutton, Crown Content I was brought once into a big digital signage project to provide content for a $250,000 display set-up, two hours before it was all set to go live. Sounds crazy, right? It was. […]
Ubuntu has long been one of, if not the, go-to variants of the Linux operating system for digital signage media players, but that’s been on “real” x86 computers. Now there’s work underway to pair the new Internet of Things-focused version of the open-source software with Raspberry Pi micro-PCs, and run a digital signage platform off it. […]
Guest Post: Tim Strähle, Adversign Media This is part 2 of a three-part series about retail detail signage and the Internet of Things. It’s based on excerpts from a broader white paper by the digital signage CMS firm Adversign Media, which markets Viewneo. It is available here. […]
Guest Post: Debbie Dewitt, Visix The workplace of the 21st century is a different animal than what some of us grew up with. With the dominant generations working being Generation Xers and Millennials, expectations and ideas of what makes a place worth working for are different than they were. Businesses are changing what they offer and how they do things to accommodate these new mentalities. […]
