The whole turnkey solution thing for digital signage has been around forever – sold by pure-play “solutions providers/integrators” – but also, more recently, by software companies looking to add more margin-based revenues and close deals by saying to clients that they’ll pull all the bits together. […]
Jibestream is a Toronto-based indoor mapping specialist company that has been working around the edges of the digital signage market for the past six or seven years, and some recent strategic shifts have really helped the company get marketplace traction, with triple-digit growth. […]
We all know the world is going digital and things like brochures and pamphlets don’t have a big future – but it’s not a shift that’s going to happen abruptly. Go to a car dealership or bank, or real estate presentation centre, and you are still going to see a lot of printed material being pushed at and happily received by customers. […]
Adobe’s Marc Eaman demonstrates Smart Bag during Adobe Summit. Photo: Maralise Petersen. Some clients and contacts have been telling me lately that creative production software giant Adobe is starting to get active in the digital signage space – a logical move as the creative they enable – like print and OOH advertising – shifts from analog to digital. […]
It’s very logical to think of Christie as a display hardware company, but if you stop and think about it, you realize it takes solid software to make those projectors and display cubes and LCDs and LEDs all run properly. The company has announced it has hired an ex-Blackberry guy to be its director of solutions software. […]
So much of the content that I see developed for screens in specific vertical markets and use cases follows perfectly acceptable, but highly predictable patterns. Corporate screens get staff messaging. Retail gets sales and promotion. So it’s interesting to see a project – this one in health care – that does something different. […]
A regular reader sent in a note from a departure lounge at JFK, where a media company and airport management team decided to put an interactive “experience” screen on a support column. Problem is, if it’s like the scene at most U.S. airports, an optimal experience for passengers is finding a precious seat at a gate, not killing time taking faux pix with the Statue of Liberty. […]
STRATACACHE, Booth 2710 Chris Riegel, the Founder/CEO of Stratacache and the ultimate road warrior of digital signage, sent this acerbic note (from the road) on what to expect from his Dayton, Ohio-based software/hardware company at next week’s Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas. Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? […]
Aussie athletic wear retailer Rebel opened a new concept “Accelerate Store” in November 2015 that puts a heavy emphasis on digital and interactive. Rebel’s new 1,100 sq. […]
Cenique, Booth 236 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Here are the 3 top reasons you MUST SEE Cenique at DSE: Affordable, Android-based Media Players starting at just $325 MSRP + 4K capability We’re introducing our new AIOs! […]
Wayne Rasor and Nick Jerome of FASTSIGNS, at Google booth DSE 2015 The print shop franchisor FASTSIGNS International has done a deal with tech giant Google, becoming a Google for Work Partner with a view to marketing ChromeOS-based digital signage solutions via its 900 or so FASTSIGNS centers. […]
Hughes Network Systems, Booth 1434 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? 2016 Theme: ENGAGE. IMMERSE. […]
Most of us are familiar with the typical fitting room experience: Standing in front of a less than spotless full-length mirror, cycling through various changes of clothes in an often fruitless effort to find something that fits and looks right. Now imagine an entirely different fitting room experience — one where the mirror rests on top of an interactive LCD panel. […]
GUEST POST, Richard Fortin, ITESmedia Have you ever seen digital signage monitors that aren’t working, or are completely ineffective? With more than 11 years of experience in the installation of digital signage solutions, we have seen many situations that have often led to screens being turned off. […]
GUEST POST: Pat Hellberg, The Preset Group iTunes debuted. Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected Governor of California. Limp Bizkit and Clay Aiken were popular music acts. And we launched a digital signage network. The year was 2003. […]
