The famed Sixteen:Nine Happy Hour is coming back — at the AVIXA and DSF D=SIGN Digital Signage Conference! In the meantime, check out this videocast with rAVe’s Gary Kayye and Sixteen:Nine’s own Dave Haynes, chatting about the state of the digital signage market, too! It’s worth the watch! Space for the happy hour is limited to 300. Don’t miss it — register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dsign-happy-hour-hosted-by-avixa-and-sixteennine-registration-128767987517 Podcast: […]
Dave Haynes, founder and blogger over at Sixteen:Nine, has launched an innovative service for digital signage operators in need of high-quality video content to run on a DS network. Spotomate is a cloud-based video template creation platform. Which, is a fancy way of saying that you drag-and-drop photos and enter text onto a template in a […]
Dave Haynes, digital signage expert, blogger at Sixteen:Nine and founding member at The Preset Group, is organizing a new digital signage conference that will be held in Toronto this September. The conference, called DSrupted, will focus on disruptive technologies such as evolving Web services, micro-computing, HTML5, display canvases and data-driven content and how they are […]
It’s really not that long ago when people in this sector were pretty giddy to even see a digital signage screen or two integrated into the back wall of a hotel reception desk. Now, with dropping prices and better technology, digital signage can BE the back wall. David Levin, the president of Four Winds Interactive, […]
ComQi announced the launch of five new place-based mobile applications interacting with digital signage displays in a retail venue. Powered by ComQi’s Interaction Manager, these mobile Apps include: voting, information and couponing, group buying, quizzes and games. According to ComQi, consumers can connect to the Interaction Manager platform with their smart phones through a variety […]
LA-based digital signage software firm UCView has joined the ranks of companies competing for the entry-level to mid-sized business market with a bundle billed as dead-easy to fire up and start using. One element of the pitch behind the SignEdge bundle – player and software – is that activating and using the platform for the […]
Marketing Charts has some useful insights up from a recent survey looking into how consumers actually perceive and use buzz-heavy QR code technology. As it turns out, only one in five people knew what they were and of those who did and have actually whipped out their smartphone and scanned, nearly three in five did […]
We’ve been talking a lot about consolidation in the digital signage sector because there are way too many solutions options out there. But not all that consolidation is going to be on the M&A side. Sometimes, it will be two companies choosing to work together instead of competing. Consider the news this week about a […]
I don’t write a lot about corporate communications projects because they rarely seem to get discussed, perhaps because the jobs are smaller one-offs done by resellers and integrators with non-existent PR machines. However, there’s a lot of those jobs out there. Of course, one of the big challenges with corporate comms jobs is figuring out […]
This is a little after the fact – and I vaguely remember seeing a Tweet over the holidays about it – but nonetheless, here is word about a nice project in Singapore developed to promote the Heineken beer brand. The Social Tree was an 11-meter tall faux Christmas tree erected under a canopy at Singapore’s […]
I wasn’t going to do a 2011 look-back thing because frankly, I operate in a little bit of a bubble in my home office and live bait shop, and don’t get out to see enough that I could tell you what really was the best and worst. How do you see everything, or even a […]
DV Signage, aka Digital View, has come out with a nice little tweak to one of its workhorse products that introduces a low-cost solution for companies that want to tie messaging to GPS coordinates. Its ViewStream 300GPS, says a release, allows the automatic triggering of specific videos and images according to realtime GPS data, on […]
Shuttle has been around for ages with smallish PCs that are about the size of toasters – good for tight spots in an equipment cabinet or up on a shelf, but still too big and bulky to attach to the back of a display panel. I see from the blizzard of press coming out of […]
Software maker Scala is continuing its push — and pretty much a solitary push — into the digital picture frame market. The company has announced a strategic partnership with Isabella Products to “develop sales, marketing, and technology initiatives for 2012 and beyond for the digital signage market.” Based outside of Boston, Isabella describes itself as […]
The virtual dressing room-augmented reality thing has been around for a few years, and the first iterations by companies like Zugara were pretty interesting but well off from truly ready for the marketplace. As you might expect, the applications keep getting better (including Zugara’s), but a new one by a company called FaceCake looks just […]
A lot of times I don’t write about stuff because it’s just not all that interesting –- the steady drip-drip of announcements of turnkey solutions (!!!) and remarkable (not) software advances being good examples. Other times, there’s something there… but not enough to write a full-bodied post and then find an image so the home […]
Robin Wauters at TechCrunch did a great piece recently about words he would love to see banned from press releases. It is very Silicon Valley-focused, but much of what he had to write could be applied to this sector. I thought I would use that for inspiration for my own, DS-centric list. The hype in […]
