Sixteen:Nine - All Digital Signage, Some Snark

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY  SCREENFEED  –  DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT One of the things I noticed bombing around the two exhibit halls at InfoComm in June was how most of the digital signage software companies were located in one hall, and some of them not looking all that busy, while there were at least a couple of others in the other hall, and they were packed with people. One of those compan...

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY  SCREENFEED  –  DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT When an announcement came out about the experiential work being planned for the new Terminal One at New York's JFK Airport , I was familiar with some of the parties involved but not the one guiding it all - a design consultancy called Arup . I clicked over to LinkedIn and was surprised to learn this wasn't some little boutiqu...

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY  SCREENFEED  –  DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT I managed to talk the AV team running the main conference room at the recent Digital Signage Summit in Munich to give me the audio off the board for three of the sessions I either moderated or spoke on. The third of three that I did was an unscripted chat with conference hosts Florian Rotberg and Stefan Schieker, of invidis,...

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY  SCREENFEED  –  DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT I managed to talk the AV team running the main conference room at the recent Digital Signage Summit in Munich to give me the audio off the board for three of the sessions I either moderated or spoke on. The second of three that I did was focused on how to adapt to varying vertical markets, and that involved talking to compani...

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY  SCREENFEED  –  DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT I managed to talk the AV team running the main conference room at the recent Digital Signage Summit in Munich to give me the audio off the board for three of the sessions I either moderated or spoke on. The first was focused on IT security, which I will admit is NOT an area I’m overly conversant in. But I had a couple of good...

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY  SCREENFEED  –  DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT There's been a steady stream of announcements in the past couple of years about new sports and entertainment venues going up in the US and elsewhere, and one of the notable attributes about these developments is that they are not just stadiums and arenas - they're big commercial developments anchored by that kind of building...

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY  SCREENFEED  –  DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Jay Leedy probably had a bunch of options open to him when he decided he'd done his job with Sony's pro display team, and it might have surprised some of his industry friends when he signed on with a much smaller company, New York-based Videri , as its Senior VP for Strategic Alliances. It didn't surprise me, because Videri h...

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY  SCREENFEED  –  DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT I have invested a lot of time in the last six or seven years trying to educate myself on LED display technology and terminology, but sometimes it feels like I have mountain to climb and I am still at base camp looking for my oxygen bottle stash. Manufacturers and their marketers keep coming up with new terms and acronyms, and...

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY  SCREENFEED  –  DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT When the pandemic hit and a lot of people started working from home, many digital signage CMS software companies started developing and releasing solutions that pushed the digital signage messaging more normally posted on screens around workplaces to the laptop and computer monitor screens in the formal or ad hoc workspaces c...

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY  SCREENFEED  –  DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT The health care sector has long struck me as having environments and dynamics that would benefit a lot from using digital signage technology. Accurate information is critically important, and things change quickly and often - in ways that make paper and dry erase marker board solutions seem antiquated and silly. But it is a t...

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY  SCREENFEED  –  DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT When I first spoke with Jonathan Labbee about the grand-scale media facades and displays being produced by SACO Technologies , the Sphere in Las Vegas was just yet another over-the-top  thing rising up from the desert sands. Two years on, and a few months after the giant LED ball was first switched on, the Sphere is probably...

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY  SCREENFEED  –  DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT When I first spoke with industry lifer IV Dickson about his move from software to the managed services firm SageNet , the company was still in the relatively early days of getting itself organized to chase and then service digital signage opportunities. Five years on, digital in environments like chain retail and QSR are a co...

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY  SCREENFEED  –  DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT When I asked an industry friend, whose opinions I respect and trust quite a bit, what CMS software he'd looked at and been impressed by, he rattled off a few companies I was expecting to hear about, but also mentioned the platform developed and marketed by a smallish UK company called NowSignage . He'd seen a lot of different...

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY  SCREENFEED  –  DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT There is a lot of glass in public and commercial spaces, and the pro AV and digital signage industries have been applying all kinds of technologies to turn things like windows and dividers into part-time or full-time displays. In most cases, those jobs have come with compromises. There are films that might start curling at th...

The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY  SCREENFEED  –  DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Using data is pretty much integral to just about any ambitious and involved digital signage network being spun up these days, but for a lot of vendors and their customers, it's still a relatively new concept and approach. That's definitely not the case for the Toronto-area CMS software firm Omnivex , which has been around for...