Industry News

No. America Still Positive about DOOH

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Postive Outlook

After a difficult Q2, 97% of all survey participants in No. America still remain positive about the future of the Digital Out-of-Home. 59% of respondents indicated they felt “very positive” and 38% “somewhat positive” about the industry’s future.

As in past quarters, those most positive about the DOOH Industry varied across each of the three main groups of respondents: Technology/Content Providers (53% “very positive”), Advertising/Marketing Professionals (65% “very positive”), and End Users/OOH Network Operators (70% “very positive”).

Key Findings from this survey....

  • 97% of all survey participants continue to be positive about the future of the DS industry.
  • 51% end users/network operators reported actual DOOH Advertising Revenues were 6% Higher than Q1
  • DOOH business projections for revenues in Q3 are anticipated to be the same or higher.
  • End user companies report that their financial commitment to new or upgraded installations remains unchanged.
  • Hottest industry growth categories for the next twelve months include: retail, restaurant, education, transportation, and healthcare.
  • Over one-third of Ad Agency participants indicated that Q2 advertising spending was up over Q1.
  • While over two-thirds of that same group forecast an even higher spend in Q3.
  • Top DOOH Network categories that Ad Agencies are investing in include: retail, restaurant, arts/entertainment/recreation, education, bars/taverns/nightclubs, and healthcare.

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Taiwan Strategically Eyes Digital Signage

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Statistics show that the global digital signage industry is growing by over 30% each year.

The key to this huge market is constant innovation and the development of new applications. The explosive growth in the digital signage market has drawn the interest of top Western, Korean and Japanese vendors.

All are moving aggressively to capture a slice of the global digital signage market.

In the face of such intense competition, what is so unique about Taiwan's digital signage industry that allows it to compete in the international market?

Watch the video as Taiwan answers…

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InfoComm Goes Digital Signage

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The industry's fastest growing segment of the ProAV market was well represented last month at InfoComm with more than 50 exhibitors that specialized in DS products. rAVe USA documented most of the important news...here are some of our favorite videos:

Visix
Visix launches a suite of new products CQ Media’s CQ Campus and Hypersign updates at InfoComm

CognoVision’s demo in the NEC booth

Sharp’s PN-E421 Digital Signage Monitor!

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The iAd Network: Personal Digital Signage

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We are about to witness the largest deployment of digital signage in history.

That's right - the largest deployment of digital signage technology, ever.

How big?

Well, well over 100 million (yes, million) people (translation: sets of eyeballs) will instantly be part of the world's largest digital signage network tomorrow (July 1st) when Apple launches iAd on the iPhone, iPod Touch and, one assumes, the iPad.

The iAd Network: Personal Digital Signage
Apple has laid out its plan with iAd and it's pretty simple - advertisers can embed "interactive" ads inside Apps (I also assumes that eventually - although this hasn't been addressed directly by Apple, yet - ads could be embedded into other services that Apple includes on all iPhones (e.g., Mail, Text Messaging/MMS, Safari).

However, these aren't just banner ads, the ads are interactive such that you can run the ad totally inside the App itself and when you finish the ad, go back to where you were in the App. May not seem like a big deal, but one of the biggest complaints of banner ads is that they take you somewhere on a website that you may not want to go - thus, many people never click on them.

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Bell Micro Signs Pan Euro Agreement with Minicom DS

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Bell Micro will distribute and support a wide range of Minicom DS products, services and solutions and will specialize in providing end-to-end Digital Signage solutions to its European sales channels.

Minicom DS

Bell Micro made a strategic decision to enter the growing Digital Signage market over 3 years ago. In order to strengthen its portfolio, Bell Micro contracted alliances with various Digital Signage industry vendors such as screens, players and software vendors. Bell Micro is now able to offer a complete Digital Signage solution complemented by Minicom DS’s media infrastructure solutions.

Bell Micro, a Fortune 1000 company is one of the world's largest IT storage-centric value-added distributors with revenues of over €1.3 billion in Europe (and $3bn world-wide).

Go Bell Micro acquired by Avnet in April 2010

Go Minicom Digital Signage