SES to Carry First FTA UltraHD Channel
SES will broadcast Europe’s first free-to-air UltraHD channel, Pearl.tv, when it goes live in September. Pearl.tv is a shopping channel that will be broadcast in Germany.
The Mobile Device Market on the Move – Again
Market research firms have been reducing their tablet forecast since the sales growth has been slowing in 2014. The latest numbers from IDC, which we reported on earlier, show a 6% decline in the first quarter of 2015 compared to the first quarter of 2014. It seems that there’s a new trend developing that does … Read more
Mitsubishi Announces Next Generation FLEXConnect In-Car Infotainment System
Mitsubishi Electric has announced its latest generation of the FLEXConnect In-Vehicle Infotainment systems (IVI) in a press release. The latest system provides a cost effective three screen user interface. The displays contain touch and swipe technology to provide a safe and consistent user interface to the car systems. The three screen interface includes a 12.1″ … Read more
Smartphones Spur Shift in Small/Medium Display Panel Demand, IHS Says
Ongoing improvements in smartphone display performance is leading to increasing demand for high-resolution panels with lower power consumption requirements, which are not supported by the most common legacy technologies (non-crystalline thin-film silicon or a-Si for short). According to IHS Inc. (NYSE: IHS),, the leading global source of critical information and insight, overall global shipments of … Read more
New IDC Forecast Asserts Worldwide Internet of Things Market to Grow 19% in 2015, Led by Digital Signage
The worldwide Internet of Things (IoT) market is expected to grow 19% in 2015, led by digital signage, according to a new forecast from International Data Corporation (IDC). The second annual forecast focuses on growing IoT use in 11 vertical industries, including consumer, retail, healthcare, government, manufacturing, transportation, and other industries, while also sizing IoT … Read more
Fraunhofer FEP Coatings Enable Efficient Laser Beam Expander for Holographic Displays
(If this story looks familiar, we covered it last week [Fraunhofer Coatings Enable Full-Laser Backlights], but Chris got a lot of extra information.) Fraunhofer Institute for Organic Electronics, Electron Beam and Plasma Technology (FEP) has developed and manufactured an anti-reflective coating stack that is a key element of a backlight for laser-based holographic displays. The … Read more
Merck KGaA Presents Expanded Portfolio and New Developments at SID Display Week 2015
Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading company for innovative and top-quality high-tech products in the healthcare, life science and performance materials sectors, will be presenting an expanded product range at the SID Display Week 2015. With its state-of-the-art liquid crystal mixtures for displays, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, has been the global market and technology leader … Read more
DailyDOOH Summit Roundup
Ayuda Media Systems‘ CEO Andreas Soupliotis (“The only man ever to return a Tesla because he didn’t like the UI”, said Cotterill) spoke in great detail about programmatic buying – but it was very hard to follow! Even media buyers I talked to said that they had struggled. The holy grail – for Soupliotis – … Read more
How to Market DOOH
After spending seven years at Google and just over a year at ITV, Sarah Speake joined Clear Channel this year as the company’s chief marketing officer. She was discussing marketing (of course!) for the DOOH industry. Before beginning, Speake said that it would be remiss of her not to be mention the incident in Tooting … Read more
Gatwick Moves With the Market
Spencer Sheen, head of retail at Gatwick, discussed the changes that have been put in place since the airport came under new management in 2009. Gatwick is now the world’s busiest single-runway airport, with 43 airlines flying 38.4 million passengers to 65 countries annually. The airport’s share of the UK market has risen from 21.7% … Read more
JCDecaux Prepares for Smart Cities
Smart cities are a big topic in the DOOH industry, but no-one is very clear on the meaning of the phrase. Albert Asséraf of JCDecaux noted that there are more than 220 million search results for these terms on Google! Some of the areas that Asséraf believes should be included in the definition are ‘Economy’, … Read more
DOOH in Other Regions
Sikander AhmedYou may not realise it, but London leads the world in DOOH, said Cotterill at the start of the next session; go to New York and you’ll see for yourself. Anecdotally, UK business people like Tim Bleakley of Ocean Outdoor have spoken at DailyDOOH conferences in the USA and have been handed a business … Read more
