What They Say
Invidis releases a ‘yearbook’ every year with details of the digital signage market in Europe. It’s available for free download here in English and German versions. Topics covered included:
- Green issues including power consumption of LEDs and EU power regulations
- Consolidation in the integrator market in Europe – led by Ricoh and Sharp.
- There is some data on the EU LFD market. It said that Samsung has 35%, LG has 15% and Philips 7%, while the others are 43%
- Distributor rankings and global and EU integrator rankings.
- Software and CMS providers
- Interactive technologies
What We Think
The data for the LFD market was from Futuresource and consists of ‘manufacturer reports’ and views of an editorial board. I got out of the market research business when too many of the largest brands decided to stop supplying data. When it was just one or two, I had been able to fill the gaps by a bit of industry collaboration, providing European data and detail to others who supplied global data. However, eventually, I could see that I was going to miss too much, so as I couldn’t reach the quality that made me comfortable, so I exited the business by selling it. Futuresource, judging by the wording, has the same challenge, but has continued. The firm thinks that Philips is now bigger than NEC/Sharp, which used to be third. (BR)
