Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jeff Hastings, BrightSign

August 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes

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If you’re looking for concrete evidence that the digital signage business is now doing some serious volume, consider the word on this latest Sixteen:Nine podcast from Jeff Hastings, the CEO of BrightSign. His shipping department is packing and moving roughly 1,000 units a day.

Let me repeat that … a day.

BrightSign designs, builds and markets little purple boxes used by a LOT of network operators as media players. In our chat, Hastings talks about BrightSign’s direct ties to another purple box company in Silicon Valley, Roku, and how that relationship has evolved.

One of the really sharp guys in this industry, Hastings talks about why the company is moving so much product this year, and how it will soon have more than 1 million units deployed. He also talks about where the company and industry are headed.

This was a Skype chat, so you’ll hear the odd network hiccup and scratchiness. But it is 99% solid sound.

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  1. Marc Clement says:

    Hello Dave,

    Just looking at your site and a few podcasts. Great work!

    I’m with a company called Skreens which just completed a Kickstarter focused on the Video Gaming and Streaming market. Turns out that many of those gamers and streamers have a day job, which brings me to you.

    Some of these guys explained the evolution of digital signage and claims the need for broadcast TV is lacking in most solutions. It turns out that for Skreens Digital signage is a natural fit and could be added almost as a turn key solution based on the setup/configuration of the system. We did have a quick trial with an In-venue marketing company based in Chicago which seemed very positive.

    Perhaps we can talk when you have time.

    I’m located Ottawa

    Best Regards

    Marc Clement
    Skreens Technologies

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