Infographic: The Growth of Digital Signage

Interactive Displays and televisions are popping up everywhere, from storefront windows to kiosk displays.  The ability to show animated graphics, and maybe even add in a bit of interactivity with face-tracking, AR interfaces, or simple touchscreens, all add an extra level to the experience making it more interesting and more likely to remain in a consumers memory at that critical moment.  However, you may not realize just how big of an industry it is: It hit $2.9Billion back in 2009, and has been growing a steady 20% every year since.

Check out the numbers in this new infographic below.

Via: Media Signage

This story written by Randall Hand

Randall Hand is a computer graphics programmer and news junky that's been working in the field for the last 15 years. He's responsible for visualizations generated on some of the most powerful supercomputers in the world, ytnef, mullion support in ParaView, and VizWorld.com.