Signagelive Appoints JB&A as North American Distributor

Partnership focuses on creating cloud-based digital signage bundles for ProAV and Broadcast markets

May 22, 2012 – Chicago and San Rafael:

Signagelive, a global leader in cloud-powered digital signage solutions, today announced the appointment of Jeff Burgess and Associates (JB&A) as its preferred distributor for North America in the ProAv and Broadcast markets.  All Signagelive products are immediately available for current JB&A certified resellers at aggressive margins.

“JB&A is extremely happy to have Signagelive’s cloud-based digital signage solutions available for our resellers,” said Jeff Burgess, CEO of JB&A.  “Their transparent pricing model, support for multiple edge-devices and partnership with content partners is a perfect fit for our resellers.”

Signagelive is based out of the UK, with support, R&D and European sales operations headquartered an hour outside of London.  While official North American office operations only started this year, several high-profile accounts have used Signagelive for years, including the Saint Louis Rams, the San Francisco Giants, the Atlantic City Convention Center and many others.

“Though we sell software, we are first and foremost a service organization,” said Jason Cremins, CEO Signagelive.  “JB&A is the perfect partner because they understand that you have to build a successful channel in order to have a successful business.  That’s why we focus so hard on creating the best solutions for customers across verticals such as Education, Medical, Retail Corporate Communications, Hospitality and others: to serve the customer and position the reseller to be successful.”

Signagelive is an open platform that supports the most edge devices in the industry.  In addition to running on Windows PC’s, Signagelive natively supports BrightSign players, SMIL devices such as IAdea, Android and Apple tablets and desktop screen savers.

Said Raffi Vartian, GM, Americas, “Our approach is simple: relentlessly build the best product in the market, price it as competitively as possible, bundle hardware and content through distribution and relentlessly support the reseller and the end customer.  We want to remove the barriers for the customer to install digital signage and for the reseller to sell.”