Quest Media

What Quest Media does

Quest Media is a Montreal-headquartered SaaS company, founded in 2009 as CC&Co and rebranded in 2013, that operates a cloud-based interactive digital signage platform with biometric audience analytics. The core product, the Quest Platform, unifies content management, social media aggregation, and multi-touchpoint digital signage control across cloud-managed hardware. The platform is complemented by a Biometrics Module (computer-vision-based detection of gender, age, ethnicity, and seven emotions to adapt content in real time) and a Social Management Module (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram aggregation with smart filtering and moderation). Quest Media also sells its own hardware line, including 84"/98" 4K interactive kiosks, interactive screens, table screens, and slim poster displays, and offers professional services for strategic planning, creative development, community management, and deployment.

The company serves enterprise customers across eight verticals — retail, education, healthcare, events and tradeshows, smart cities, venues, corporate offices, and advertising — with named customers including Bell, Desjardins, Ville de Montreal, Ritz Carlton, Infiniti, AOL, Keurig, Telus, C2MTL, and Yellow Pages. Notable event deployments include Igloofest (192M potential impressions), the Bell activation at the Rolling Stones concert at FEQ, and the ISeeMTL urban gathering (805M+ potential impressions). The platform integrates external data sources including Uber, Lyft, Salesforce, and live news, weather, transit, and stock feeds.

Quest Media generates revenue through SaaS subscriptions, hardware sales, and professional services, with enterprise custom pricing on annual billing terms. The company maintains a small team (1-10 employees), operates from offices in Montreal and New York, and is described as bootstrapped with no institutional funding disclosed. Go-to-market combines enterprise field sales, event-driven activations as showcase deployments, and product-led self-serve engagement through demo and contact CTAs.

Name

Quest Media

Legal name

Quest Media

Website

https://quest.media

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Quest Media is a Montreal-based SaaS company providing a cloud-based digital signage platform with biometric audience analytics and social media aggregation, serving enterprise customers across retail, events, healthcare, venues, smart cities, education, corporate, and advertising sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Digital Signage Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (513210), Software Publishers (5132), Advertising Agencies (541810), Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services (5418)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Advertising (7310), Services-Advertising Agencies (7311)

akta.pro primary industry

Topic/Interest-Based Content Discovery Apps (MPACAKAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Enterprise/Creator Video Hosting & OTT SaaS Platforms (MPACAAAL), PR, Reputation Management & Earned Media Platforms (BPAMALAO)

Keywords

• Interactive digital signage
• Biometric audience recognition
• Social media aggregation
• Cloud-based signage platform
• User-generated content displays

Headquarters

HQ city

Montréal

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. SaaS Platform Subscription: Cloud-based platform subscription for digital signage management, content aggregation, and analytics. Customers pay recurring fees to access the Quest platform for managing touchpoints and displays.
2. Interactive Hardware Sales: Sale of interactive display hardware including large format LCD displays, interactive kiosks (84" and 98"), interactive screens, and slim poster screens with commercial-grade features and 4K image clarity.
3. Professional Services: Strategic planning, creative development, community management, and deployment/project management services to help clients maximize impact of digital signage investments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Quest Media operates a cloud-based SaaS platform for interactive digital signage that aggregates real-time social media content and adapts displayed content based on biometric audience analysis (crowd and emotions recognition). The platform enables enterprises to manage hundreds of displays from any device, integrating data from social networks, third-party APIs, and live feeds to deliver contextual experiences in retail, events, healthcare, venues, and smart city environments. Quest also sells proprietary interactive hardware (kiosks, screens, poster displays) and provides professional services including strategic planning, creative development, community management, and deployment.

Product overview

Quest Media is a SaaS company offering an interactive digital signage platform that transforms physical environments into intelligent, data-driven display experiences. The core product is the Quest Platform, a cloud-based content management system that unifies real-time social media aggregation, biometric audience analytics, and multi-touchpoint digital signage management. The platform is complemented by two key modules: the Biometrics Module (crowd and emotions recognition for automatic content adaptation) and the Social Management Module (social media aggregation and moderation). Quest Media also offers a hardware product line including Interactive Kiosks (84" and 98" multi-touch 4K displays), Interactive Screens, Interactive Table Screens, and Slim Poster Screens. The company provides supporting services including Strategic Planning, Creative Development, Community Management, and Deployment/Project Management, enabling end-to-end solutions for retail, events, venues, corporate, education, healthcare, advertising, and smart city environments.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Quest Platform Cloud-based SaaS platform for interactive digital signage and real-time content management. Unifies content monitoring, touchpoint management, and interactions management, enabling organizations to display dynamic content that adapts to audience demographics and context in real-time.
• Interactive Kiosk Large-format LCD displays in 84" and 98" sizes featuring multi-touch capability with 4K image clarity. Designed for collaborative and annotation use cases with enterprise-level features suitable for digital signage applications.
• Interactive Screen Professional large-format LCD displays with commercial-grade features and superior visual performance. Designed for demanding digital signage applications across retail, corporate, venue, and event environments.
• Interactive Table Screen
• Slim Poster Screen Ultra-slim 1.7" depth full HD LCD display with high brightness, DisplayPort and HDMI connectivity, and Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) slot. Industrial-strength digital signage for various applications.
• Strategic Planning Services
• Creative Development Services
• Community Management Services
• Deployment Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 6x increase in social media posts compared to previous year at Bell/FEQ activation
• +4 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration6 records

AI capability8 records

Feature6 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Vistar Media: Programmatic DOOH ad-serving and content management platform connecting advertisers with digital signage networks. Adjacent peer to Quest given the shared DOOH and audience-contextual advertising angle, though focused on media-owner networks and programmatic rather than brand-owned activations.
• Four Winds Interactive (FWI): Enterprise digital signage and visual communications platform with strong presence in corporate communications, healthcare, and higher education. Overlaps directly with Quest's corporate, healthcare, and education verticals at much larger scale.
• Scala (by STRATACACHE): Enterprise digital signage and customer experience platform serving retail, QSR, and venues globally. Highly comparable to Quest's retail/venue signage play, with a much larger enterprise footprint and broader hardware-software-services portfolio.

Direct peers

• Spectrio: Customer experience and digital signage platform combining on-hold messaging, in-store music, and visual displays. Overlaps with Quest on multi-touchpoint in-store media and content services for retail and enterprise customers.
• Reflect Systems: Digital signage and in-store media network operator with experience-based activations and analytics for retailers and brands. Closely comparable to Quest on experience-driven retail signage, audience analytics, and managed services.
• Broadsign: Provider of a DOOH (digital out-of-home) signage SaaS platform used by media owners and brands to manage large networks of screens. Comparable to Quest on the cloud-managed digital signage and content-distribution core, though focused on media-owner networks rather than brand-driven experiential activations.
• ScreenCloud: Cloud-based digital signage SaaS focused on making signage management simple for businesses across retail, corporate, and education. Closely comparable to Quest on SaaS-led digital signage distribution model, though without the biometrics and UGC aggregation layer.
• Yodeck: Cloud-based digital signage platform with bundled screen hardware targeting small and mid-market customers. Comparable to Quest on the SaaS + turnkey hardware model, with a simpler feature set and no biometric or social-aggregation capabilities.
• Mvix: Digital signage solutions provider offering cloud CMS, media players, and content services for enterprise and SMBs. Similar SaaS + hardware + services mix to Quest, primarily serving corporate, healthcare, and retail communications use cases.

Emerging players

• Wovenmedia (formerly Tunity): Content distribution and digital signage platform focused on integrating video, social, and UGC into physical displays. Comparable to Quest's social-media aggregation and UGC-driven signage approach, primarily in retail and venue environments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/questmedias
• Facebookfacebook.com/questology.co
• Instagraminstagram.com/quest0logy

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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