PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — September has arrived. We are officially in the month of Pope Francis’ visit to Philadelphia and the city is gearing up for the big day with some big signage to get people excited. Four new billboards are set to appear in the area to welcome pilgrims and Pope Francis himself to the city. […]
Brad Parler is coming up from Houston, Texas in a couple of weeks to talk at DSrupted.com about better, more effective content. Here’s a sneak peek at what he’ll be talking about at the Sept. 16th event – a shorter version from an interactive conference he spoke at recently, down in Houston. […]
Moving Tactics, the South African digital signage solutions company, were employed to develop a unique installation to showcase in-store specials and promotions to passing customers. […]
So much has happened on the software and computing side of the digital signage business in recent years that I think we tend to overlook how much has also happened on the display side. When I got into this business 16 years ago LCD panels were small and crazily expensive, and the big flat panels were $10,000 40-inch plasma displays that weighed roughly as much as oil tankers. […]
The FogScreen “Ads in the Air” at Iso Omena mall in Espoo, Finland literally floats in the air for increased customer immersion. […]
This is a big 3×3 touch interactive video wall designed exclusively for Brown-Forman, makers of Jack Daniels and all kinds of other booze, at its Louisville, Kentucky headquarters. An interactive bottle carousel showcases all the liquor brands, and includes directional audio for what’s described as a multi-sensory experience. […]
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In the world of technology, while the pace of innovation always accelerates, true disruption simply does not come along every day. What does come along nearly every day are overblown press releases, planted advertorials disguised as editorials, fake testimonials and social media hype proclaiming the next BIG THING. […]
The Microsoft Retail Experience Center lies within the company's sprawling Redmond, Wash., headquarters. A portion of the warehouse-sized building is devoted to demonstrating how merchants can increase consumer engagement—and ultimately sales—by employing cloud services and converting the iPhone and other smartphones from devices that merchants fear into virtual sales staff. […]
Video analytics tools have been around for many years now – and the key players have changed through the years, with the exception of France’s Quividi, which has been a constant. An Irish company called Instillo has announced its own video analytics platform – Instillo Audience, and changed the proposition around quite a bit in the process. […]
The guided tour through Munich city centre on 10 September 2015 – the first day of OVAB Digital Signage Summit Europe – will showcase a series of exciting digital signage projects. This will include Munich Central Station, which has a redesigned basement and some excellent examples of recent digital signage installations. […]
By Daniel Newman. This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. […]
Dayparting is as old as radio and as modern as social media — and it's a key to effective digital signage as well. Whether you're scheduling radio ads for "morning drive time," time-sensitive Facebook posts or breakfast menus on digital menu boards, changing your message based on the time of day is a simple but crucial element of any communications strategy. […]
Here’s a very nice, very different take on using LED boards along highways. Instead of endless ads for lawyers and auto dealers and casinos, this vertical LED totem that just lit up in Almaty, Kazakhstan runs traffic information. The 10 mm pixel pitch unit, installed by Billboard Video LED Engineering, is 7 meters high by two meters wide. […]
The product combines the functionality of a television with built-in management software for creating personalized promotional content to increase sales and improve customer loyalty and retention. […]
