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16:9: DSE 2016 Booth Field Guide: BroadSign

BroadSign, Booth 2510 Here’s what Stephanie Gutnik, Director of Marketing and Business Development at BroadSign, says about the Montreal company’s Digital Signage Expo plans for this year: Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths?  The BroadSign digital signage software platform has never been more front and center at a trade show than it is this year. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 2:51 PM

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16:9: 6 Tips and 20 Tools For Creating Effective Digital Signage Content

Guest Post: Irfan Khan, Skykit Imagine the absolute worst possible digital signage content. Let’s say it’s in Comic Sans. The type’s too small, and there’s a whole paragraph of text up there—in yellow text on a white background, naturally. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:18 PM

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Understanding the Technology at DSE: Software (DSConnection)

The series Understanding the Technology at DSE has, to this point, featured hardware – media players, displays and mounts. If we think about the hardware as a bus, now it’s time to look at what’s driving it ... Software. […]

digitalsignageconnection.com
Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:38 AM

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Digital ad signs at Twin Cities rail stations to bring in revenue (Finance-Commerce)

Digital advertising screens have been installed at nine of the busiest Blue line and Green line stations, an effort to bring in new revenue for light rail operations in the metro area. New 55-inch digital advertising signs have been installed at nine stations along the Green and Blue line Light Rail Transit routes, including five in downtown. […]

finance-commerce.com
Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 7:22 AM

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Election billboard deal approved by Detroit City Council (Detroit Free Press)

The Detroit City Council today approved an election billboard deal proposed weeks after Mayor Mike Duggan pulled back a previously approved no-bid contract for election billboards. The council approved two, one-year contracts with separate companies to put up billboards along surface streets and highways informing residents about upcoming elections, beginning with the March 8 primary. […]

freep.com
Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 7:15 AM

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8 near-future trends set to change OOH advertising, according to Posterscope (DSToday)

By Jeff Tan, VP of Strategy, Posterscope USA. The out-of-home industry is set to evolve more rapidly over the next 18 months. The oldest advertising format has seen significant changes; mobile convergence, developments in digital platforms and data sources are changing industry perception. […]

digitalsignagetoday.com
Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 12:09 AM

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AdWeek: New York’s citywide Wi-Fi funded by DOOH ad revenue offers advertisers flexibility

In many respects, LinkNYC is hard not to love. It is free of charge to the city's residents and visitors, CityBridge is splitting the ad revenue with the city, and those involved say the city stands to make $500 million off the screens over the 12 years of CityBridge's contract. […]

adweek.com
Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:49 PM

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OOH advertising is being transformed by digitization (Marketing Mag Australia)

While other traditional media struggle to adapt to the challenges of digital, outdoor is booming. Out-of-home (OOH) advertising is finding new ways to connect and engage with the public with digital screens, beacon and image recognition technology, social integration and real-time dynamic creative just some of the exciting opportunities. […]

marketingmag.com.au
Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:35 PM

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2016 OBIE Finalists Highlight Simplicity, Beauty in OOH

OAAA has announced the contenders for the 2016 OBIE Awards. Now in its 74th year, the OBIE Awards program is the oldest and one of the most prestigious shows in advertising, awarding creative excellence in the out of home (OOH) medium. The 108 campaigns nominated this year demonstrate the myriad ways that simplicity can be captured and expressed through the OOH medium. […]

Editorial
Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:29 PM

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HuffPost: Digital Billboards Get Tactical to Help Find Missing Children

By Neil Morris, Founder and CEO of Grand Visual. Sounds obvious, but the Digital Out of Home (DOOH) advertising medium is no longer just about digital "posters". […]

huffingtonpost.co.uk
Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:19 PM

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Retail Design Expo and Retail Digital Signage Expo 2016, March 9-10, Olympia, London, UK (Premier Construction News)

Retail Design Expo is Europe’s leading annual event for innovation and inspiration in retail design, marketing, visual merchandising, architecture and shopfitting from around the world. Following its hugely successful launch in March 2015, it is doubling in size for 2016. […]

premierconstructionnews.com
Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:12 PM

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Lithuania Post deploys nationwide digital signage network (Post and Parcel)

Lithuania Post’s PayPost has chosen Signagelive and Hansab UAB to provide a nationwide digital signage network. The system is based on the Samsung Smart Signage Platform (SSSP) and powered by Signagelive’s System on Chip (SoC) software. […]

postandparcel.info
Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:00 PM

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London Fashion Week to hit OOH screens across the UK (Fashion and Mash)

London Fashion Week will be screened on billboards across the UK in collaboration with Ocean Outdoor for the first time this season. The British Fashion Council will be showing LFW footage to over 35 million people, through 60 screens in Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle as well as around London. The content will run from February 15-23. […]

fashionandmash.com
Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 5:10 PM

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The Drum: Child Rescue Alert taps Stephen Fry for programmatic DOOH ads to help find missing kids

Missing People has rolled out programmatic digital out of home ads featuring Stephen Fry to help hunt down missing children. The charity is leveraging travel and location data to programmatically use space in digital spaces across the UK, urging people to sign up to the Child Rescue Alert service, which will inform them whenever a child goes missing in the area. […]

thedrum.com
Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 4:44 PM

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Ask the Board: How to Build Scalable and Innovative DOOH Campaigns (DSConnection)

Digital out-of-home provides size and scope as an amazing canvas on which to create and convey ideas that scale. What advice would you give to those developing and implementing scalable innovative creative campaigns? […]

digitalsignageconnection.com
Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 9:26 AM

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