NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa., Jan. 7, 2020 — EMC Outdoor welcomes Karen Czech Falout to join the agency’s team as Vice President of Out of Home Media Strategy. Based out of Chicago, Illinois, Falout will focus on cultivating strong relationships with clients in the Midwest and surrounding regions. […]
The people behind what grew into one of the biggest and highest profile digital OOH networks in the United States are now going through criminal proceedings, fighting charges from the Department of Justice that they led a $1 billion fraud scheme. […]
This is a clever use of creative that plays with the physical set-up of a transit shelter that has several equally spaced and aligned digital OOH screens. A campaign executed by JCDecaux for the DePaul University basketball program, running on what the media company its Loop Immersion Zone (LIZ) in downtown Chicago, sees a basketball flying through several screens in a synchronized video sequence. […]
This is kinda sorta digital signage, and kinda not, but an interesting take on blending building lighting with dynamic data feeds to create a constantly changing visual canvas. […]
Hanging out in the United Club, waiting for a flight back to my socialist paradise from O’Hare, after a couple of days with the Digital Signage Federation board and a great DSF mixer on Wednesday night. The mixer was at NEC’s terrific new digs in a suburban office park south of O’Hare. […]
The next Digital Signage Federation Meet and Greet mixer is set for two weeks from today in suburban Chicago, at NEC’s offices out in the ‘burbs. The event on Aug. […]
This is a look inside the new global HQ for McDonald’s, which has come in from the Chicago suburbs to an older building in the West Loop area that was previously home to Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios. The space looks beautiful, and has numerous experiential interactive displays put together by the Chicago design shop Leviathan. […]
What is touted as the world’s largest permanent projection mapping display is now running on the side of Chicago’s theMART, formerly known as the Merchandise Mart. […]
The lobby of the newly opened Walter Athletics Center at Northwestern University in Chicago has a giant vertical LED wall, as well as what looks like large tiled (and possibly interactive) flat-panel display walls to the sides. The facility, which opened August 1st, sits on the shores of Lake Michigan at the school’s Evanston campus. […]
I don’t really think of 16:9 as a lead identification tool for vendors, but here’s a pretty damn warm lead for integrators and direct view LED manufacturers: The AON Center is one of Chicago’s best-known office towers, with a position near Lake Michigan and overlooking the city’s vast Millennium Park, which attracts about 13 million people a year. […]
A whole bunch of startups have through the years, tried to crack the restaurant and bar business with a digital out of home advertising model that saw them put in screens and media players, hoping to claw back the costs, and more, through advertising. And a whole bunch of them – most of them, in fact, have failed. Advertising is hard. […]
While shopping at Chicago’s Magnificent Mile mall patrons can look to the ceiling and see a 190 foot long canopy of trees. Or, if they look at another moment, they may see a kaleidoscope of colours or a flock of local birds. That’s because the skylight is actually a high definition LED canvas with content created at 16k resolution. […]
I was in Chicago on Tuesday, one stop in a series over the next few weeks, doing an industry overview talk to end-users for Samsung’s display team. The company has a road show going, called the Resolution Tour and I’m the outside speaker for the days., talking about stuff like data-driven signage. Next one is next Tuesday in Silicon Valley. […]
It has been several weeks since I last did a Google news search on Outcome Health, and much continues to change with the once high-flying Chicago digital OOH media company. […]
The Aon Center, one of Chicago’s tallest and most recognizable buildings, has followed the lead of some other major commercial office properties in turning a feature in the lobby to a giant LED digital wall. Part of a recent renovation of its lobby and atrium included a pair of 42-foot-wide by 10-foot-tall direct view LED walls running custom-designed motion graphics and video content. […]
