This is what looks to be a very impressive integration of big digital into a shopping mall environment, at a new development in Madrid, Spain. Plaza Rio 2 is a 40,000 sq. meter retail and leisure development along a riverfront. […]
This is the stunning new MORI Building Digital Art Museum in Tokyo, a 100,000 sq. ft. digital space that is entirely projection-mapped and hooked to motion sensors. […]
The nine-year-old Digital Signage Awards is stepping up its game for 2019, on the heels of 2018 awards that had, for the first time, a physical event. The 2018 awards were held during ISE, immediately after Invidis’ Digital Signage Summit. The 2019 event will again be held during ISE, but this time at a lovely old building in central Amsterdam. […]
Philly-based pro AV distributor Almo Professional A/V has acquired “certain assets” of Insteo, the Long Beach, CA content and creative shop. Almo has been tight with Insteo and its CEO/Founder Jim Nista for several years now, and the deal formalizes an arrangement that makes Almo capable of offering what can be lucrative digital signage content services through its partner channel. […]
A nine-gate, $200 million addition to Charlotte Douglas Airport, in North Carolina, opens tomorrow morning, with a main feature being some 2,000 sq. ft. of visualized data on several vast fine-pitch LED video walls. […]
Brad Parler of UK-based CMS firm ScreenCloud has completed a nice three-part video series on user-generated content for digital signage. Houston-based Parler, you may recall, joined ScreenCloud earlier this year, having built up a name doing very innovative corporate communications content for his old masters, blinds.com. […]
Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix If you’re going to have digital signage, you need a content strategy. If you don’t have something on screens at all times to draw attention and interest viewers, they’ll start tuning out. That can seem like a daunting task – collecting, creating and designing digital signage messages every day. […]
It’s rare when one can review a piece of affecting cinema that’s actually relevant to his/her job, and that infrequent occasion must be seized whenever opportunity knocks. That said, I’m more than happy to recommend Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, the latest documentary experience from controversial Bavarian filmmaker Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Into the Inferno). […]
This is the latest digital art piece running at the busy Fulton Center Transportation Hub in Lower Manhattan. Commissioned by the MTA’s Arts & Design department, Skyyys is a video installation developed by interdisciplinary artist Dave Greber of Philadelphia. The idea behind Skyyys is playfully mimicking the constant stream of visual information that we all see daily. […]
This is a building in Sao Paulo, Brazil with a low-rez LED light facade, with content put together by the Istanbul, Turkey HQ’d creative shop Ouchhh. I like what they did, but the explanation/description is one of those art gallery “Ummm-OK-yeah-yeah-I-see” narratives that is a little too out there for my bottom-feeder brain. […]
I am guilty of thinking about SignStix as yet another smallish digital signage CMS company scratching out a living with low-cost subscriptions and equally low-cost Android stick players. Based in Yorkshire, England, SignStix is a lot more than that. The company is indeed small, but doing some stuff that is a little bit mind-blowing. […]
All the Kia dealers in Russia have now rolled out a communications program, running off Scala, that reflects the Korean automaker’s new “Red Cube” brand identity. The new dealerships mix corporate red buildings, big glass windows and a new space identity involving car displays, points of attraction and functional zones. […]
Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix In order to truly use your organizational digital signage to its fullest potential, you need to have a system of continuous assessment in place – what works, what doesn’t and how can less effective messages be improved to get people to follow your calls-to-action? […]
Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea Corporation In Openness as a Competitive Advantage – Part I, published in March 2018, I shared an example of successfully winning a prominent financial institution client who needed an open platform solution. John Wang In that case, the in-house AV/IT crew wanted the ability to perform customizations for business objectives that were unique to the institution. […]
What are some of the ways to get employees involved in generating content (or content ideas) for a digital signage network? […]
