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DSE 2016 Apex Award Winners List

Here are the winners of the Digital Signage Expo  APEX Awards for great work in digital signage. […]

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Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 10:28 AM

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Looking For Data Visualization Stories

I have this theory that visualized data is the next big thing in digital signage, and have been blabbering away about that for a couple of years now. Screens that display highly visual animations, charting and even just well-presented numbers deal very efficiently with the whole feeding the content beast dilemma. […]

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Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 2:02 PM

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DSE 2016 Booth Field Guide: Wovenmedia

Wovenmedia, Booth 1240 John Polachek, VP Marketing & Creative at Wovenmedia, explains here what visitors can expect to see this year at DSE if they come by the San Francisco company’s booth. Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? […]

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Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:59 PM

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Projects: Abstract LCD Tree At Children’s Museum of Denver

You’ve got to like projects that see the designers going completely off the normal playbook on a signature digital display feature for a building. Instead of doing a conventional 3 by 10 video wall, the Children’s Museum of Denver took those 30 displays and did a 20-foot tall, abstract copper and steel tree-like structure made up of Planar LED-lit LCDs that form a canopy. […]

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Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 12:02 PM

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DSE 2016 Booth Field Guide: Studio Squared

Studio Squared, Booth C14 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Companies need content, and Studio Squared is a finely tuned, content-creating engine. I’d venture to say we create more digital content than any other company in America. […]

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Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 11:34 AM

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Projects: Airport Kiosks Help Travelers Learn CPR Skills To BeeGees Tune

This is one of the more unusual, and clever stabs at a public information kiosk I’ve seen come on the market – a CPR skill-testing device that gets airport travellers pushing on a torso to the beat of Stayin’ Alive. The American Heart Association‘s Hands-Only CPR campaign features interactive training kiosks at six major US airports. […]

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Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:20 AM

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Luxury Auto Display Wins Planar’s OLED Clear Concept Prize

At last fall’s SEGD xlab event in New York, Jennifer Davis from Planar announced a contest aimed at generating great concept uses for transparent OLED screens – technology Planar had just started showing off. A few months later, Planar announced today the winner of the Clear Concept Award – Fivestone Studios, a creative services agency based in Nashville, Tenn. […]

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Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 2:55 PM

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Employee Engagement Issues Solved With Digital Signage

GUEST POST: Sean Matthews, Visix The term “employee engagement” has been a hot topic ever since a 2012 Gallup study showed that companies with highly involved employees significantly outperform those who don’t. This confirmed with hard data something managers had long suspected – people work harder when they feel like they are part of something, and like where they are. […]

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Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 7:30 AM

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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. […]

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Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 1:18 PM

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Signage-Focused Crown Content Creative Shop Launches

Michael Tutton is well known in Toronto-area digital signage circles as the guy who, for many, many years, ran the digital display networks for Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation’s many gambling and hospitality properties. He left OLG late last year, recharged a little in the tropics, and has now launched his own signage-focused creative shop, called Crown Content. […]

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Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 9:57 AM

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Projects: Twisting LED Sculpture Makes Waves In Houston Skyscraper

Just stumbled across this now three-year-old project in a Houston, Texas office tower. […]

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Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 8:04 AM

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16:9: Five HTML5 Options For Building DOOH Creative

For two decades, Adobe Flash was the Holy Grail for designers creating motion graphics for the web and digital signage. Recently, however, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) made HTML5 the new industry standard for digital creative. […]

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Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 9:54 AM

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16:9: Media Companies Investing In An Increasingly 9:16 World

If you have been around digital signage for a few years, you know about the struggles sign networks that were based around portrait mode had in finding and using content. Just about everything out there was landscape, and precious little was made in their chosen 9:16 format. […]

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Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 3:06 PM

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16:9: Cues And Clues To Tuning Your Digital Signage Content To Your Core Audience

One of the first things a good digital signage consultant is going to ask a client is: “Who is your audience?” That can sometimes be easily defined, or be really hard, when it comes to catch-alls like mass transport or shopping malls. […]

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Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:54 AM

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16:9: Viennese Digital OOH Screen Takes Donations For Christmas

A landmark Viennese church, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, is working with an Austrian outdoor media to generate donations through a digital screen set up in Stephansplatz, a public square. The media firm Gewista has set up a screen that takes 2 Euro donations, to be put towards ongoing renovations to the old church. […]

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Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 1:46 PM

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