The companies out there that do LCD panel enclosures for advertising and retail generally do a great job with the important engineering bits like heating and cooling, and durability in the face of an ever abusive general public. Where they don’t tend to excel is design. They tend to look like squared-off steel slabs. […]
The devastating earthquake that shook Kathmandu and Nepal on Saturday is one of those major events that gets the world noticing and looking to help. So we’re spooling up DOOHgood, the ad hoc volunteer group that produces and distributes video PSAs for use on ad-based and private digital signage networks. […]
If your business is about competing for eyeballs and ad dollars in digital OOH, you’ll probably find piles of useful insights and data in this new report from Nielsen that looks at the video everywhere phenomenon – analyzing how people watch video in and outside the home, and breaking it down by regions. Not surprisingly, habits vary by regions (watching video on phones in N. […]
New York’s MTA subway system is now big enough to merit measurement on Nielsen’s quarterly Place-Based Video Report, with 140 screens in 29 stations in view of some 1.4 million daily riders. The On The Go Travel Station network started getting rated as of Q4 2014, with the idea of establishing audience numbers to sell media. […]
Montreal’s BroadSign has announced an effort to enable philanthropic organizations to get public service announcements on digital OOH ad networks without investing a pile of time to make it happen. […]
It seems all that incredible digital in the LAX International Terminal – done by Moment Factory and Digital Kitchen – will have to share air time with content that pays the bills. JCDecaux has sold one of the first digital outdoor sponsorship campaigns on the digital clock tower in the post security area – marketing a Tiffany & Co. […]
Blue Bite is a NYC start-up that’s been hanging out around the edges of the digital signage and digital OOH sectors for a few years – marketing the capability and know-how to bridge smartphones and screens with tech like QR codes, SMS and NFC tags. […]
One of the larger digital OOH networks on the planet, Montreal’s TouchTunes Interactive Networks, has been acquired by a private investment firm, Searchlight Capital. TouchTunes is mostly known as a digital jukebox company, and has units plugged in at more than 71,000 bars and restaurants across North America and Europe. […]
Putting screens in big things that roll and bump and jolt is a substantial technical challenge – the problems ranging from too much vibration, to dust and grime, to the inquisitive fingers and sharp objects of the general public. […]
This was clever. When a partial solar eclipse was visible last Friday over the UK, the OOH agencies Talon and Grand Visual ran two hours of creative matching the trajectory of the event, but using an Oreo cookie to take the place of the moon. “We often talk about how data can improve the targeting of OOH campaigns,” Richard Simkins, Innovations Director at Talon, explained. […]
The Minneapolis Convention Center now markets to visitors using a pair of massive 5mm pixel pitch LED NanoLumens that curve around bulkheads at the facility. Installed late last fall, the NanoCurve displays cover an area 5 feet high by 90 feet wide. They were put in by Minneapolis-based Tierney Brothers Integration. […]
US shopping mall operator Westfield put a back to back bank of big-ass LCD touch displays in one of its big malls, Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey, about a year ago. I missed the press and only stumbled across the set-up when it was written up as part of a piece in Ad Age the other day about evolving malls and technology. […]
Guest Post: Ryan Gushue, ENPLUG How perfect of a match are digital signage and social media? Moving on from the outdated SMS text message integration, social media provides for a more personal, customizable way to get viewers involved through your display. […]
If you have been around this business for a while, particularly on the Digital OOH side, you’ve probably bumped into Dan Levi. He was, until recently, working with one of oldest and biggest Digital OOH networks, Captivate. […]
GUEST POST: DAVID WEINFELD This week marks my return to the east coast from the Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas. Before jumping into my thoughts on the entire show, I wanted to offer my thoughts and feedback on the DOOH Strategy Summit. The pre-show event offered unique insights from media professionals and network owners. […]
