This is a series of new digital OOH displays in a office tower mall in the area around the rejuvenated World Trade Center complex in New York. The displays are all SNA (Sansi) LEDs – a mix of 2mm with remote power supplies and 6mm indoor modules that use outdoor-rated diodes (brighter) due to the location in an atrium. […]
Broadsign has pushed out a set of press releases and case studies highlighting a partnership with the demand side media platform Outmoove, and going into how live data is being used to fine-tune targeted digital OOH advertising. The most interesting of them is a campaign for Peugeot to promote its corporate minivans with SMBs and entrepreneurs. […]
Syracuse, NY-based PC systems builder Seneca has updated its popular HDN digital signage player, with predictably faster processors and nice little features like HDMI capture and HDCP pass-through. […]
Digital signage in schools at every level is not new, but Grand Rapids, Michigan-based solutions provider Freshwater Digital has developed a very different spin built around e-paper displays and school safety messaging. The company says it has been inundated with requests to find solutions to bolster school safety with tools inside classrooms. […]
Sharp has expanded the range of 24/7 commercial displays shipping with built-in system on chip media players and Android. The company has added 39.5-inch and 49.5-inch PN-M series displays that ship with built-in SoCs driven by Arm Cortex-A17 quad core processors, with 2 GB memory and 8 GB storage. The monitors are 50% brighter than the company’s PN-B series, are 24/7-rated. […]
One of the time-honored lines used in digital signage and digital out of home media is how the technology gets the right messages to the right people at the right times. […]
Display tech companies have not entirely given up on marketing narrow bezel LCDs for video walls, even though the prevailing wisdom is that fine pitch LED will take over as prices drop. There’s still a significant gap, though, unless you want to cross your fingers, toes and eyes and buy from a Shenzhen company with no support outside China and dodgy electronics and LED chips. […]
Microsoft has bankrolled and installed a series of high-profile product demo stations at eight Best Buys across Canada – presumably their primo, high-traffic stores. Each of the stores has the same installation of three kiosks, which use proximity sensors to activate marketing spots and adjust how the demo experiences operate based on the number of participants and their engagement time. […]
The European wing of the Digital Signage Federation – DSF Europe – has announced a new leadership set-up. Dirk Huelsermann is stepping back from his long-running position as chairman (since inception nine years ago as OVAB Europe) and the organization will now have a President as its head. […]
Sacramento-based mobility analytics solution provider Citilabs has added another interesting layer of mass data to a platform that shows the movement of people in the U.S. The company has added pedestrian data on top of traffic data. […]
A reader who travels a lot doing PROPER digital signage deployments pays attention to the varying quality of work done by others and spotted this in a bar at Charlotte, NC’s international airport. The screen is being held to the support column by a zip tie, and that’s it. An injury, and then a lawsuit, waiting to happen. […]
A reminder that the Digital Signage Federation is doing a Meet & Greet mixer in Austin, Texas in a couple of weeks – May 9th – and the organizations is hoping to pull a good crowd – notably in a tech-savvy start-up mecca. The event runs at the JW Marriott in downtown Austin, starting at 6. […]
More and more digital signage software companies are starting to catch on to how the cannabis industry presents a lot of opportunity for menu boards, promo displays and interactive product information stations. […]
Digital Signage Summit Europe has been a staple on the European digital signage scene for more than a decade, but things are changed up a little this year – with the two-day conference and micro trade show shifting to Frankfurt from Munich. The event is set for July 4th and 5th at the Frankfurt Sheraton Airport Hotel. […]
They don’t get a lot of attention, or make much if any marketing noise in the digital signage industry, but a Philly area company called SICOM is quietly building up a nice portfolio of digital display clients in the QSR space. SICOM has announced that Jamba Juice has selected it as the exclusive provider of digital menu boards and other marketing and promotion screens in the stores. […]
