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16:9: Beware of Fake Digital Signage Research: A Glimpse At The Crappy Digital Signage Market Analyses From A Junk Research Factory

Not a real place. It irritates the hell out of me when I see another member of the trade press giving any attention to companies that are peddling crap research about this industry – quoting market analysts from these research factories in Pune, India who are pulling numbers out of their collective butts to forecast industry growth and value. […]

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Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:07 PM

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A Boston College Turns Renovation Tarp On One Building Into Giant Digital Canvas

A college building on the corner of Boston Common has a big, white tarp covering the facade for the next 18 months – as it undergoes rears and renovations – so that very large piece of cloth has been turned into a massive projection canvas. […]

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Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:40 PM

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16:9: Fine Pitch LED Walls Used For Barneys’ Trippy Holiday Shop Windows

Barneys New York has developed a reputation for doing Christmas/Hanukkah season shop window displays that are well outside the holiday norm, and the retailer appears to have really gone for it this year with trippy windows developed by a pair of artist brothers. The 2017 holiday collaboration, Haas for the Holidays, was developed by Simon and Nikolai Haas. […]

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Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 9:11 AM

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AdMobilize’s New AI Capabilities Enable Ad Targeting By Vehicle Types

Miami-based AdMobilize has launched what it calls a Vehicle Recognition Engine – an AI-driven system that Digital OOH media planners could use to target outdoor advertising down to roadways that tend to see higher percentages of certain vehicle types. […]

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Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 9:04 AM

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16:9: Already Big ISE Gets Bigger For 2018

Integrated Systems Europe 2018 is now just a couple of months out, and from what I am reading and hearing the already huge show is even bigger – with more halls and more educational components. […]

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Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 8:13 AM

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16:9: Scala Starts Making Branded Digital Signage Media Players

Scala has started marketing a pair of branded, Windows 10-driven digital signage players as part of the company’s solution offer. […]

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Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:56 AM

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16:9: Video: LCD Shelf Label Strips At Gatwick Duty Free Drive 40%-50% Sales Lift

A post the other day referenced shelf-edge display strips in a set of chiller fridges in the U.S., with my covering comment that I’d seen that sort of thing in trade shows but wondered if there were real-world deployments. That one was using LED strips. This one – at World Duty Free in London’s Gatwick airport – uses LCD strips. […]

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Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:36 AM

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Why Digital Signage At Scale Needs Enterprise Features

Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix Trey Hicks Even though digital signage can be as simple as a laptop playing a PowerPoint slideshow hooked up to a display, it’s really designed to reach large audiences. Some organizations spread out over multiple floors, multiple buildings or even multiple geographical locations. […]

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Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 7:59 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Antoine Doublet, Deepsky

The last interview and meeting I took on my recent trip to Asia, getting a crash course on the technology and manufacturers doing fine pitch LED, was with Deepsky. The LED display startup is based in Hong Kong, but has deep French roots, as you’ll be able to pick up easily in the accent of Antoine Doublet. He’s the Head of Global Sales for the company, but an engineer to the core. […]

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Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:16 AM

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16:9: Budapest Charity Ad Combines OOH, DOOH and Contactless Payments

Digital and traditional OOH gets blended with contactless payment tech here in a nice charity campaign in Budapest, Hungary, running on a  JCDecaux-managed transit shelter. The Antal Zsuzsa Foundation partnered with JCDecaux Hungary to raise awareness of the difficulties that people with quadriplegia face daily, and to encourage passersby to make a donation. […]

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Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 10:01 AM

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16:9: Denver’s Airport Turns On 1,000-Foot Hybrid LED Light And DOOH Display Feature

If the video auto-plays, my apologies. I looked at the HTML and it didn’t give me any clues on how to shut that off! This is a new digital OOH advertising feature along the highway leading into Denver’s international airport, which is way, way, waaaaay east of the city. […]

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Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 9:07 AM

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3D-Printed Skyscraper Miniatures Drive Slick Interactive Touch-Table

This is a slick interactive application that uses 3D printed miniatures of landmark buildings in Singapore to explain the building technologies behind them, by placing the miniatures on a touchscreen that has built-in optical marker recognition capability. The project is for the Building and Construction Authority of Singapore. […]

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Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 7:56 AM

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16:9: Video: LED Shelf-Edge Displays In Grocery Dairy Fridges

I’ve seen a few companies at trade shows demo-ing LCD and LED ribbon displays intended for retail shelf edges, but can’t say I’ve seen any out in the real world. So it’s interesting to see this install – no word on whether this is a rollout or a one-shop demo – of a set of chiller fridges in a store equipped with LED shelf signs, marketing Arizona Dairy Farmers product. […]

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Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 3:45 PM

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16:9 Projects Podcast: The Story Behind That 13K LED Wall In Netflix’s HQ Lobby

Imagine, while sitting in the lobby waiting for your next meeting, three walls around you change,  placing you in a cocaine manufacturing camp in the jungles of Colombia. Minutes later, they change again to drop you into a prison cafeteria in upper New York state. […]

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Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 12:03 AM

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New Projection Mapping Festival Lighting Up Hong Kong Facades

The light and laser show on the skycrapers lining Hong Kong’s spectacular waterfront have a bit of visual competition right now – a video projection mapping event called the Lumieres Hong Kong festival. Running Nov. […]

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Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 9:10 AM

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