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How To Use Digital Signage To Engage Millennials In Your Workplace

Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix Millennials currently make up a third of the workforce, and that percentage will only increase in the coming years (by 2025 it’s estimated they will account for 75% of employees). Who are they, what do they want, what do they expect and how can you get the most out of them? These are questions every organization should be actively finding the answers to. […]

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Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 8:06 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Peter Cherna, Scala

This week we are doing a little wayback thing, talking to someone who has been working specifically at digital signage for almost 25 years, for a company that’s been at it for 30. One of the events that’s part of of all the digital signage week things in New York next week is one that’s marking three decades in business for Scala, one of the best known brands in this industry. […]

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Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 12:05 AM

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Highway Billboard Color-Matches Paint Swatches To Surrounding Sky’s Color

This a couple of years old, but just stumbled on it. The Quebec DIY store Reno Depot did a Digital OOH campaign in Feb. 2015 in Quebec that used a sensor to match conditions and color to house-brand paint swatches available at the store. […]

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Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:02 AM

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16:9: Is Google’s New Android Management API A Big Deal For Digital Signage?

Google recently announced an Android Management API, designed for developers who want to integrate Android device and app management capabilities into their customer solutions, like digital signage. The API currently supports Android devices that are designed to perform a specific purpose use case, like playing out media. […]

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Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 9:42 AM

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16:9: Mastercard Touts AR Tech That Puts Virtual Digital Signs In Stores

This is a concept video from Mastercard and partners making the suggesting that department store shoppers can walk around and make shopping purchases with the help of digital signs that are only virtually there – via augmented reality. The concept is being demo’d at a payments trade show this week in Las Vegas by the credit card company. […]

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Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 9:20 AM

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How Video Walls Monitor Your Company’s Performance In Real Time

Guest Post: Tim Griffin, Userful In business today, tracking your company’s performance is vital to ensure its success. Organizations track online traffic, stock performance, social engagement, eCommerce, support tickets, as well as external information that executives need to be aware of to help them make better business decisions—e.g. […]

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Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 8:59 AM

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16:9: Watch This Spectacular Custom Digital Signage Creative For A Korean Department Store Group

South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Corporation engaged Montreal’s Moment Factory to create custom creative for the 6-storey LED centrepiece of a new shopping and entertainment complex in Daegu, south of Seoul. […]

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Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 8:33 AM

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16:9: See This Suburban Seoul Mall’s Vast Investment In Indoor LED Digital Signage And Content

This is a new shopping mall in South Korea, in the suburbs of megacity Seoul. There is a massive digital display experience in the centre court area that includes a very tall LED monolith and curvy LED ribbons lining the mezzanine overlook. I can’t find much about the digital piece that’s in English, other than the content coming from Montreal’s Moment Factory. […]

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Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 8:15 AM

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16:9: NYC Digital Signage Startup Digital Social Retail Plans IPO

You don’t see a lot of IPOs being floated out there by digital signage companies, but that’s what NYC-based Digital Social Retail is taking the necessary steps with the SEC to do. […]

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Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:15 AM

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After Weinstein: Reinventing Workplace Communications to Encourage Appropriate Behaviour

Guest Post: Phyllis Zimbler Miller, Enplug The way we communicate in the workplace on the topic of appropriate behavior is clearly broken. Nothing shows this more clearly than the alleged sexual transgression charges against Harvey Weinstein, Bob Weinstein, and Roy Price. Phyllis Zimbler Miller Of course, companies have policies against sexual harassment in the workplace. […]

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Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 9:42 AM

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16:9: NanoLumens Quickly Goes 4-4 In Patent Infringement Lawsuits

There are undoubtedly many, many times when C-suite people get the bill in from the company law firm, and wonder what the hell all those zeroes after a $ sign amounted to – but maybe not around Atlanta-based  NanoLumens, which appears to have very gone 4 for 4 in its legal actions this summer with LED display competitors. […]

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Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 9:27 AM

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16:9: Audi’s Digital OOH Campaign In UK Matches Billboard Ads To Road Conditions

This is an interesting twist on using APIs and public data to serve up contextually relevant digital OOH ads on roadside displays – matching conditions to the assistive technology an automaker offers to deal with those conditions. […]

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Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 8:36 AM

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London Creative Shop Opens Deep Black, OLED-Filled Showroom

This the new showroom of the London creative studio Projection Artworks, which includes several LG OLED displays. There’s nothing all that exciting about companies have showrooms, but I note this because of the smart decision to place the OLEDs on a piano black wall. […]

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Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 8:18 AM

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Digital Signage Awards Entry Deadline is Oct. 31st

A reminder that entries close at the end of the month for the Digital Signage Awards, a global contest that sifts through and singles out the best work across a bunch of varied categories. Sixteen:Nine is media sponsor/partner in the awards, which are organized and managed by a UK company. […]

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Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:58 AM

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16:9: Grocer Uses Dynamic Data To Manage Mass Content Updates On Digital Signage Network

Here’s a simple but effective example of using data to handle what would otherwise by a nightmare job is done by one person running a digital signage network. The Quebec supermarket chain IGA is running a daily contest at its roughly 300 stores that gives away prizes and announces the winner on screens inside the stores, with the winners local to each store. […]

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Wed, Oct 18, 2017 at 10:31 AM

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