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16:9: What IoT Can Bring To Digital Signage In Retail

  GUEST POST: VIKTOR PETERSSON, SCREENLY & DOMINIQUE GUINARD, EVRYTHNG Many years ago, the recipe for a successful digital signage deployment was to put up a few screens in the store, and load them with an image slideshow (or video slide if you were on the forefront). Those days are long gone. Viktor Petersson Today, It takes a lot more to get the modern shopper’s attention. […]

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Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 11:04 PM

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Diversified Adds Electronic Security Skills, Business By Acquiring MCW

New Jersey-based integrator Diversified continues to roll up the technology solutions provider market in the U.S,, announcing today the acquisition of Ashburn, VA based MCW, an IT and AV systems integrator with particular strengths in electronic security and surveillance. The acquisition expands Diversified’s services into an established book of electronic security business across the U.S. […]

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Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:41 PM

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16:9: Kiwi Startup Brings Reverse Auction Fan App To Digital Signage

Via New Zealand Herald A New Zealand startup called DROPIT has an interesting sports engagement app designed to keep fans involved in games during breaks, instead of staring at their phones. […]

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Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 9:58 AM

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16:9: FanConnect Puts Digital Signage In Clubhouse And Stadium Suites

  As expected, the Mets are not the only pro sports team using digital signage behind the scenes at venues – with word from Charlotte, NC-based 10 Foot Wave sending me a note about work it does for MLB’s San Diego Padres. […]

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Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 9:33 AM

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16:9: Digital signage industry finally starts separating AI and ML from the marketing BS

It’s no surprise that digital signage solutions companies are starting to weave artificial intelligence into marketing descriptions of what they do and offer. But there is a giant distinction between companies that are developing and delivering AI capabilities, and those that are just using AI-based tools. […]

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Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 3:45 PM

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16:9: The Right Viewing Distance For LED Displays? There’s A (Free) App For That

Lots of good, helpful comments were provided on the post last week about recommended viewing distances for LED displays – including some mathematical formulas that just put me in rapid eye-blink mode. Way over my head. […]

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Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 11:34 AM

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MLB’s Mets Keep Players Informed With Clubhouse Digital Signage

Business communications is a very active vertical for digital signage, but I don’t think I’ve run into another project like the workplace communications being used at Citi Field for baseball’s New York Mets. […]

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Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 11:18 AM

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16:9: Outdoor LCD Takes A Licking And Keeps On Ticking

Stumbled across this video, posted by Atlanta-based LG-MRI, very directly showing how their outdoor street furniture displays are VERY vandal-resistant. I don’t think a company can ever say vandal-proofed because one should never-underestimate the determination of malicious people to take something out … if for nothing more than giggles. […]

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Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 2:02 AM

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16:9: The Rule Of Thumb For Direct-View LED Viewing Distances Is All Over The Place

So what is the real rule of thumb for viewing distances for direct view, fine pitch indoor LED displays? I thought it was 10 feet for every 1.0mm pitch, 15 for 1.5mm, 20 for 2.0mm and so on, and have certainly seen that used. But … Christie’s rule of thumb is 8 – meaning you multiply the pitch by 8 to get feet. […]

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Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 9:57 AM

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Captivate Marks 20 Years Of Riding Elevators

It’s likely Digital OOH and digital signage are seen by many as still-young industries, but there are companies that have been at it since the 1990s – including Captivate, which is marking 20 years of putting screens in elevators. […]

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Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 8:57 AM

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16:9 Projects Podcast: Digital Signage Across A Northern City

This isn’t a project that’s large in terms of pixels or screen counts; its impact is in its scale. The Canadian city of Sudbury is about a four-hour drive north of Toronto. With a population a little less than Jackson, Mississippi, it is the 7th largest municipality by area in Canada. […]

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Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:14 AM

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OUTFRONT Wins 50,000 Screen NYC Transit Ad Deal

OUTFRONT Media has won the advertising and communications concession agreements for the subways, commuter rail cars and buses, as well as billboards, owned by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority, otherwise known as the MTA. […]

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Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 2:57 PM

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Women’s Lifestyle Publisher Marie Claire Opens Tech-Filled Next Big Thing Pop-up Shop In NYC

In a slightly odd twist, the women’s fashion and beauty publisher Marie Claire has teamed up with Mastercard to open a pop-up shop in New York this fall, called  The Next Big Thing Concept Shop because it features what’s perceived as whiz-bang interactive retailing technology. […]

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Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 12:57 PM

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Las Vegas Start-Ups Partner On Blended Content, Ad Booking Offer

A pair of Las Vegas start-ups have synced up on a blended offer that sees a creative content shop making ad space available, via the partners online ad booking platform. […]

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Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 9:33 AM

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Ballantine’s Creates Immersive, Interactive Scotch Whisky Tasting Rooms

This is a couple of years old, but the first I’ve seen of it – an interactive whisky tasting experience that blends immersive 360 projections and interactive touch screens that use optical markers on things like the bottles. It was put together in London for Ballantine’s, a Scottish distiller focused on blended whisky. […]

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Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 8:43 AM

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