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Detroit Metro Airport’s DutyFree Gets The LED Halo Effect

The big World Duty Free shop in the international terminal at Detroit’s main airport has added a set of displays aimed at energizing the store experience and driving sales and promotions. The showcase feature is a 3mm pitch LED halo ring hanging like a lighting fixture, the idea being the circular display is visible anywhere in the store. […]

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Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 1:15 PM

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16:9: Digital signage tech firm STRATACACHE Acquires Finnish Shopper Analytics Startup Walkbase

Chris Riegel at his King’s Landing offices. Dayton, OH-based STRATACACHE has fully acquired an interesting Finnish startup called Walkbase that generates in-store analytics on shopper characteristics and patterns. […]

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Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 8:40 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Laura Davis-Taylor, High Street

Laura Davis-Taylor is a really well-known and much-loved expert when it comes to how digital fits in retail. She was a consultant for many years, but more recently has worked for some very large agencies – dealing with equally large retail and brand accounts. Now she’s back doing the consulting thing, by her choice. […]

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Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:01 AM

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16:9: How To Maximize Audience Engagement With The Right Kinds Of Digital Signage Content

Guest Post: Debbie DeWitt, Visix The whole point of your digital signage is to get your audience to stop, pay attention and take whatever action your message asks them to. Debbie DeWitt How should you present the information – which type of content is right for each message? Should you use a still message, or one with motion? […]

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Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 4:40 PM

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16:9: DOOH Network Outcome Health Plans To Add 2,000 Jobs By 2022

Chicago-based Outcome Health – long known as Context Media – did a press thing in that city this morning, announcing plans to grow from 600 staffers to 2,600 in the next five years, and make room for that growth in a North State Street office tower with its own name on the front. […]

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Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 12:17 PM

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16:9: Sephora, Uniqlo Add Digitally-Rich Flagship Stores In Barcelona

Information is limited from official channels, but I have seen word here and there about a pair of digitally-rich flagship retail stores opening in Barcelona – for Sephora and Uniqlo. The Sephora concept store appears to have a long corridor leading to the cosmetics shop flanked by a series of tall, fine-pitch LED panels, and then stacked LCDs around the sales floor. […]

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Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 7:30 AM

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New Seneca Digital Signage Player Includes HDCP Compliant Video Support

Syracuse, NY-based Seneca has started marketing a digital signage player that has a built-in TV tuner and is HDCP compliant – meaning that network operators are on the right side of copyright laws if they build live TV into their programming. […]

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Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 12:48 PM

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16:9: Is Coca-Cola’s Big Robotic Billboard In Times Square Mechanical Overkill For Visual Effects?

The big three-dimensional robotic billboard that Coca-Cola bankrolled and switched on this summer in New York’s Times Square has generated lots of attention, and led to an interesting debate about whether it’s a brilliant showcase of attention-grabbing technology, or mechanical overkill for effects that could largely be created inside the content. […]

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Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 11:03 AM

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16:9: Digital Screens Replace Paper Tags At Cafe Food Stations

Haven’t seen this before … displays fixed above the food guards that you’ll find in cafeterias and buffets all over the place. New partnership between Denver-based school menu-maker Nutrislice and BSI Industries, who I can’t quite sort out from a bunch of BSIs that come up on Google. […]

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Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 2:01 PM

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16:9: Keywest Technology Debuts Swiss Army Knife Media Player

Software and solutions companies are always pushing out news of platform updates, but it’s not that often I see one of these companies talking about new hardware they’ve put together. […]

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Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 1:21 PM

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LED Tunnel Creates Immersive Experience For MLB All-Star Fans

This is a nice temporary set-up using LED displays to create a tunnel effect for a FanFest indoor theme park during the annual Major League Baseball All-Star Game festivities, held this year in Miami. […]

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Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 8:31 AM

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Public And Retail Digital Experience – Play The Long View For Best ROI

Guest Post: Jeff Doud, MaxMedia Today’s consumers expect an experience. They don’t want to be sold stuff. Instead we should offer relevant lifestyle with usable chunks of information to provide context. […]

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Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 8:06 AM

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NanoLumens’ Cope Honored As Atlanta’s Veteran Entrepreneur Of Year

Congratulations to NanoLumens founder and CEO Rick Cope, who was named 2017 Veteran Entrepreneur of the Year this morning by the Atlanta Business Chronicle, in partnership with the Metro Atlanta Chamber. Cope was one of six business leaders cited across different categories, at an awards ceremony held at the Georgia Aquarium. […]

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Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 3:06 PM

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16:9: NEC Beefs Up Open Pluggable PC Line-Up For Digital Signage Displays, Projectors

NEC Display Solutions has beefed up its line of Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) compliant computers that plug into the backs of displays and offer a Windows-based alternative to the increasing numbers of smart system on chip displays being sold in the digital signage market. The OPS computers now all include 64-bit Windows 10 Pro and get as powerful as Intel i7 Skylake Quad Cores. […]

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Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 12:58 PM

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Canadian Vacations Provider Sunwing Opens Digitally-Rich Pop-Up Store

Canadian vacation travel company Sunwing has opened a pop-up store in one of Canada’s busiest and ritziest shopping malls, using big visuals and a lot of technology to get shoppers at Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall thinking about booking a flight to the tropics for when the snow flies. […]

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Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:48 PM

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