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16:9: Why venue owners should think twice before taking ad sales for their DOOH network in-house

Guest Post: Brett Farley, NanoLumens Part 1: Think About It First … We’ve seen a trend where I work with large real estate ownership and management groups are either initiating their own advertising sales teams and networks, or having outsourced that function unsuccessfully, reclaiming ownership of that function and taking it back “in house. […]

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Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 5:25 PM

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Projects: National Sept. 11 Museum Upgrades Digital Signage With BrightSign’s 4K Tech

The National September 11 Memorial & Museum in lower Manhattan recently overhauled its digital signage infrastructure, adding in a stack of BrightSign players. The little purple boxes now power about a third of the museum’s digital signage set-up, feeding informational and interactive content to roughy 30 displays located throughout all seven floors of the subterranean museum. […]

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Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 6:36 AM

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Quiet Posting Week Ahead

I have some posts already scheduled to run, but this will likely be a quiet week for posting. I’m on the other side the planet for InfoComm China – a speaking gig – and not totally sure how much time I will have, or how easy or hard it will be, to post content. I gather Gmail and Twitter are blocked in China, so we’ll see about managing WordPress sites. […]

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Sun, Apr 9, 2017 at 2:34 PM

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16:9: How To Impress Your Audience With An Interactive Video Wall

Guest Post: Tim Griffin, Userful  Tim Griffin Video walls are everywhere and companies are looking for creative ways to use them.  Gone are the days of slapping together a grid of a few displays and playing content around them.  Customers are looking for artistic layouts, interactive content, dynamic content switching, immersive experiences, and more. […]

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Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:52 AM

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Uber Open Sources Its Data Visualization Framework

Via TechCrunch If your company is looking into data visualization, and has developers eager to have a run at it, here’s a pretty sophisticated open source development framework that Uber – yeah, that Uber – has made available. […]

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Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 12:42 AM

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16:9: Going From Chalkboards To Digital Signs Saves Bar 180-Plus Labor Hours A Year

A little bar and restaurant down the highway from me in Stratford, Ontario has worked out that putting in digital signage displays has saved them 182 hours in labor costs annually. Until a big reno in 2013, Bentley’s Bar, Inn & Restaurant did their daily menu specials, beer boards and martini boards all by hand – chalking it all in on blackboards. […]

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Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 12:09 AM

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16:9: DSE May Be Over But The Trade Show And Conference Season Is Anything But …

Digital Signage Expo is over but trade show and conference season is anything but over. There are many events in the coming three months that touch or focus on digital signage, among them: InfoComm China – There’s a track on digital signage at the event next week in Beijing. I know because I am speaking at it, talking about data-driven content. […]

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Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 1:20 PM

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Projects: Swedish Payments Company Visualizes Business In Real Time

I’m not seeing as much data visualization as I might have expected by now on large video walls – given how great dataviz creative can solve the dual problems of keeping content fresh while also controlling content budgets. But here’s a great example of dataviz in action in the lobby of Stockholm-based online payment company Klarna. […]

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Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 8:56 AM

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16:9: Louisiana Wellness Center Spans 12K Video Across Three Walls

The new Education Center at the Wellness Center of Thibodaux Regional, in Thibodaux, Louisiana, greets visitors with a 17-minute video that showcases the native beauty of Louisiana across three 4K video walls. The multi-screen video experience developed by VisionQuest Design & Production of Atlanta features nature scenes, landmarks, plantations, and the Bayou, among other local places. […]

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Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 7:41 AM

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Samsung Appoints BetaDMS As Authorised Large Format Display UK Distributor

Samsung has appointed Beta Digital Media Solutions (BetaDMS) – part of Beta Distribution, an independently owned IT distributor in the UK – as its distributor partner for its large format displays (LFDs) range with additional services that include in-house content creation, delivery and management. […]

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Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 6:57 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jerome Moeri, CEO of Navori

I’ve known Jerome Moeri, the CEO of Navori, for more than a decade, but we’ve never had much of a chance to have a good long chat. That changed at ISE a few weeks ago, when we slotted half an hour to talk about how the Swiss software company got started and where it is going. Jerome’s a soft-spoken guy, but if you lean in to listen, the story is quite interesting. […]

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Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 12:11 AM

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16:9: TouchTunes, PlayNetwork Announce Merger Intentions

The digital jukebox company TouchTunes and retail music and entertainment provider PlayNetwork have announced a definitive agreement to merge their businesses. “This agreement represents a major step forward in our global growth plan,” says Ross Honey, TouchTunes’ President and CEO. […]

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Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 11:26 PM

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16:9: HTML5 And 4K Taking Interactive Digital Signage to New Heights

Guest Post: John Wang, IAdea As touch-enabled large displays become more affordable, we find a quick rise of interactive digital signage everywhere. John Wang With the touch of a finger, wayfinding screens take you to your destination with the shortest route. […]

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Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 10:35 AM

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BeeBoard Introduces Publisher And Viewer For “Social” Digital Signage

A Boston start-up has quietly launched BeeBoard, what it describes as a social digital signage application that makes iOS tablets into a contemporary version of corkboards in homes and offices. The BeeBoard Publisher (iPhone) and BeeBoard Viewer (iPad) are free from the Apple app store.  BeeBoard is aimed at both the residential and commercial markets. […]

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Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 9:50 AM

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Reflect Adds AdLogic In-House Retail Ad Planning Platform

One of the slightly curious things I learned last week at DSE was Reflect – which I totally think of as a retail-centric digital signage CMS – introducing an advertising platform. My first reaction was: “Huh?” Between Ayuda and BroadSign, and a handful of others out there, that turf is well-covered. […]

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Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 8:59 AM

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