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16:9: What The Digital Signage Industry Can Learn From Apple TV

Guest Post: Mark Hemphill, ScreenScape Savvy communicators could be increasing revenues by building dynamic media channels into every one of their business locations via digital signage, but a lot of them are held back by the cost and complexity associated with that technology. It’s still too expensive and complicated for the average business owner to want to take on. […]

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Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 8:05 AM

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Projects: 280 Foot Wide LED Wall Lights Up In World Trade Center’s New Mall

The retail component of the new World Trade Center in New York finally, formally, opens next week, and the 16 acre site will include some 5,000 square feet of LED. The signature installation is a 280-foot wide 4mm pixel pitch LED wall running along a concourse, driven by 12 sync’d HD outputs from players that will make for one very wide and long billboard. […]

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Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:05 AM

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Density Debuts New Way To Count, Report And Display Crowds And Lines

There’s a podcast episode up today about Density, a San Francisco start-up that has launched a new type of people-counting sensor I think has some interesting potential for the digital signage market. Density was launched by Apple alums and former founders of Y Combinator. […]

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Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 6:42 AM

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Digital Signage Goes To The Kitchen

One of the guys at Rise Vision is so steeped in the digital signage business he has a slick interactive display up and running in his kitchen. Mat Meiers, the company’s lead creative designer, designed a screen layout to display calendar events, grocery lists, to do lists and family photos in his Kansas City-area kitchen. […]

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Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 6:14 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Andrew Farah, Density

This week, Sixteen:Nine speaks with Andrew Farah, the CEO and one of the founders of Density, a San Francisco-area start-up that’s going at crowd tracking in a different way. […]

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Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 12:05 AM

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16:9: Orlando Airport Investing Big On Passenger-Facing Digital Signage

Orlando International Airport continues to invest heavily in digital displays to improve the look and experience. The Orlando Sentinel has a story up about a $146 million makeover underway, and targeted to be complete by late next year, that will include a band of tiled displays behind the ticket counters at the departures level. […]

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Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 7:54 AM

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How Local Businesses Can Use Digital Signage To Attract Pokémon Go Fans

Guest Post: Mark McDermott, ScreenCloud If you were ever a fan of Pokémon as a kid or teenager, you’ll know about Pokémon Go, a new app developed by Niantic. Pokémon Go creates an augmented reality experience (something virtual appearing in the real world), to allow you to chase Pokémon characters all over town, to lure them, capture them and train them for battle. […]

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Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 4:17 PM

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Two Keys To Creating Unforgettable Customer Experiences, In Any Physical Environment

Guest Post: Jeff Dumo, Array Interactive Jeff Dumo For the last seven years, my company has focused on creating digital experiences within physical environments to connect people and brands. In each case, custom content was powered by digital signage display systems, video walls, gestural systems, reactive and interactive installations, and other digital touch points. […]

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Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 1:30 PM

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Astral OOH’s Toronto Pearson Deal Means Canadian Airport Ad Dominance

Montreal-based Astral Out-of-home has won the ad concession for Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, and with that now has ad rights in Canada’s three busiest airports and largest markets. Astral’s airport media business, owned by the communications conglomerate Bell Media, already has Montreal and Vancouver, as well as Ottawa and Halifax. […]

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Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 8:21 AM

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And Now There Are Digital Signage Pokémon Templates

The whole Pokémon Go thing escapes me, but I’m guessing there are countless baby boomers who aren’t quite seeing the thrill of running around catching imaginary cartoon characters on a phone. But we’re not the market, and it’s clearly taken off among a younger crowd. […]

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Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:49 PM

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Digital Signage Gets Hosed Down

Whether this is better termed a kiosk than digital signage could be debated endlessly, but what’s more interesting here is how a company has figured out a way to make projected capacitive touchscreen technology to work reliably in the crazily harsh environment of a car wash. […]

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Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:23 PM

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ComQi Integrates Panasonic’s Light ID Smartphone Tech

Panasonic and ComQi have worked out a partnership to market technology that connects smartphones with digital signage displays, using encoded light signals embedded in the screens. […]

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Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:21 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Florian Rotberg, Invidis

This week I’m speaking with Florian Rotberg, the managing director at the Munich-based digital signage consulting and events firm Invidis. Florian talks about the background of his company, and his impressions of the global digital signage market. […]

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Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 12:01 AM

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Projects: NanoLumens’ 1.8 mm LED Supplants LCD Wall For DIRTT

There’s nothing about this installation that’s going to set hearts racing, but it’s a vivid example of how direct view LED is starting to supplant LCD when it comes to video walls. […]

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Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 10:14 AM

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Hackers Take Over Digital Signage, Audio At Vietnam Airports

When digital signage systems get hacked, the perpetrators tend to go to the 12-year-old psyches and they replaced marketing messages with naughty videos. […]

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Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 11:05 AM

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