Speciality display maker Volanti Displays, based just south of Silicon Valley, teamed up recently with a nearby luxe shopping mall – Westfield Valley Fair – on a very different digital window used to promote the Michael Kors fashion line. […]
There’s a bunch of little things that tend to get forgotten when you’re organizing an event in the fleeting moments between calls and the endless, endless stuff of a work week. […]
Ask anybody, in pretty much any big city, about the state of their traffic, and they’ll have a one word answer: “Horrible. […]
Here’s a nice social media-driven campaign for Coca-Cola, as planned and booked by Posterscope in NYC’s Times Square. People were encouraged by the billboard to tweet their name to a dedicated campaign hashtag, and then see a “story” about their name appear on a digital board. […]
Photo: Macstories The Apple-centric blog 9to5Mac is reporting that Apple’s impending store refresh will include a change in how it handles merchandising and product information. “With this Apple Store refresh next week,” the blog reports, “Apple will be pulling these aging iPad 2s from most of its stores. […]
Via Bloomberg A former Amazon exec’s startup is running a test in a Manhattan Beach, CA Macy’s that mashes up digital screens, mobile and some old-school warehouse ideas to rethink the shopping experience. […]
Guest Post: Tom Graczkowski, Saturn Digital Media The old saying about a picture being worth 1,000 words rings especially true when it comes to producing effective wayfinding. From a very young age, we learn to identify colourful shapes and symbols for things like bathrooms and safety signs. It’s an approach that’s essential to good wayfinding work. […]
I’ve long liked how the gas pump digital OOH guys have regularly tried to rethink content on their screens – going out and finding content that wasn’t just the old news, sports and weather feeds out there. They’ve tried a bunch of things, and now they’re trying very short form, very IN-YOUR-FACE movie reviews. […]
Dallas-based RMG Networks has released its latest quarterly financials, which suggest the company’s turnaround efforts are starting to make a difference and getting the corporate-focused signage software and solutions company closer to running in the black. […]
Via AD Age Those software and creative guys doggedly hanging on to Adobe Flash as its main motion graphics playback tool might want to pay attention to the point of view of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, which is making HTML5 the new standard for digital creative. […]
This is one of those devil in the details things, but it would at least appear there is a slick new way for software companies offering Android digital signage software platforms to add indoor mapping for malls, campuses and other busy, confusing places. A company called Here is offering up indoor mapping capability to Android developers. […]
Planar’s CEO is telling staff and customers that it is business as usual for the Portland, OR company in the wake of the announced acquisition by Chinese LED display manufacturer Leyard. Of course, executives tend to say that in the wake of M&A events, and often that isn’t the case. […]
I think AOPEN may have some challenges with the price-points for its new commercial Chromebox and Chromebase – they’re priced accordingly, but the market mostly equates Chromebox to sub-$200 devices. However, the Taiwan company does a very nice job with this explainer video showing the products, features and benefits and applicability. […]
Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation has for many years had a dedicated digital signage team – both tech and creative – running its screen networks across 19 slots and casino sites across the province. The team work with its longtime software vendor Capital Networks on a very different, very clever twist to casino messaging – a live prize draw focused around the screens. […]
The blending of LED and display technologies and companies continues. Specialty, high-end display panel maker Planar Systems has been acquired by the Chinese high-end indoor LED firm Leyard Optoelectronic Co., Ltd. The companies have entered into a definitive merger agreement, that would see a U.S. […]
