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Atlanta’s High Street Collective Launches Living Retail Lab (And It Has A Bar!)

The retail innovation consultancy HighStreet Collective has launched what it calls a Living Retail Lab, a unique project inside a city market in High Street’s hometown of Atlanta. The boutique consultancy has also formalized a partnership with NEC, to use that company’s retail-centric intelligence analytics platform, called ALP, at the lab. […]

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Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 1:25 PM

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Deloitte’s IoT Dashboard Video Wall Logs What’s Happening In Toronto Offices

Following up on that post about seeing a big BMO LED wall while on a layover, I also popped by the lobby of consulting giant Deloitte’s main Toronto office to see a video wall in its reception area that a friend said was interesting. The wall on the mezzanine level, where visitors check in, shows real-time graphics on things like availability of desks. […]

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Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 9:00 AM

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16:9: Giant Curved LED Wall Fills Toronto BMO Branch

I forgot when I had a 12-hour (planned) layover in Toronto a few weeks ago that I took a little time to check out some digital signage installs I had heard about, but not seen. Looking for a photo reminded me. This is a branch of the Bank of Montreal, street-level at the Manulife Centre in midtown Toronto. […]

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Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 8:39 AM

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16:9: Mall Campaign Uses Video, Mobile Analytics To Optimize Messages, Boost Foot Traffic To Stores

This is an effective video from Cineplex Digital Media that shows how using video and mobile analytics, as well as machine learning tech, helped increase foot traffic into the outlets of a couple of beauty brands operating at Toronto’s big, busy and ritzy Yorkdale mall. […]

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Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 1:58 PM

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16:9: Broadsign CEO Burr Smith Provides Thinking And Back-Story Behind Recent M&A Moves

I’m kinda breaking my own podcast rule here by interviewing someone for a second time, but Burr Smith has been a busy guy lately – buying companies and fighting patent trolls. I spoke with the CEO and owner of BroadSign a couple of years ago, but it was more than time for an update chat given recent events. […]

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Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 9:10 AM

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16:9: SEGD Toronto Plans June 27th Micro-Conference About Digital Design

The Toronto chapter of theSociety for Experiential Graphic Design (SEGD) is running a micro-conference in that city on June 27th – talking about digital applications in physical spaces. […]

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Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 11:07 AM

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16:9: Planar Revives Line Transparent OLED Line; Showing At InfoComm

Planar has resumed marketing a transparent OLED, about five years after first launching a product and then pulling it because of supply issues from the original manufacturer/supplier. […]

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Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 10:53 AM

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16:9: Tests Validate Using Digital Signage To Calm Stress Medical Lab Visitors

I don’t know if the test sample is large enough to be meaningful, but it its nonetheless interesting that calming art images and music on a medical lab digital signage system made blood sampling a better experience for patients at the Health Innovation Centre of Southern Denmark. […]

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Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 8:24 AM

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Another Robotic LED Wall Surfaces, But Indoors

Another robotic LED wall has surfaced, though this one is much smaller and indoors. It is what I assume is a demo from the Chinese LED display manufacturer PJ Link. You may recall Coca-Cola bankrolled a very ambitious robotics-driven LED in Times Square that, as predicted by people who knew better, ran into reliability issues when faced with the weather and everything else New York throws at it. […]

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Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:51 AM

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16:9: Palms Facelift Includes 272 Foot Tall LED Mesh Wall Facing Strip

When I was at DSE a couple of months ago, I had a high room with a Strip and west view, and every morning I’d see off in the distance a huge LED display being tested and perhaps burned in on the side of the Palms resort. […]

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Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 8:25 AM

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16:9: How Five Big Business Trends Apply To Digital Signage

Guest Post: Derek DeWitt, Visix Derek DeWitt Back in December, Senior Business Consultant for Microsoft and co-founder of Techincon, Rashan Dixon, wrote an article for Entrepreneur listing five business trends he thought would continue to rise in 2019. Coming up on the midpoint of the year, we can see that his predictions were pretty spot on. […]

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Fri, May 31, 2019 at 8:25 AM

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Digital OOH Start-Up That Puts Screens On Uber Cars Adds $30M Series A Raise

A San Francisco start-up called Firefly that puts digital OOH media screens on the tops of rideshare cars has announced a $30 million series A funding round, which is on top of a $21 million round late last year. Firefly offers a supplemental revenue stream to rideshare drivers in return for affixing a hyper-local, geo-fenced digital sign on the cartop. […]

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Thu, May 30, 2019 at 3:25 PM

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Skykit’s Parent Company Announces $6.5M Raise To Speed Growth

The company behind the Google Chrome OS-centric digital signage solution Skykit has announced a $6.5 million funding round intended to drive what it calls an aggressive growth plan. Minneapolis-based Agosto Holdings, which describes itself as a cloud services and development company, secured funds from Bridge Bank and SG Credit Partners. […]

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Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:25 PM

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16:9: Intersection Does Deal To Equip LA Metro Line With Smart City-style InfoStations and DOOH Ad Screens

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has done a deal with the media and tech company Intersection to install a new messaging and advertising network on the southern portion of the system’s Blue line, as part of rail line improvements. […]

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Wed, May 29, 2019 at 7:22 PM

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16:9: IoT Weight Sensors On Sydney’s Commuter Rail Cars Show Occupancy Estimates On Platform Screens

This is very clever and useful – commuters travelling on the rail network in Sydney, Australia can now make informed decisions on where to stand on a platform for the best shot at getting a seat. The rail authority, Transport for NSW, now has digital signage on platforms that shows which rail cars have seats available, have standing room only or are completely full. […]

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Wed, May 29, 2019 at 10:28 AM

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