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16:9: Chinese Beauty Brand Nu Skin Fills Shenzhen Flagship With Digital Screens

This is a very ambitious, digitally-rich flagship store for Chinese health and beauty brand Nu Skin, opened recently in Shenzhen. Toronto-based Shikatani Lacroix Design (SLD) worked with consulting firm MetaThink to build a store intended as an experience center that reflected the company’s story and brand culture, and showcased products. […]

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Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 8:44 AM

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16:9 Podcast – From ESLs to Avatars At NRF 2019

This is a special edition of the podcast, which I am pretty much whacking together myself, in the wake of running around the NRF show last week in New York. I had my handy little Tascam recorder with me, so I grabbed some quick interviews with several companies I bumped into, with the idea of stitching them together in a round-up. These are not the biggest companies. […]

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Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 1:22 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage Organisation Forms, Focusing On European Industry

The Digital Signage Organisation (or DSO) has been formed and announced as a new entity intended to support the European Digital Signage industry. The organization’s President is Simon Jackson – who is Vice President, Strategic & Vertical Sales EMEA for NEC Display Solutions, and was previously President of the Digital Signage Federation Europe (DSF-E). […]

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Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 7:19 AM

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16:9: Digital Signs Of The Times: Shutdown Time Counters And Birdbox Challenge Warnings

The digital signage CMS software company Rise Vision produces a lot of free, ready-to-use templates for its big base of 9,000-plus customers, and while most of them are things like welcome messages, promotions, menus and calendars, the company’s creatives have also produced things that are more public service-oriented, like anti-bullying messages. […]

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Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 8:59 AM

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16:9: Best Western Rolls Out Smart, webOS-based Screen Network To 2,400+ Hotels

LG is seeing what must be one of the largest deployments yet of smart digital signage displays – one or several webOS-based smart commercial screens in more than 2,400 Best Westerns across the US and Canada. […]

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Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 6:11 AM

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16:9: Broadsign Fights “Patent Troll” To Draw As Both Sides Drop Actions

Montreal digital OOH software shop Broadsign has fought its way to a draw with a company widely labelled as a patent troll – getting released from current action from T-Rex Property AB while agreeing in turn to dismiss the counter lawsuit it filed against T-Rex. […]

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Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 8:54 AM

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16:9: Cranky General Public 1 – Smart Screen 0

I’ve always assumed that smart city information stations located away from a city’s major plazas and thoroughfares would get the living shit beat out of them by tipsy or angry members of the general public. Putting $30,000 (or whatever) units on a sidewalk in Jackson Heights or the Bronx just … seemed … risky. […]

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Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 2:31 PM

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16:9: Nike’s House Of Innovation In NYC Great On Experience, Terrible On Screens

When I was at the NRF show this week in New York, I bumped into numerous industry friends – some who encouraged me to get away from the exhibit venue and head over to the new-ish Nike “House of Innovation” flagship on 5th Avenue. It was mind-blowing, I was told. So I grabbed an Uber with a friend, Raffi Vartian from Diversified, and went over to see what all the fuss was about. […]

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Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 2:16 PM

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16:9: How Chive Media Keeps Butts On Barstools, And Its Plans To Expand Its Screen Network Well Beyond Bars

The big selling point for Chive TV is that the streaming channel’s five-hour mix of curated social media content keeps butts in barstools. The Austin, Texas-based company has some 4,000 bar and restaurant venues running content on one or many of their TVs, and about 500 more come on monthly – with a lot of that growth through word of mouth. […]

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Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 11:11 PM

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16:9: My Impressions Of NRF 2019 – From The Lens Of Digital Signage

Sitting at Newark airport, heading back to East Coast Canada, after the National Retail Federation trade show in New York. I don’t go every year, so I can’t pass on year to year impressions. But I have been several times, including 2 or 3 times in the last five years. […]

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Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 7:14 PM

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16:9: What You’re Getting Wrong About Digital Signage – And What To Do About It

Guest Post: Geoff Bessin, Intuiface You’ve been careful. You’ve studied all the angles. Thought about your audience, quality content, the project’s goals, hardware. […]

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Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 8:05 PM

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16:9: Look Ma, No Peripherals – This Touchscreen Embeds Payment Tech In The Display

One of the biggest payments tech companies around has found a display provider to partner on interactive kiosks that embed payment capabilities in the actual screen, instead of beside it or virtually using phones. […]

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Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 9:33 AM

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New Hotel At ISE Venue To Be Projection-Mapped During Show

The brand new nhow Amsterdam RAI hotel, which is adjacent to the site of next month’s Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) trade show, will be projection-mapped each day during the event. Specially-created content will be projected onto the 25-storey, 650-room nhow Amsterdam RAI from 3 to 8 pm  each day throughout ISE week. […]

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Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 9:36 AM

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16:9: A Huge 260-Screen OLED Waterfall Scene Greets LG’s CES 2019 Stand Visitors

Last year, CES visitors to LG’s stand walked along an OLED screen canyon. This year, there’s an OLED waterfall … kinda sorta. LG’s sprawling CES booth, by the main entrance to the Las Vegas Convention Center, has 260 OLEDs in a dramatic, wavy waterfalls-like set-up. […]

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Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 9:19 AM

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16:9: Restaurant Tech Co Debuts Screen-Driven Order Pick-Up Podiums

Trends in fast casual and QSR restaurants are having an interesting impact on digital signage usage in that sector, and new technology coming out of San Francisco company is a great example of a company adapting to a changing landscape. […]

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Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 8:47 AM

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