These are end-caps with digital headers being put in by InstoreScreen in Whole Foods stores in the U.S. The grocer uses them to market house brands. They’re LCD screens – custom-manufactured for the job (as opposed to some skinny LCDs which started out as conventional 16:9 screens and were then cut). […]
This is a 250 square meter LED screen that faces down from the ceiling in a central section of a three-level shopping mall in the suburbs of Mexico City. Called The Dome, the installation at the Paseo Interlomas Mall in Huixquilucan, EdoMex runs a series of content pieces designed to be experiential. The project was put together by the Mexico City-based integrator and design studio Kolo DS. […]
Jeff Martin has been around the digital signage industry for pretty much as long as the industry has existed – running the ops side of some very large retail networks. He was one of the co-founders of SignStorey, which at its peak ran screen networks in a wide range of groceries across the United States in the early to mid-2000s. […]
Registration has now opened for the 2019 of Integrated Systems Europe – which runs Feb. 5-9 at the RAI Amsterdam. The massive pro AV trade show – which has a big digital signage component – is expected to draw numbers in excess of 2018’s totals of 80,923 registered attendees and 1,296 exhibitors. […]
It is reasonable to suggest that Sony has been, at most, on the fringes of the digital signage industry for many years. So it’s interesting to stumble across indications that it 1) has a solution and 2) it’s getting used. […]
The line-up is now set for the annual Coffee and Controversy breakfast event in New York, at the end of the month, during what has grown into New York Digital Signage Week. The Oct. 30th panel will feature the CEOs of two of the most active and aggressive companies in the signage ecosystem – Chris Riegel of STRATACACHE and Jeff Hastings of BrightSign. […]
Here’s an entirely new kind of digital signage fail – spotted by a reader this morning at the Atlantic (Brooklyn) Long Island Railroad (LIRR) station. Normally, we see Windows or other errors on screens out in the wilds. In this case, somehow or other, there is a blank PowerPoint template up for all to see??? […]
The Boston-area market research firm International Data Corporation has released new data on the global digital signage market that suggests Samsung continues to be the big dog when it comes to display shipments, with LG second and, in a slightly weird twist, a company I’ve never heard of ahead of NEC in third spot. Goodview??? […]
Here’s a slick, budget-friendly application of LED modules in the shop windows of Diesel’s Barcelona flagship store. The AV/multimedia firm Instronic, also based in Barcelona, put together a shop window branding program that uses 47 of what it calls LED fingers, looking a bit like a big city skyline. There also appears to be a big backdrop LED in one of the windows. […]
Many things seem to be way over the top, so to speak, when done on the Arab side of the Persian Gulf. Consider news that the Swedish fast-fashion retailer H&M opened on Sept. 12th its largest store on the planet in a Kuwait mall that already had five H&M stores. […]
Taiwan-based E Ink will be at the CEATAC trade show in Japan mid-month show off its new Advanced Color ePaper – call ACeP – which does full color at every pixel without the use of a color filter array, something used in its previous large format color displays. The company says: ACeP achieves a full color gamut, including all eight primary colors, using only colored pigments. […]
The winding road that has characterized the story of RMG Networks in the last 10 years has added another turn with news that the Dallas-based digital signage solutions company has been acquired and taken off the stock market, converted to a privately-held entity. […]
This is what’s being billed as the largest interactive video wall on the planet – set in a rail hub in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The project was put together for the Saudi Arabia Railway (SAR) by the huge Spanish integrator Trison. The job required a curved interactive screen that would be 37 meters wide and 1.2 meters high. […]
The famous Red Rocks Amphitheatre south of Denver resolved a big issue around the concert venue with keeping food and drinks concession signage timely and accurate – resorting to printing and manually replacing static signage at each individual stand. […]
With a plethora of ads and other distractions, it’s important for businesses to stand out in today’s market. This is why digital billboards can help companies get the edge when it comes to the consumer’s decision making. Let’s look at digital out-of-home advertising (DOOH ads) and see how they can help businesses attract customers and make sales. […]
