Holland Park Roundabout has been at the forefront of digital out-of-home technology ever since Ocean launched the first vehicle detection there in 2016. […]
Google yesterday announced a new service called Android Things, described as a minimal version of the Android operating system that is widely used in digital signage, on media players and in some display manufacturers’ system on chip displays. […]
Last week in Miami, the 4A’s launched a new vision at its annual conference, Accelerate. To move the ad industry forward, the 4A’s will focus on creativity, commerce, and culture. The vision recognizes a need to reinvent client-agency partnerships in today’s world, where virtually all economic models are being disrupted by massive transformation. […]
There are extremely varied opinions on what the presence of companies like Google, Adobe and Microsoft mean to the digital signage industry. On one hand, there are people who see these kinds of companies, from outside the formal business, as the ones who will eventually take over. […]
Google recently announced an Android Management API, designed for developers who want to integrate Android device and app management capabilities into their customer solutions, like digital signage. The API currently supports Android devices that are designed to perform a specific purpose use case, like playing out media. […]
Google-backed Intersection has started rolling out what will be some 300 interactive digital stations at hubs along the Philadelphia-area rail system run by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, aka SEPTA. The digital totems offer real-time transit information and maps, as well as free WiFi. […]
Anyone involved in delivering a digital signage solution that’s going to be used, at least a little, by minimally trained and barely engaged local managers and workers knows the “big ask” is to dumb the user experience down as much as possible. If it’s complicated, people won’t use it, they say. […]
I have a clear memory from two years ago of walking over to see the Google booth at Digital Signage Expo, and seeing three very smart, senior industry guys standing there taking it in from one corner – two of them looking somewhere between amused and disdainful. […]
Here’s a very different video demo that shows some possibilities of how digital signage might work with smart devices like the Google Home personal assistant, Google’s answer to Alexa. The demo from UK-based ScreenCloud shows how content could be accessed via voice command. […]
Deployments with 14 players – not 100s or 1,000s – don’t tend to get a lot of attention here, but it’s a bit different when the brands involved include Mickey Mouse and Google. The Walt Disney Swan and Dolphin Resort in the Orlando area has installed a communications network with two distinct tracks – one talking to guests, and the other back of house to staff. […]
Taiwan-based AOPEN started showing off a pair of new commercial-grade Chrome devices yesterday at the NRF show – a smaller, much cheaper solid state Chromebox and a tablet-sized Chromebase. The latter, the Chromebase Mini, is a 10.1 inch all-in-one touchscreen that would compete with commercial-grade tablets and small system on chip displays. […]
There’s always some other place with more, but in my travels, I’ve just come back from the most digital signage-rich store I’ve seen to date. The Best Buy at Heartland Town Centre in Mississauga, a city part of the greater Toronto metropolis, has screens everywhere. I wouldn’t say it was incredibly well done. […]
I think we can all agree that 2016 was a funny old year. The pollsters got it spectacularly wrong – twice – which has to be the best endorsement ever for big data and intelligent intelligence, while post-truth became the Oxford Dictionaries word of the year (at least it beat Brexiteer to the top spot!). […]
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Hat Tip to @digitaloohnews for spotting this … Toyota’s European auto division has rolled out a ChromeOS-based digital signage solution to some 3,000 of its showrooms, and the company says it plans to have as many as 10,000 screens running off Chromeboxes, across 3,600 dealers. […]
