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16:9: Despite All The Gloomy Stories, U.S. Bricks and Mortar Retail Growing

If your company chases business in retail, you’ll know it’s a tough slog for a bunch of reasons, and you’ll also have heard and read no end of stories about how brick and mortar retail is in a death spiral. Turns out that’s not really true. The National Retail Federation says the industry may indeed be evolving, but it’s also growing. […]

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Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 2:45 PM

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16:9: 800,000+ Digital Signage Displays Shipped Q1 2017

LOTS of interesting stuff in the new IHS Markit Digital Signage & Professional Displays Market Analysis, this one for Q2 2017. Here’s the top-line stuff in the executive summary: For the first quarter of 2017 (Q1 2017), public display monitor shipments increased 2.6%, with shipments reaching over 804,000 units. […]

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Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 12:29 PM

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Leisure Based Shopping Trips – Key to Westfield’s Success

It’s no surprise to anyone that retail patterns and behaviours are changing, resulting in winners and losers in the battle for the retail £ as it swings between the “online” and traditional “bricks and mortar” retailers. The battle is fierce, but the traditional retailers still command over 80% of the spend. […]

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Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:19 PM

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16:9: Kiwi C-Store Chain’s Digital Signage Screens Drive Triple-Digit Sales

Sales lift stories tend to be hard to come by from retailers and brands using digital signage, often because they’re not overly motivated to tell competitors what’s working. But here’s a short case study out of New Zealand about screens in the forecourts and inside New Zealand BP gas stations and c-stores. […]

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Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 6:25 PM

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16:9: If Retail Is Your Digital Signage Vertical, The Numbers Aren’t Looking Great

When I ask digital signage solutions providers about the verticals they chase, most will mention retail, but few say that’s where they are highly-focused. Good thing, given that the scale of retail is not tipping the right way. A Business Insider story notes Credit Suisse research work that suggests retailers are closing stores in the U.S. […]

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Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 10:51 AM

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16:9: Startup Shows E-paper That’s Color And Video-Capable

Display nerds at last week’s annual Society for Information Display’s annual DisplayWeek, this year in LA, saw among other things e-paper technology that was both color AND video capable. Tech developed by Silicon Valley start-up CLEARink, based on R&D that came out of the University of British Columbia, was among the Best In Show winners at the event. […]

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Mon, May 29, 2017 at 9:12 AM

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16:9: Digital signage ecosystem seeing double-digit growth: IHS Markit

The latest Digital Signage & Professional Displays Market Analysis from IHS Markit – which the company makes available to Digital Signage Federation members – has a bunch of interesting nuggets of information. […]

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Wed, May 24, 2017 at 11:44 PM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Rodolfo Saccoman, CEO/Founder of AdMobilize

There’s nothing all that new about digital signage networks using video analytics to get some sense of what’s happening with audiences near screens, but AdMobilize is not just another company peddling the same old stuff. […]

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Wed, May 17, 2017 at 12:00 AM

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OAAA: New research proves the effectiveness of OOH advertising

May 1, 2017 My Turn A burst of new research proves the power of OOH to deliver value in a media landscape tilted to digital (desktop and mobile). In 2016, mobile overtook desktop spending, and for the first time, digital (mobile, desktop, social) as a whole has passed TV ad spend. […]

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Mon, May 1, 2017 at 6:44 PM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Ke-Quang Nguyen-Phuc, Quividi

A lot of companies have come in and out of video analytics for digital signage, but the one constant has been Quividi – a French company with an anonymous pattern detection product a lot of people will tell you is the gold standard for this tech. […]

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Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:07 PM

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Research confirms the positive effect of Piccadilly Lights on brand image

Piccadilly Circus has a long & rich history as an iconic landmark for London and the UK. So when Ocean and Land Securities’ announced exciting plans for the new Piccadilly Lights, creating a unique and prestigious new platform for brands to reach global consumers in the UK’s capital, it represented far more than just an upgrade of an OOH advertising location. […]

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Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 9:31 AM

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16:9: Market Analysts Peg Digital Signage Display Annual Growth At 16.7%, Through 2021

The Swedish research firm Berg Insight has put out a summary of a new report looking at the size of the connected digital signage display market globally, predicting it will grow at a compounded annual rate of 16.7% through 2021. […]

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Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 5:31 PM

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16:9: Beware of fake digital signage market reports

I come across these every day and I actually read some of them. They look like garbage [Ed.] You will no doubt come across, in some lazy trade publication, a copy and paste version of this press release Digital Signage Market Size likely to grow at 5.2% CAGR from 2016 to 2023. It says the industry’s market size is going to be $23 billion and blah-blah-blah …. […]

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Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:11 AM

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Future Interfaces Lab Pairs Phones To Big Touch Displays Using Just The Phone Camera

Finding a seamless link between digital signage/interactive displays and smartphones has so far been something of a bridge too far – the problems being a need for certain technologies to be included or installed on the phone. A new system from the Future Interfaces Group research lab at Carnegie Mellon University takes a run at the challenge, with interesting results. […]

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Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 8:12 AM

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16:9: In Digital Signage, Bigger Is Not Always The Answer

Guest Post: Jørn Olsen, Pronto TV I used to have an old wooden boat that I would spend a lot of time maintaining and polishing every autumn, to be ready for the next summer. Jørn Olsen Every year, my “boat-neighbors” swapped their boats to something a little bigger than last season. […]

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Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 8:20 AM

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