I wrote back in July about Mood Media heading into the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy process, and kinda thought, well that’s the end of that. Wrong. The company went in and out of that process quickly and is now actively saying it is looking to BUY other companies. […]
E-Commerce boom It comes as no surprise that online retailers saw a huge boom in sales during COVID-19 lockdowns. In fact, the UK saw a decade’s worth of growth in internet sales as a percentage of total retail sales in just five months at the start of 2020 (see Figure 1). Figure 1. […]
The beauty brand MAC has launched a new digitally-driven brick and mortar concept store in the gentrifying Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York. The store uses plenty of digital display, including a stacked set of skinny bezel LCDs and what looks like an LED halo over part of the open floor plan. […]
Chicago-based in-store digital start-up Cooler Screens has closed a $80 million Series C funding round intended to expand the footprint of its product, which to their ever-lasting credit actually aligns with its name. The company does LCD displays in cooler doors in chain grocery and drug stores. […]
Retailing giant has debuted plans for a major re-working on its in-store design that is built heavily around mobile applications, and borrows on navigation and experience ideas from airports. The new design has very little evidence of digital signage, though there are digital menu boards in-store. […]
This is a Porsche dealer in Hsinchu, Taiwan, a big city in the immediate orbit of Taipei that has a LOT of big tech companies, and therefore any number of high net worth individuals. Porsche Studio Hsinchu is a new concept dealership I assume is aimed at urban locations, where space is finite and real estate particularly expensive. […]
Digital Signage manufacturer Allsee Technologies has announced the expansion of its range of Touch Screen solutions with the launch of a brand new 27” PCAP Self Ordering Kiosks. […]
Montreal-based streaming audio and digital solutions firm Stingray has done a deal that gives the firm a sales footprint in the U.S. market, as well as an “exclusive option” to acquire its new partner, LA’s Space Factory Media. […]
This is an effective video developed by the Portuguese queue management solutions firm Moviik to show how access controls can be handled for small retailers trying to work within the restrictions brought on by COVID-19. […]
This is a really nice multi-screen project for a beauty brand’s store in Andorra, and a great example for marketers in this industry on what to do when showcasing company work. The project page is rich in detail and visuals showing what was done, how and why. Too often, I get pitches or news releases that blabber on and on about who did it, and why everyone is excited/delighted/thrilled. […]
Advocates for Connected Experiences is an umbrella organization created several months ago, that pulls together the people and shared interests of a variety of organizations that deliver experiences to guests. That can be in places like retail, in museums, commercial properties or theme parks. […]
This is the Doughnut Theater Experience – the big Wow Factor feature of a Krispy Kreme flagship store in Times Square in New York. David Title and his crew of artists, coders and techs at Bravo Media spent about a year developing a set of visuals for the store, which just opened this week. […]
BrightSign has started marketing a new purple box, among many little purple media boxes, that plays out high quality audio but only costs $135. […]
Guest Post: Sanjay Manandhar, ISM Connect Sanjay Manandhar When maturity of browsers in the late 1990s was making websites more than digital posters, and getting us all into e-commerce, a constant refrain was that it was not advisable to put one’s credit card details online—fraudsters might start using your credit card. […]
The luxury goods brand Louis Vuitton opened a new store at Rome’s international airport back in late February, just as the pandemic really started to take hold in Europe. So with airports almost empty for months on end, not that many people have likely seen the giant LED facade that welcomes shoppers to the store inside Terminal T3 at Leonardo da Vinci International Airport. […]
