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16:9: Costa Rica Digital Signage Provider Decides To Make Own Sanitizer-Display Hybrids To Stay Open

Costa Rican digital signage solutions company IdeaMedia was looking, like a lot of companies, at a bumpy future brought on by the COVID-19, so like a lot of small companies thrown into an unplanned lockdown, it pivoted.   “We are trying to not only to remain alive, but also try to financially survive this pandemic,” says company owner Adrian Carmona in an email to Sixteen:Nine. […]

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Tue, May 5, 2020 at 7:39 AM

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Beabloo Launches Interaction Care Solution Designed To Address New Retail Norms

Numerous companies have been announcing new products – like access control and thermal sensing displays – to help run businesses in the midst of COVID-19, but Barcelona-based retail tech firm Beabloo has gone several steps further by launching a full solution designed to address a variety of needs for what may be a new norm for retail. […]

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Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 7:40 AM

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OOH and Small Business Go Together – Now More than Ever (DSConnection)

For decades, Out-of-Home (OOH) and small business have been the most steadfast of partners with the majority of OOH ads being sold to promote local businesses. This powerful, enduring partnership has taken on new and vital meaning during the current COVID-19 crisis. […]

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Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:50 AM

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16:9: Chinese Bricks And Mortar Back Open, But Sputtering In Recovery: Gartner Research

The research and advisory firm Gartner has an interesting piece up online about how retail is working in China, where COVID-19 started and has pretty much gone (maybe just for now). The piece suggests while stores are mostly back open, the aisles are not filled and bricks and mortar people are feeling even more pressure to add or shift to digital channels. […]

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Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 8:24 AM

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16:9: Germany’s xplace Markets Smart Entrance Kit For Retail

One of the things discussed at length in the latest 16:9 Podcast, released overnight, is the use of displays, sensors and software to control foot traffic into stores and other businesses. The heads of the German consultancy invidis relate how these digital A-Frame displays are being used as a measure to limit access and meet social distancing guidelines or mandates. […]

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Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 7:42 AM

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Visionect Touts E-Paper Version Of Access Control Displays

This is a different spin on the idea of access control screens outside of businesses – a podium, wall or even window-mounted e-paper display that runs off batteries. This is from Visionect, the Slovenian company that does e-paper displays and software for everything from meeting room signs to live bus stop notice and schedule signs. […]

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Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 9:43 AM

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16:9: Are Lowly Digital Sandwich Boards The Next Big Thing In Digital Signage?

Florian Rotberg from Munich’s invidis consultancy did a state of the industry brief on a webinar I was part of Tuesday, and he mentioned how digital signage that enables simple access control has become a red-hot customer ask in Europe. […]

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Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 6:57 AM

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16:9: The Story Behind The New Industry Group ACE – Advocates for Connected Experiences

There are a lot of special interest member organizations out there, all focused on the things they do as businesses, but also on the trends and market forces that affect them. There is a hell of a lot of crossover when it comes to things like customer experience, but historically, there’s been very little crossover between these special interest organizations. […]

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Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 12:10 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage Solution Tweaked To Enforce Social Distancing At Retail

When I load up with my sanitizer and wipes, and grab my mask, to go out on a grocery or hardware run, I almost invariably end up in a line-up outside the store – with social distancing markers on the sidewalk and a cashier turned bouncer controlling access at the door. One person leaves, and then one person goes in. […]

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Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 5:05 PM

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16:9: Singapore Gov’t Authority Using Sensors To Visualize, Load-Balance Malls To Help Social Distancing

The Singapore government has started published a really interesting real-time data visualization that provides citizens with the status of crowd levels at shopping malls. […]

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Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 10:25 AM

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16:9: Industry Associations Form Umbrella Group, Called ACE, To Raise Game For Connected Experiences

A diverse set of organizations has banded together to create a cross-industry group that collectively wants to advise, educate and lead thinking and activities for connected digital experiences. The new Advocates for Connected Experiences, or ACE, has a steering committee that includes members of the Digital Signage Federation, Geopath, OAAA, LBMA, SEGD, ICX Association and Retail TouchPoints. […]

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Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 6:20 AM

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16:9: Electronic Shelf Labels Multi-Purposed As Health Messaging

The Spar c-stores in, I think, Ireland are multi-purposing their electronic shelf labels to provide pricing AND health messaging. […]

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Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 8:38 AM

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16:9: Smart Shelf Start-up Opens Autonomous C-Store At LA Apartment Complex

A kinda sorta digital signage tech startup focused on smart retailing has opened an autonomous micro c-store in Orange County, California that uses a combination of LED ribbon “smart” shelves, payments systems and AI-based computer vision. […]

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Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 12:01 PM

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16:9: Timing Is Everything: Digital Signage Paired With Hand Sanitizer No Longer Novelty Product

Timing is sometimes everything when it comes to marketing a product, and it can take a compelling event to shift a product from being regarded as “interesting” to one that is right for the moment. […]

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Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 8:56 AM

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16:9: The Rationale And Benefits Of Digital Signage In Cannabis Retailing

Few retail verticals need digital signage the way cannabis retailing needs it. You have a wide range of products emerging from a black market into licensed main street, mainstream retailing and a whole bunch of new customers whose collective understanding doesn’t extend much beyond knowing they won’t get arrested for buying it. […]

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Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 10:26 AM

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