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16:9: Adobe Showing Transparent Retail Display Hardware Concept At SIGGRAPH; And We’re Not Sure Why

Creative software giant Adobe continues to dabble in digital signage – first with its own Screens management software and now with display technology. The company will be at the SIGGRAPH gaming tech conference this week in LA showing off some skunkworks R&D tech that looks like transparent LCD and OLED screens got together overnight at a Vegas trade show, and had a love-child. […]

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Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 8:14 PM

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How to use digital signage in grocery stores to drive more business (Broadsign)

Though grocery stores have not been immune to the changing fortunes of the retail space, revenues in the space continue to grow year on year, clearing more than $640 billion in the United States in 2017. […]

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Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 5:17 PM

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16:9: Bad Idea: McDonald’s Interrupting Full Digital Menuboards To Run Lion King Promos

Hat Tip @BradParler for tweeting on this … This seems like a really bad idea – running an interstitial-style ad for a new movie promo that completely takes over the digital menus at a McDonald’s somewhere in the U.S. Presumably, given it is an expensive spot and McDonald’s has a Happy Meal tie-in with the movie, this is happening in way more than one location. […]

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Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 6:37 AM

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16:9: Canada’s Tim Hortons Coffee Chain Tests Digital-Rich Upmarket Cafe

I am not sure what the double-double crowd (Canadians will know what I mean) will think of a new Tim Hortons location opening up in Toronto’s financial district tomorrow. The Tim Hortons 130 King will be the company’s “first-ever innovation café. […]

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Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 5:29 AM

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16:9: Quebec’s Lottery Corp Rolling Out Menuboard-Style Screens In Walmart Kiosks

Loto-Quebec was an early adopter for digital signage, putting screens in retail sites well more than a decade ago. Much of what the lotteries concern does is a basic set-up in convenience stores, but like other lottery companies they try to create a larger, special purpose presence in shopping malls and heavy foot traffic retail locations like Walmarts. […]

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Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 9:02 AM

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Video: Mind-blowing 3D Content At Giant Seoul Duty-Free

Hat Tip Gary Kayye for noting thus on LinkedIn … This is some rather amazing three dimensional content on a ceiling-suspended 3.5mm LED install at the Shinsegae duty free store in Gangnam, the famed Seoul shopping district. The content was put together by D’Strict, the Korean company that also did that similarly suspended ceiling over a bar at the SLS in Vegas. […]

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Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 1:14 PM

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16:9: Ambitious New LA Skateboard Shop Uses Curved LED Wall To Drive Retail Experience

Readers will be shocked to read that I don’t know a lot about skateboards or skateboard retailing. Shameful, but true. I did not know, for example, that they can look like over-priced kitchenware stores, or a forgotten part of the Caesars Palace resort in Vegas. […]

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Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 6:25 AM

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Pop-Up Shop In Flashy UK Mall Uses AI To Highlight Trendiest Togs

The major shopping center Westfield London has launched a pop-up store that uses artificial intelligence from Nextatlas to identify, curate and display the hottest fashion trends available in that mall. It’s a short-term demo, with proceeds going to the Save The Children charity. […]

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Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 9:33 AM

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16:9: If You Sell Digital Signage Solutions Into Food Services, You’re Now Competing With Coca-Cola

Well this is pretty interesting – digital signage CMS companies chasing the food services businesses have long known they had many competitors, big and small, but they probably never envisioned Coca-Cola being among them. […]

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Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 7:02 PM

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16:9: Debacle On 34th Street: One Very Big, Very Out Fine Pitch LED

This is the Footlocker store on 34th Street in New York, across from Macy’s. An industry colleague sent me a photo showing the huge LED wall, intersected by an escalator, was out. Not good, but I figured, cut the guys a break – it could be a maintenance issue and maybe the screen was back on an hour after the photo was shot. […]

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Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 8:57 AM

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16:9: Family Fare Grocery Chain Uses Digital Merchandising Displays And End-Caps

Here are a couple of different digital merchandising displays put together for the Family Fare supermarket chain by another Grand Rapids’ MI-based company, Freshwater Digital. […]

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Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 8:20 AM

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16:9: Two Examples Of Low Rez LED Displays That Are More Mood Than Message

Here’s a couple of examples of low-resolution LED display applications that use blend with fabric or film to create soft, diffused visuals that are meant as motion backdrops or accents. The first is a fixture by the NYC printing company Duggal, which has a digital wing and created an interesting spin-out product called . […]

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Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 8:54 AM

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Atlanta’s High Street Collective Launches Living Retail Lab (And It Has A Bar!)

The retail innovation consultancy HighStreet Collective has launched what it calls a Living Retail Lab, a unique project inside a city market in High Street’s hometown of Atlanta. The boutique consultancy has also formalized a partnership with NEC, to use that company’s retail-centric intelligence analytics platform, called ALP, at the lab. […]

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Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 1:25 PM

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16:9: Mall Campaign Uses Video, Mobile Analytics To Optimize Messages, Boost Foot Traffic To Stores

This is an effective video from Cineplex Digital Media that shows how using video and mobile analytics, as well as machine learning tech, helped increase foot traffic into the outlets of a couple of beauty brands operating at Toronto’s big, busy and ritzy Yorkdale mall. […]

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Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 1:58 PM

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How to get the most out of digital cannabis dispensary signage

The movement to legalize cannabis for recreational use has picked up steam in the past couple of years, with multiple states decriminalizing or outright legalizing the practice and Canada legalizing cannabis across the country. Hundreds of entrepreneurs have seized the opportunity to set up their own shops where legal. […]

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Thu, May 30, 2019 at 12:52 PM

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