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16:9: DSF Toronto Plans June 6th Mixer Based On Digital Signage In Dining

Capital Networks’ Kelly Smith and the Toronto chapter of the Digital Signage Federation have organized the second in what is planned as a running series of breakfast mixers. The June 6th event is focused on Digital In Dining, and features people from McDonalds and Aramark, as well as iGotcha Media. The event is out in Mississauga at Samsung’s Canadian HQ. […]

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Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:17 AM

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16:9: Expanded UNIQLO Store Takes Big Steps With LED

The expanded UNIQLO store at Toronto Eaton Centre – a huge indoor mall in the city’s central business district – has a staircase that’s now lined with LED risers. The stairs were custom-made by Ottawa’s UTG Digital Media for the expansion. […]

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Wed, May 22, 2019 at 12:55 PM

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16:9: Why Canada’s Biggest Cinema Company Is In Digital Signage

Canadians all know Cineplex as the dominant movie theater chain in that country, and the Toronto-based company has also been expanding its reach, in recent years, into other related lines of business. […]

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Tue, May 21, 2019 at 11:16 PM

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11:9: New Liverpool Seven Store Makes Digital Signage A Focal Point

Some nice uses of narrow bezel Philips LCD displays in this new Seven apparel store in Liverpool, put in by the UK solutions provider Skratch. Not really sure about the big green wall with the shoe display shelves. Don’t see bezels, so I am either missing that in the pic, it’s LED ($$$!!!), or a fabric print in front of lightboxes. […]

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Tue, May 21, 2019 at 1:22 PM

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Ferrari Dealer Switches Out Paper Showroom Fact Sheets For E-Paper Tags

The guys at Freshwater Digital have built up knowledge and experience working with e-paper signs – or what they call digital tags – and introduced them into interesting use cases. I know the Grand Rapids, MI solution provider has a research client using them at stations to automatically update findings and status. […]

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Tue, May 21, 2019 at 7:24 AM

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16:9: Walmart Opens AI-Driven Intelligent Retail Lab Outside NYC

Walmart has started testing computer vision and AI in a big way at an “Intelligent Retail Lab” lab on Long Island, outside New York City. The Walmart Neighborhood Market in Levittown, N.Y. has 1,000s of overhead cameras tracking the state and movement in the store aisles, as well as standard and interactive digital signage screens explaining the Lab and infrastructure. […]

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Mon, May 6, 2019 at 12:08 AM

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16:9: UK’s Allsee Is Marketing Battery-Powered Digital Sandwich Boards

Birmingham, UK-based Allsee Technologies has started marketing a digital sandwich board display that’s portable and runs 12-plus hours on a rechargeable battery. The pitch is that these things are easily positioned wherever they need to be, and don’t need to be against a wall to get power, or require a power cord that becomes a tripping risk. […]

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Thu, May 2, 2019 at 10:15 AM

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16:9: The Store With The Most Screens Doesn’t Necessarily Win

Canadian sporting goods and apparel retailer SportChek has large footprint shopping mall and standalone stores across the country and has, for many years now, been an early and enthusiastic adopter of digital signage technology. On one hand, it has been great to see a retailer making a big investment in screens and related hardware and software. […]

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Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 11:00 PM

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16:9: Canada’s Mountain Equipment Coop Outsources In-Store Digital Signage To Cineplex

Immediately on the heels of my rant about a sporting goods retailer doing digital signage badly comes word of another Canadian retailer – also kinda sorta in the same category – expanding and revising its in-store digital signage. […]

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Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 9:54 AM

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It’s time to deploy digital kiosks. Here’s why

Inside and out, and all around the world, digital kiosks are taking over. Typically incorporating touch-enabled screens, these kiosks represent an ideal intersection of appeal and functionality. For all manner of businesses and other entities, there’s a lot to be gained by installing kiosks in key locations. […]

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Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 12:09 PM

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16:9: Blended Reality Nail Polish Kiosks Drive 24% Sales Bumps

The global beauty company COTY is using free-standing blended reality kiosks to help demo and sell a line of nail polish products, and has seen 24% sales bumps at locations where they are plugged in. There are more than 400 units – marketing nail polish from the COTY brand OPI – in third-party stores around the world. […]

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Wed, Apr 17, 2019 at 8:23 AM

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16:9: LED Mesh Screens Have Come A Long Way, But …

There were numerous overseas vendors at ISE – and I expect to see more at Infocomm in a couple of months – showing mesh-screen LED displays. They have come a long way in a relatively short time, and when running, the pixel pitch of these things can be good enough to deliver crisp, rich and definitely  bright visuals. […]

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Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 9:34 AM

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Allsee Unveils Their First Battery Powered Digital Signage Product

Allsee Technologies, a leader in innovative Digital Signage solutions, today introduced their first battery powered display – the Digital Android Battery A-Board. Hotly anticipated, this product is the first of its kind on the market that is supported from the UK. […]

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Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 6:39 AM

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Digital Signage Case Study – Captain Cook Square

Background Captain Cook Square is a large open air shopping centre located in the heart of Middlesbrough. Opened in 1999 the centre has many familiar high street retailers including Waterstones, The Entertainer, Wilko and Poundland. […]

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Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 6:04 AM

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16:9: Levi’s Time Square Flagship Uses 1,000+ Sq. Ft. Of LED To Drive People into Stores

The new-ish Levi’s flagship store in Times Square in New York City (lotsa posts lately about NYC and Times Square!) is, at nearly 17,000 square feet, the apparel company’s largest flagship. It’s a multi-level shop, opened last fall, that goes big on AV – notably fine pitch D3 LED displays, run by Reflect CMS software and BrightSign boxes. […]

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Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 8:57 AM

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