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Renault Deploys Media4Display Across Its Dealer Network

This is a micro dealership/experience center for Renault, one of hundreds of dealer locations across Europe that are now running on Media4Display, the CMS platform marketed by France’s Telelogos. The software has replaced a previous solution that no longer met Renault’s needs, which included:  A minimum of three tiers of management – Global, National, Dealers. […]

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Thu, Oct 18, 2018 at 8:10 AM

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Freshwater Founder Matt Downey On Retail Tech And The Opportunity He Sees In Epaper

Matt Downey’s time in digital signage traces way, way back to the days when Premier Retail Networks was, by far, the big dog in putting screen networks in retail environments. His time with PRN – working with clients like Walmart – eventually led him into working directly for one of his big grocer clients. Not long after that, he took a leap and started his own company. […]

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Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 8:15 AM

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Digital Header Strips Top Whole Foods’ End-Caps

These are end-caps with digital headers being put in by InstoreScreen in Whole Foods stores in the U.S. The grocer uses them to market house brands. They’re LCD screens – custom-manufactured for the job (as opposed to some skinny LCDs which started out as conventional 16:9 screens and were then cut). […]

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Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 7:43 AM

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Giant 250 Sq. M. LED Dome Fills Part Of Mexican Mall’s Ceiling

This is a 250 square meter LED screen that faces down from the ceiling in a central section of a three-level shopping mall in the suburbs of Mexico City. Called The Dome, the installation at the Paseo Interlomas Mall in Huixquilucan, EdoMex runs a series of content pieces designed to be experiential. The project was put together by the Mexico City-based integrator and design studio Kolo DS. […]

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Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 7:13 AM

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The Digital Signage Future (And Present) Is Managed: Industry Vet Jeff Martin

Jeff Martin has been around the digital signage industry for pretty much as long as the industry has existed – running the ops side of some very large retail networks. He was one of the co-founders of SignStorey, which at its peak ran screen networks in a wide range of groceries across the United States in the early to mid-2000s. […]

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Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:30 AM

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LED Fingers Help Drive Diesel Brand In Barcelona Flagship Shop Windows

Here’s a slick, budget-friendly application of LED modules in the shop windows of Diesel’s Barcelona flagship store. The AV/multimedia firm Instronic, also based in Barcelona, put together a shop window branding program that uses 47 of what it calls LED fingers, looking a bit like a big city skyline. There also appears to be a big backdrop LED in one of the windows. […]

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Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 6:29 AM

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Big LED Walls, Giant LCDs Part Of New H&M Flagship In Kuwaiti Mall That Already Had 5 H&Ms

Many things seem to be way over the top, so to speak, when done on the Arab side of the Persian Gulf. Consider news that the Swedish fast-fashion retailer H&M opened on Sept. 12th its largest store on the planet in a Kuwait mall that already had five H&M stores. […]

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Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 3:21 PM

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Digital Signage Guest Blog – A Case Study on the Effectiveness of Point of Sale Signage

Editor’s note: This is a guest blog by Stan Tan of Selby’s – Australia’s leading specialist manufacturer of event branding solutions and fabric displays. With the rise of eCommerce and Amazon, offline retail sales is going through a rough time. Add China on top of that and it is a nightmare. […]

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Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 5:05 AM

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Bangkok Mall Turns Glass Curtain Wall Into Multimedia Spectacular

A new attraction aimed at bringing people to a Bangkok shopping mall lit up in that city on Sept. 15 – using what I am guessing is a lot of projectors, lasers and other gadgets. The nightly show, called the “Colors of Bangkok”, was created by Montreal’s Moment Factory for the CentralWorld mall, and touted as the world’s largest digital interactive display. […]

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Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 8:10 AM

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Stretch LCD Columns Bring Digital Branding To Flagship Jewelry Chain Stores

A little ironically, I am on my way to Montreal on an in-and-out speaking thing as this post goes up about work Montreal’s iGotcha Media is doing with Birks, which has been operating luxury jewelry stores in Canada for many, many decades. Birks is using vertical video walls to subtly underscore its brand in flagship stores. […]

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Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 7:51 AM

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Cineplex Wins Digital Menu Boards Deal For European Subway Shops

Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media (aka CDM) has been engaged by the European wing of Subway to “design, deploy, support and operate a network of digital menu boards at Subway locations across Europe. […]

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Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 10:17 AM

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Custom Digital Art Floods LED-filled Barcelona Mall To Drive Experience

I’ve consulted with shopping mall groups, and they often talk about their aspiration to use digital to create memorable experiences. A lot of what I have seen done in malls is not all that memorable, and ultimately driven more by getting incremental ad dollars from big screens on walls. […]

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Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 8:42 AM

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16:9: Transparent LED And Interactive Walls At Nissan’s Amazing Ginza Experience Center

This is really something – the Nissan Crossing experience center in Tokyo’s famed Ginza shopping district. The center has mostly been around since 1963, but was brought back and fully re-energized a couple of years ago, using a lot of technology. […]

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Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 8:01 AM

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16:9: Why Big Retailers Like Whole Foods Are Deploying Digital Endcaps And Shelf-Edge Displays

Retail is one of the most-chased vertical markets in all of digital signage, but if you ask people who really know this tech, but also really know retail, they’ll tell you they’ve rarely seen it done well, or right. I tend to agree, and sometimes its not the whiz-bang flashy stuff that makes a difference, but the more pedestrian stuff that does the whole right message/right time thing. […]

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Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 10:38 PM

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Digital Signage Case Study – iBroke My Gadget (Allsee)

Background iBroke My Gadget is a gadget repair specialist originally founded in 2005 as a local mobile phone contract provider. It was during this early stage of the business that the company gained a vast amount of knowledge about repairing devices. […]

allsee-tech.com
Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 4:27 AM

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