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16:9: Interactive Retail Merchandiser Perch Completes $1.7M Seed Funding

NYC-based Perch, which has for several years been developing very clever interactive merchandising pieces for retail, has announced a $1.7 million seed funding raise and a high profile addition to its advisory board.Perch first came on my radar several years ago with an overhead projection system that turned an ordinary white merchandising table into a very nicely designed interactive lift and learn device. […]

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Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 7:25 AM

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Gable Hires On Director To Head 17-Designer Visual Communications Team

I don’t tend to run much news about new hires at companies, because the reader analytics clearly indicate few of you care. BUT, this one is kind of interesting. Baltimore-based AV design and solutions firm Gable, which has grown increasingly involved in this sector in the last 2-3 years, has hired on a Design Director for Gable’s Solutions Design Group. […]

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Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 10:55 AM

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The Smart Mirror Retail Revival

D4C approached Premio Inc. with the idea to create a smart mirror to influence the shopping experience for consumers. This smart mirror would be user-friendly and would have an interactive interface that would be attractive and revolutionary for consumers to use. […]

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Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 1:27 PM

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Digital Signage Stories – YETI Flagship Store Embraces Digital Signage

Digital Signage Stories, the official podcast of Digital Signage Expo and its editorial partner site DigitalSignageConnection.com, highlights successful digital signage projects and installations deployed around the world in a variety of different vertical markets. […]

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Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 8:37 AM

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Use Retail Digital Signage For Forward-Think Customer Experiences

Headlines screaming about the so-called retail apocalypse would have retailers believe there’s nothing they can do to keep customers from abandoning the physical shopping experience. Owners should tune out the doom and gloom and focus on making visitors happy when they pass by or enter their place of business. […]

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Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 4:14 AM

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16:9: How Projection Mapping Got Small, Affordable And Easy Via SF Startup Lightform

One of the most interesting companies I saw recently at InfoComm in Las Vegas was Lightform, a San Francisco start-up that is making the once dark art of projection mapping available to just about everyone. It wasn’t that long ago that projection mapping was all about very ambitious, very complicated, very expensive projects that only a handful of companies had the chops to pull off. […]

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Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 7:11 AM

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YETI Flagship Location Becomes Ultimate Digital Destination

YETI and Mood Media collaborated on YETI’s first brick-and-mortar store in Austin, Texas. Multiple digital signage content zones create a unique and memorable customer experience that help drive YETI cooler sales, emphasize lifestyles of customer ambassadors and share fun stories of YETI products. […]

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Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 1:22 PM

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Philippines Mall Projection-Maps 50-Foot Tree Of Life As Shopper Attraction

This is a 15-meter fiberglass sculpture used as the projection mapping canvas for a permanent attraction at the Robinsons Place Naga shopping mall, in a Philippines city about 400 kms southeast of Manila. The premium mall’s digital art experience is called “Tree of Life” and was put together by Filipino-American artist and landscape architect Jefre Manuel. […]

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Fri, Jun 15, 2018 at 1:18 PM

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Transparent Displays Make Window Shopping Easy

Market Street is one of the highest trafficked streets in the crown jewel of Northern California that is San Francisco. This steady stream of foot traffic usually comes with just as many eyeballs, and so the urban area sees plenty of leading brands showcasing their very best merchandise with their most innovative ad campaigns. […]

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Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 11:46 AM

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16:9: Seven Industries That REALLY NEED Digital Signage

  Guest Post: Michal Lisewski, Merixstudio Modern software technologies such as HTML5 make interactive digital signage relatively cheap. As the first generation of digital natives enters the labor market, the expansion of the use of screens has become a necessity. […]

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Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 9:06 AM

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Technology Is The Key To Brand Loyalty On The Changing High Street

Guest Post: Joe Rabah, RMG Networks Today’s newspapers are awash with daily stories of retailers having to transform their business models from yesteryear to stay afloat as our high streets evolve and customer habits and expectations change. Recent articles discussing the fate of the UK’s Mothercare, Marks & Spencer and House of Fraser are just a few. […]

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Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 8:07 AM

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16:9: Lumipixels Cleverly Marries Motion LED Lighting With Fabric Branding Lightboxes

One of the challenges with being in an industry so long – even before it had a name – is getting jaded and a bit bored. I go to trade shows, like next week’s InfoComm, and mostly shrug. The stuff is amazing, beautiful, brighter, skinnier, lighter, faster … lots of things with “ers” on the end. […]

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Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 7:45 AM

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The Best Omnichannel Retail Experience is an Invisible One

Have you ordered pizza from Dominos recently? If you have, it’s unlikely that you called the nearby store on the phone to place your order. […]

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Wed, May 30, 2018 at 11:42 AM

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16:9 Podcasts – Mitch Goss On Building NYC’s Zero-In As A Genuine Turnkey Digital Signage Business

There are lots of companies out there that call themselves turnkey digital signage solutions providers, but far fewer who can do so with straight faces. A company called Zero-In has been doing just that for the last decade, and has developed a nice book of business doing the whole nine yards of signage work – from creative to deployment and ongoing operational management. […]

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Wed, May 30, 2018 at 2:11 AM

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16:9: Transparent Shop Window LEDs Drive Brand, Foot Traffic At San Francisco Levi’s Flagship

The flagship Levi Strauss & Co. store at Market and 4th Street in San Francisco is using a nice pair of transparent LED screens in the big shop windows to drive the brand and pull people inside. The shop windows are running video pieces  using Reflect’s CMS and two FLEXClear transparent LED video displays from PixelFLEX. […]

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Tue, May 29, 2018 at 3:13 PM

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