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16:9: The Digital QSR Future Is Now … But Ya Gotta Like Quinoa

A new San Francisco eatery called Eatsa has gone as far as I have ever seen integrating digital into its customer experience – actually removing visible staffing from the mix. Ordering is all done by tablets, payment is all by plastic, a big video wall promotes the overall product and lets customers know order status, and transparent LCDs double as doors to cubbies where you food arrives. […]

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Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 2:43 PM

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16:9: Original Community Content Focus of New LA Digital OOH Network

A Southern California video production company has taken over screens in McDonald’s locations throughout Los Angeles, starting a digital OOH network that tries a very different spin on dining area screen networks. […]

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Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 1:37 PM

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New ComQi Paper Looks At Signage ROI Behind The QSR Counter

White papers and position papers on the ROI from QSR menu boards represent pretty well-covered ground, but the digital signage software firm ComQi has a pretty exhaustive piece out that goes into an area that’s received far less attention – the stuff on the other side of the menu boards. […]

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Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:38 PM

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16:9: Uniqlo Powers Digital Selfies Using In-Store Screens & WeChat

  Via AdAge The Japanese apparel retailer used in-store displays to interact with the mobile app WeChat to drive its brand in a recent promotion focused on the Chinese market. […]

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Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 1:50 PM

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Brazilian QSR Bob’s Targeting 1,000 BroadSign-Powered Menu Systems

I was asked by a contact recently why there were not more North American companies active in the South American market, and my honest answer was that I didn’t really know, but suspected much of that had to do with companies up here not knowing the size of the opportunities, and the scale of the challenges with wholly unfamiliar markets like Brazil and Colombia. […]

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Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 8:52 AM

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16:9: Book Comes To Life In Silicon Valley Mall Display

Speciality display maker Volanti Displays, based just south of Silicon Valley, teamed up recently with a nearby luxe shopping mall – Westfield Valley Fair – on a very different digital window used to promote the Michael Kors fashion line. […]

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Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 11:35 PM

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16:9: Apple Reported To Be Dumping iPads As In-Store Smart Signs

Photo: Macstories The Apple-centric blog 9to5Mac is reporting that Apple’s impending store refresh will include a change in how it handles merchandising and product information. “With this Apple Store refresh next week,” the blog reports, “Apple will be pulling these aging iPad 2s from most of its stores. […]

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Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 12:39 PM

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Macy’s Testing Digital Fitting Room Service As Foil To Online Shopping

Via Bloomberg A former Amazon exec’s startup is running a test in a Manhattan Beach, CA Macy’s that mashes up digital screens, mobile and some old-school warehouse ideas to rethink the shopping experience. […]

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Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:39 AM

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Projects: iGotcha Serves Interactive Tennis App For Canadian Bank

Customers at select National Bank of Canada branches are getting a taste of pro tennis this month, through a mobile to digital signage interactive promotion put together by Montreal’s iGotcha Media. […]

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Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:59 AM

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16:9: New IoT Density Sensor Opens Up More Possibilities For Real-Time Messaging

Via Engadget If you follow tech writing, you won’t scroll too far on any site before you run into an Internet of Things piece. It’s a massive subject, but here’s an IoT gadget you can quickly get your head around, as it might apply to digital signage and digital OOH. […]

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Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 2:05 PM

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Projects: Wayfinding Stations As Art In Miami’s Aventura Mall

The very upscale Aventura Mall in Miami has added a set of seven interactive directories to help shoppers find their way around the 2.7 million-square-foot facility. There’s nothing all that new about digital wayfinding in malls, but what’s distinct here are custom enclosures designed by architects, by a gloriously named Brooklyn, NY  firm, Snarkitecture. […]

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Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 6:03 AM

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16:9: US FDA Pushes Back Menu Labeling Requirements By Year

Hat tip to Raffi Vartian at Signagelive for flagging this … The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has postponed by a year federal menu labeling requirements, with the FDA saying it needs to provide more clarification on rules and regulations that are not necessarily being warmly greeted by all affected parties. […]

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Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:43 PM

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Projects: Retailer Target Debuts Digital-Filled IoT Open House

American mass merchandise retailer Target has opened a connected home store, immediately below a full store, at a San Francisco shopping center – with the aim of putting all the Internet of Things digital thermostats and door locks and so on in context. […]

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Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 2:19 PM

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16:9: Menuat Puts Creative First With Menu-Board Offer

I got into a yelling match at Infocomm last month with a guy named Jeff Charette, CEO of a cool little startup called Menuat. We were hollering at each other, from a foot away, because we were at a big vendor’s networking party and the band was louder, I swear, than Metallica – even though they were playing Top 40. It was friendly and hopeless. […]

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Thu, Jul 9, 2015 at 8:35 AM

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Meet Veronica, Revel’s Digital Mannequin

Ted Rosenbaum from Fargo, ND-based RevelDigital called the other day to tell me about Veronica, a digital mannequin the CMS and solutions company is using to showcase its capabilities. It has touch, beacons, pattern detection, NFC and on and on, all pretty much running off a slinky silver fashion mannequin. […]

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Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 12:49 AM

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