LG is seeing what must be one of the largest deployments yet of smart digital signage displays – one or several webOS-based smart commercial screens in more than 2,400 Best Westerns across the US and Canada. […]
I’ve always assumed that smart city information stations located away from a city’s major plazas and thoroughfares would get the living shit beat out of them by tipsy or angry members of the general public. Putting $30,000 (or whatever) units on a sidewalk in Jackson Heights or the Bronx just … seemed … risky. […]
When I was at the NRF show this week in New York, I bumped into numerous industry friends – some who encouraged me to get away from the exhibit venue and head over to the new-ish Nike “House of Innovation” flagship on 5th Avenue. It was mind-blowing, I was told. So I grabbed an Uber with a friend, Raffi Vartian from Diversified, and went over to see what all the fuss was about. […]
LG has started actively marketing the transparent LED film, for windows and architectural glass, it has been demonstrating at trade shows for the last couple of years. The film is only 1.5mm thick (about the thickness of a dime coin) and pushes more than 1,000 nits of brightness in each 668×480 mm panel. Each of those panels has 560 LED pixels set at 24mm pitch. […]
The big selling point for Chive TV is that the streaming channel’s five-hour mix of curated social media content keeps butts in barstools. The Austin, Texas-based company has some 4,000 bar and restaurant venues running content on one or many of their TVs, and about 500 more come on monthly – with a lot of that growth through word of mouth. […]
Guest Post: Geoff Bessin, Intuiface You’ve been careful. You’ve studied all the angles. Thought about your audience, quality content, the project’s goals, hardware. […]
Trends in fast casual and QSR restaurants are having an interesting impact on digital signage usage in that sector, and new technology coming out of San Francisco company is a great example of a company adapting to a changing landscape. […]
This week we look at how the financial services industry is using digital signage in branches, and more to the point, what works and why. Angela Vanderburg is the Digital Practice Lead for Consumer Banking and Retail Financial Services for Q Division, the retail-focused digital strategy consultancy that was launched by STRATACACHE. […]
Microsoft and the US grocer Kroger have partnered on a new connected store product – built around shelf-edge screens and cloud computing – called Retail as a Service (or RaaS). The idea is to streamline shopping for things like groceries, using smart shelves and things like portable scanners. […]
Stumbled via Linkedin on this video post about a retail merchandising solution that puts a tablet on a slider rail in front of a bank of related products. It’s from a San Francisco area company called OnQ that designs and manufactures category displays for retailers and brands. […]
Guest Post: Emily Ingram, Prendi Emily Ingram Consumer expectations are advancing rapidly, and businesses will benefit if they keep up with it. Here’s a look into how McDonald’s have tackled this, to meet our growing expectations. I walked into McDonald’s the other day with a colleague, who went immediately up to the touchscreen kiosk to complete her order. […]
Digital signage systems for parking lots is not the sort of thing that’s going to set the hearts of industry people racing, but there’s reason to pat attention to this use-case because of the way these very utilitarian venues are going smart. […]
The New Year is fast approaching and, as we turn the corner from 2018 to 2019, I want to take a look at trends that are gaining ground in Out of Home. As marketers and media planners know, staying up on the latest technologies and innovations means future-proofing your business and creating a sustainable operation built for success. […]
The dollar goes a bit further in Dayton, Ohio, the head office city of the digital signage solutions company STRATACACHE. The company’s owner and CEO Chris Riegel has purchased a 12-storey office block in the city’s downtown – the Courthouse Plaza building at 10 N. Ludlow Street – for $1.67 million. […]
Screens in medical waiting rooms is one of the most well established kinds of digital OOH media, and there’s been no end of companies that developed networks built around advertising-supported content. […]
