The UK cloud-based signage software firm embedsignage is the latest company to add support for ChromeOS devices. The player, available off Google’s Chrome store, will run on Chromeboxes or the more recently introduced Chromebits. […]
Nanonation CEO Bryan Fairfield Raising Nebraska is a 25,000 square foot, interactive digital-heavy exhibit on the state fairgrounds that’s designed to help visitors better understand and appreciate that state’s big industry, its advances, and the impact it has locally and globally. […]
People who know me will be amused as hell by the notion of me attending a fashion show. But I have been to several in recent years, because I have a nephew who is at Ryerson’s fashion school in Toronto. The 4th year students have a major year-end show that attracts a lot of fashion industry people looking for new talent, so the event is seen and run as a big deal. […]
There’s a really good blog on retail design I monitor through its regular tweets – with me looking mostly for featured projects that use digital displays in the design. I’ve been watching the feed for many weeks now – and seen scores of projects pop up, from around the world – and almost none of them have digital displays in them. […]
Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix There are many powerful arguments to be made for using digital meeting and conference room signs for shared spaces in any organization – whether it’s an office, healthcare facility, conference center, college campus or K-12 school district. 1 – Integrative Room signs bring your calendar right to your door, and your door to your calendar. […]
Guest Post: Alan Brawn, Brawn Consulting Believe it or not, digital signage is seen each day by over 70% of the population. Research shows that we spend an average of 8 hours per day in front of a screen of some type, including televisions, computers, tablets, smartphones, or increasingly… digital signage. […]
Sephora has opened up a digital-heavy, small footprint shop in Paris that builds screens into the visual environment and uses different interactive tools to let shoppers get at what’s not physically stocked at the location. […]
Touchscreen room sign. Source: Visix Anyone who sells digital signage solutions, or is charged with putting together a digital signage plan for their organization, knows it is not always the easiest sell. The benefits are definitely there, but they’re often a little soft and elusive. […]
One of the things that has bothered me for years about digital signage product marketing is the heavy, almost maniacal use of terms like engagement, experience and immersive by some companies. […]
This is the new VIP Executive Lounge Experience at Kuwait Petroleum Corporation, that country’s biggest national oil company. The company, which has annual revenues of something like $250 billion, wanted a space for execs and guests that was luxurious and comfy, but also reinforced the company and brand through visuals. […]
Guest Post, Richard Fortin, ITES Media Richard Fortin The digital signage industry has been growing quickly in the last few years. Big players in retail and large companies have both adopted this method of communication. It is, regardless, a fairly young industry that evolves rapidly and this creates misconceptions. […]
Here’s the audio track (below … click on the red Soundcloud arrow to get started) for that webinar I did Friday with the media solutions folks at Hughes. I joined Senior Marketing Manager Curtis Campbell and Mike Tippets, the VP of Media Solutions at Hughes, to share our collective thoughts on what we saw a couple of weeks back at Digital Signage Expo. […]
A private co-ed school in the Brisbane/Gold Coast part of Australia has turned on what it calls the Wonder Room – a specially-kitted classroom that features a five-panel multi-touch video used by both students and teachers. […]
The Toronto company that is marketing a way for companies to bring forward revenue from digital signage SaaS deals is doing another webinar this Thursday on how the arrangement works. The pitch from the SaaS Lending Group, which is part of Alliance Financing, is debt financing in the form of a term loan that gets tied to thew recurring revenue stream for a long-term software licensing deal. […]
A New York City start-up that combines digital OOH screens and wall-mounted vending machines got a big PR bump and cash infusion the other night by cutting a deal on the US reality TV show Shark Tank. Vengo Labs co-founders Brian Shimmerlik and Steven Bofill wangled a $2 million deal with a pair of the show’s “Shark” investors, Kevin O’Leary and Lori Greiner. […]
