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. […]
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. […]
Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation has for many years had a dedicated digital signage team – both tech and creative – running its screen networks across 19 slots and casino sites across the province. The team work with its longtime software vendor Capital Networks on a very different, very clever twist to casino messaging – a live prize draw focused around the screens. […]
The Digital Place-Based Advertising Association, aka the DPAA, has announced its speakers and agenda for the the annual Video Everywhere conference in New York, this year on Nov. 3rd. […]
Scala has issued a major version release of its Scala Enterprise digital signage platform, saying Release 11 adds a pile of speed and performance enhancements. In all, the company based outside Philadelphia says the new release has 25 new features and 265 enhancements. […]
If I wandered into work at ConeXus World this morning, and a colleague let me know the company just got acquired by Creative Realities, I’d probably head for whatever local bar was open that early, to order a very stiff drink. And it wouldn’t be a celebratory drink, since everything my new masters touch seems to turn red. Creative Realities, Inc. […]
Anybody who has sold digital signage product and had conversations with brand marketers has probably had rent-versus-buy questions thrown at them from people who like what they saw, but only needed it for a few weeks, not a few years. That’s stopped many projects and ideas in their tracks, because the options to rent a solution have been very, very limited. […]
PHOTO CREDIT: NATIONAL POST If you fly into Toronto via the little island airport just off downtown, it’s great in just about every way. Handy. Great view coming in and leaving. […]
My two-day micro-vacation is done and I am back in airports again – Minneapolis-St. Paul at the moment. Spotted this at some men’s shop on the main retail concourse post-security: Two screens in the flanking entry windows, each showing the website, and not even in kiosk mode so all the header and footer crap, and mouse arrow, show. […]
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. […]
LA-based Enplug has launched what it calls the industry’s first Public App Market – the highlight of the signage content and solutions company’s upcoming software release, called DisplayOS 4.0. […]
A Reno, Nevada company called Directable has announced it is now marketing a digital signage solution that has been tested and approved for use with Sony’s new line of Android TVs. […]
The Source Opens Newly Designed Interactive Store at Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall (CNW Group/The Source) Canadian gadget retailer The Source – once known as Radio Shack up here – has opened its first experiential format store in an ongoing effort to “reinvent” the brand and shopping experience. […]
I’m very pleased to say the line-up is now fully set for DSrupted, which is set for Sept. 16th in Toronto. We’ve got a great line-up and a big highlight, I suspect, will be a talk by Martin Porter, Senior VP and Group Director for Posterscope, one of the biggest digital OOH agencies out there. […]
Guest Post: Freddie Laker, Kairos Stand at the counter in any fast food restaurant or cafe. Somewhere up in front of you there will be a menu displayed. In some places, it might be very amateurish, maybe even handwritten. […]
