Planar has resumed marketing a transparent OLED, about five years after first launching a product and then pulling it because of supply issues from the original manufacturer/supplier. […]
Guest Post: Derek DeWitt, Visix Derek DeWitt Back in December, Senior Business Consultant for Microsoft and co-founder of Techincon, Rashan Dixon, wrote an article for Entrepreneur listing five business trends he thought would continue to rise in 2019. Coming up on the midpoint of the year, we can see that his predictions were pretty spot on. […]
A San Francisco start-up called Firefly that puts digital OOH media screens on the tops of rideshare cars has announced a $30 million series A funding round, which is on top of a $21 million round late last year. Firefly offers a supplemental revenue stream to rideshare drivers in return for affixing a hyper-local, geo-fenced digital sign on the cartop. […]
The company behind the Google Chrome OS-centric digital signage solution Skykit has announced a $6.5 million funding round intended to drive what it calls an aggressive growth plan. Minneapolis-based Agosto Holdings, which describes itself as a cloud services and development company, secured funds from Bridge Bank and SG Credit Partners. […]
LA-based digital OOH network operator WOW Media has started running snarky, satirical headlines from The Onion on big digital boards around the sprawling city. “We’re always looking for a new way to get our content in front of our clients and partners in the entertainment industry. […]
Atlanta-based CMS software company Visix is going to showcase new a new voice-activated wayfinding application in a couple of weeks at its InfoComm 2019 booth in Orlando. “This is the next step in audience interaction,” says Jill Perardi, creative services manager for Visix. “People have embraced Voice User Interface technologies like Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant, and are eager for more. […]
A new interactive digital artwork at the Barbican in London uses camera sensors and a big digital display to generate unique digital forms of people who visit an exhibit called AI: More Than Human. At the entrance to the exhibition, the visitor is greeted by a screen which acts as a mirror, reflecting a unique synthetic form. […]
Guest Post: Christina Condomaros, Yodeck Christina Condomaros Smaller screens for digital signage probably isn’t something you think of as effective. I mean, bigger is better, right? But smaller screens could be the perfect showstoppers – and money makers. […]
Guest Post: Aaron Cheesman , D3 Dynamic Digital Displays Aaron Cheesman The video industry has gone through monumental changes over the years. However, for a long time, the focus was on producing thinner screens and higher resolutions. […]
Capital Networks’ Kelly Smith and the Toronto chapter of the Digital Signage Federation have organized the second in what is planned as a running series of breakfast mixers. The June 6th event is focused on Digital In Dining, and features people from McDonalds and Aramark, as well as iGotcha Media. The event is out in Mississauga at Samsung’s Canadian HQ. […]
There’s no real revelation in content being updated or triggered based on open source data, but a new DOOH campaign goes the next step with a campaign for Piri allergy relief products that only goes live when pollen counts pass a certain threshold. […]
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and ad agency M/H VCCP have launched Runaway Train 25, a cross-industry initiative that sees more than 450 digital billboards and transit screens raising awareness ahead of Saturday’s National Missing Children’s Day. […]
Hat Tip Kevin Cosbey/Arrow for spotting this project … This is flat-out astonishing – a museum that used AI deep fake technology to bring a dead artist back to virtual life at the museum built in his honor. The Dali Museum in St. […]
Canadians all know Cineplex as the dominant movie theater chain in that country, and the Toronto-based company has also been expanding its reach, in recent years, into other related lines of business. […]
Here’s another example of how big fine-pitch LED video walls are the 2019 version of 1980s and 90s water features in office tower lobbies. The property owners for 28 Liberty in New York wanted a visual solution that reinvigorated the space and, more to the point, made tenants want to move in and existing ones decide to stay. […]
