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Diversified In Software Partnership For Workplace Digital Signage

16:9 could be an endless supply of re-purposed PR about new industry partnerships, but I read and  then ignore most of that news because experience and analytics show readers aren’t much interested either. However, when the biggest digital signage-focused integrator in North America announces a partnership for workplace communications, I get more interested. […]

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Tue, May 21, 2019 at 9:09 AM

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16:9: Fitness App Tona’s Leaderboard Digital Signage Gamifies Gyms

Here’s a nice example of that whole omnichannel thing actually being put to use – an all-encompassing fitness app called Tona for individuals and gyms that spans everything smartphone screens to leaderboards everyone sees. […]

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Mon, May 20, 2019 at 10:36 AM

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16:9: Some Digital Signage Audiences Are Genuinely Engaged, But Here’s How To Deal With Flirters And Zombies

Guest Post: Mike Kilian, Mvix Many companies are drawn towards using digital signage because it is an effective “mass communication medium” which allows dynamic and frequent content updates. Even though delivering dynamic, targeted content is the hallmark of the digital signage platform, effective communication requires a deep understanding of the audiences and their preferences. […]

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Mon, May 20, 2019 at 10:07 AM

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Five Ways Internal Communication Managers Can Use Digital Signage To Create Informed, Engaged Workplace Cultures

Guest Post: Samuel Mekonen, Seenspire You go by many names: internal communication manager, people’s experience manager, chief diversity officer, or even chief heart officer. […]

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Mon, May 20, 2019 at 9:29 AM

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16:9: The Video Analytics For Digital Signage Sky Is Not Falling

There is much fuss out there about the San Francisco Board of Supervisors voting 8-1 to approve  outlawing the use of facial recognition software or retention of information obtained through facial recognition software systems. The ordinance still has to clear a second hurdle next week before it would be law. […]

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Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:23 PM

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74-LCD Video Wall Energizes JP Morgan’s Hong Kong HQ Lobby

This is a very nice, narrow-bezel LCD video wall in the lobby of J.P. Morgan’s Hong Kong offices. The wall had to somehow fit well in an elevator lobby area that was all of 12-feet wide. […]

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Fri, May 17, 2019 at 12:07 PM

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OLED Is A Thing, And Other Thoughts From SID Display Week

I pulled the ripcord this afternoon after 2.5+ days at Display Week. My brain hurt, and the symposium sessions in the afternoon looked terrifyingly technical. […]

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Wed, May 15, 2019 at 7:06 PM

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Dan Hagen Of 10Net, On Building Digital Signage In The Pacific Northwest

Dan Hagen is a relatively young guy, and a bit of an Energizer Bunny. I know of him as the 10net guy from Vancouver, but I was surprised to learn in a conversation that he has been involved in digital signage since before it was called digital signage. He was a funding founder of Mercury Online Solutions, which in the late 90s and early 2000s was a big player in this business. […]

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Wed, May 15, 2019 at 1:00 AM

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Screenfeed Adds Full Customization Capabilities To Its News Feeds

News feeds from data providers have typically come in one of two ways: raw XML or other feeds that could be flowed into templates; or pre-designed, finished feeds with the look and feel already sorted out. Now Minneapolis-based Screenfeed has added new capabilities that allow top-to-bottom customizability for their customers. […]

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Tue, May 14, 2019 at 1:27 AM

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16:9: Spain’s TRISON Acquires UK-based Digital Signage Agency Beaver Group

Big pro AV news out of Spain and the UK earlier today, with the TRISON Group announcing its  acquisition of Beaver Group, which has done many of the better QSR and retail digital signage jobs in the UK in recent years. TRISON is Europe’s biggest digital signage-focused integrator – kinda like Diversified, but in Galician Spain instead of New Jersey. […]

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Mon, May 13, 2019 at 5:35 PM

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16:9: Walmart Opens AI-Driven Intelligent Retail Lab Outside NYC

Walmart has started testing computer vision and AI in a big way at an “Intelligent Retail Lab” lab on Long Island, outside New York City. The Walmart Neighborhood Market in Levittown, N.Y. has 1,000s of overhead cameras tracking the state and movement in the store aisles, as well as standard and interactive digital signage screens explaining the Lab and infrastructure. […]

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Mon, May 6, 2019 at 12:08 AM

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16:9: DOOH Network NewAd Acquired By Canadian Telecoms And Media Giant Bell

Montreal-based out of home media company NewAd has been acquired by Bell Media, the Canadian telecoms and media conglomerate. NewAd built its business putting out of home posters in bars and restaurants, competing across Canada with another Montreal company, Zoom. […]

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Sun, May 5, 2019 at 10:22 PM

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16:9: Company That Rents Physical Artworks To Businesses Adds Digital Signage Capabilities

A company that provides physical works of art as a service to property owners and companies has added digital capability, providing a presumably less costly alternative to custom creative for things like large format video walls. […]

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Fri, May 3, 2019 at 8:39 AM

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The Brave New World of Location Based Marketing

In December 1903, in the sand dunes of Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, the Wright Brothers made the worlds first powered aircraft flights. By 1923, we saw the first transcontinental flight; by 1933, the first solo flight around the world; 1939, the first jet plane; and in 1947, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. […]

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Thu, May 2, 2019 at 2:19 PM

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16:9: It’s 2019 And We’re Still Doing Carved-Up Screens???

My calendar confirms it is indeed 2019, and not 2009 – which makes it somewhat mind-wobbling that there are still start-up media companies touting an ad model for out of home environments based on the totally different dynamics of web advertising. […]

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Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:37 AM

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