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16:9: Daily Star hijacked InLinkUK DOOH Wi-Fi stations in London to call sex lines for free

As Amscreen’s Simon Sugar points out in the tweet below, it’s not like the people behind the smart cities digital OOH interactive screens in the UK didn’t get clues from a sister installation in New York. The InLinkUK interactive stations that are replacing some phone booths around London can easily, it seems, be hijacked to dial up and blast phone sex calls for all passersby to hear. […]

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Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 6:47 PM

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16:9: Tesco Adds Endless Aisle Interactive Stations In Largest UK Stores

Kiosk manufacturer Evoke Creative has announced a nice deal to build and rollout indoor and outdoor interactive kiosks for Tesco, the biggest grocer in the UK. The indoor units from the Liverpool company will go into some 140 Tesco Extra stores, with another 30 units have been commissioned for using outside of the stores. […]

Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 8:27 AM

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16:9: Local UK Tourism Council Builds Digital Attractions Stand

A project doesn’t need to be big and expensive to be well done and effective. Here’s a simple but well executed tourism application that adds digital to an attractions brochure rack. The borough of Pendle in the UK created a visitor information point in the café area of retailer Boundary Mill’s flagship store outlet, based in Colne, Lancashire. […]

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Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 9:21 AM

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Projects: Selfridge’s Takes Its Staff Communications Digital

This is a look inside how digital signage is being used for internal communications by iconic UK retailer Selfridges. AV integrator AVMI has put a high-impact LED wall at the London offices’ “Team Tunnel” and a network of over 30 Samsung Smart Signage screens at Selfridges office and retail locations in Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester and London. […]

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Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 9:21 AM

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Projects: Sunset Countdown Focal Point Of UK Grocer’s Summer Digital OOH Campaign

This is a simple but effective use of data to drive home an emotion in a Digital OOH ad campaign- a countdown clock for UK sunsets. The campaign, for the grocer Sainsbury’s, uses live sunset data for local areas associated with major commuter rail stations that have large ad screens. […]

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Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 7:37 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Robin Carlisle, Framestore Labs

Robin Carlisle is Global Head of Creative for Framestore Labs, a UK-based creative technology shop that specializes in making beautiful and cinematic real-time visuals. Framestore Labs is part of a larger company, Framestore, that has been doing amazing visuals for years. […]

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Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 12:43 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Steve Rickless, Tripleplay

Steve Rickless, one of the founders of the UK firm Tripleplay, believes likes a lot of people that technology is converging, and thinks his company is in a good spot because it has already converged its technology. […]

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Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 12:20 AM

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Projects: UK Theatre Lights Up Big Stretched Displays At Entryway

Here’s an example of how those stretched 86-inch LG LCD panels are being used away from trade show booths and in the real world – a pair of them gracing the entryway to a refurbished theatre in Dorset, England. The screens are running custom promotional content for the theatre, including advertising for productions, vendors and show times information. Sara St. […]

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Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 8:33 AM

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UK AV Distributor Sahara Presentations Group Acquires Digital Signage CMS Firm Sedao

UK-based AV distributor Sahara Presentations Group has acquired Sedao, the UK digital signage software platform and services company it had been selling. ‘This is a great acquisition for the Sahara Presentations Group,” says Shaun Marklew, Sales and Marketing Director of Sahara. […]

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Wed, May 17, 2017 at 8:39 AM

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16:9: Skoda Nudges UK Getaways On Digital Bilboards, Using GPS, Real-Time Traffic Data

Here’s a simple, relatively easy example of how brands are using real-time data to make their digital OOH advertising more contextually relevant. The Czech Republic automaker Skoda is marketing a new SUV in the UK by updating ads across 10 different out of home networks with journey times from the ad poster location to four specific tourism locales. […]

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Wed, May 10, 2017 at 4:49 PM

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Projects: Digital Signage A Big Part Of London Whitechapel Diner’s Facelift

My first reaction to a “£500,000 interior design investment” in a London dessert diner, based on the supplied photos, is wondering why they couldn’t have a put just a little of that big budget into level tables. The poor woman’s food might slide right off if she doesn’t keep a fork firmly in place. […]

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Thu, May 4, 2017 at 8:27 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Hugh Coghill-Smith, ONELAN

ONELAN has been around the digital signage market for many, many years, but the company is far better known on its UK home turf, and in other parts of the world, than it is in North America. That’s changing, as ONELAN starts to build into the US and Canada with a really well respected software and hardware solution, as well as what Hugh Coghill-Smith calls the wrap. […]

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Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 12:10 AM

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16:9: Four Touchscreen Software Predictions For 2017

Guest Post: Richard Murton, Display Technology Touchscreens are now a part of everyday life through their use in mobiles, tablets and at retail outlets, but it is a technology that is still evolving in an attempt to meet the needs of users and businesses. […]

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Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 3:47 PM

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16:9: Guinness Uses Real-Time Data On Digital Posters To Pull People To Pubs For Huge Rugby Match

If you have an Irish pub in England, or pretty much anywhere, the next couple of days are going to be crazy. Today, of course, is St. Paddy’s Day, and the real Irish and the mobs of wannabes are guzzling Guinness and Harp and, yuck, green beer. […]

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Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 9:37 AM

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Projects: UK Firm Puts 1.5mm LED Wall In Office Reception Area

High-end retailers evidently aren’t the only end-users opting in on pricey hi-rez direct view LED walls, instead of narrow-bezel LCD walls, in their signature locations. Here’s a commercial property company in the UK putting in a 1.5 mm wall in the reception area of its head office, near Victoria Station in London. […]

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Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 8:59 AM

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