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Tripleplay Does Free IPTV Upgrade For UK Hotel Housing NHS Medical Workers

UK CMS and solutions company Tripleplay specializes in signage and guest room TV solutions for the hospitality sector – primarily hotels but also sports and entertainment venues.   So the company saw a nice opportunity to help out by upgrading a hotel, located next to one of the most famous sports pitches on the planet, with top-flight in room TV services. […]

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Wed, May 6, 2020 at 9:56 AM

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16:9: UK’s NowSignage Releases New Tools For Retail’s New COVID-19 Norms

It’s only logical when reality drops a bucket of lemons on your business, you make lemonade. I’m starting to see numerous digital signage solutions and software companies coming up with products, features and functionality tied to the new norms of public activity. We’ve seen dispensers, line management and thermal sensors to read temperatures. […]

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Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 1:58 PM

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UK DOOH Startup In Shambles After Founders Scrap With Investors, Admit Cloning IP

It is as difficult to keep up with digital out of home buying platforms as it is tracking digital signage CMS software companies, so I don’t feel all that bad about knowing absolutely nothing about the UK startup Bidooh. […]

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Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 8:15 AM

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Ada Analysis Shows UK Out of Home Population Movement Plateaus During Week Three of Covid-19 Lockdown

Latest data from Ada, Talon’s Out of Home data management platform, shows the dramatic change in population movement during March has now plateaued in April as the nation’s behaviour begins to stabilise. The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has already brought about rapid and significant change to the way people live their lives. […]

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Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 12:25 PM

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UK Out of Home Says Thank You to Key Workers on Behalf of a Grateful Britain (DSConnection)

London, UK (April 3, 2020) – Today, the UK Out of Home industry has come together to launch ‘Grateful Britain’, a nationwide DOOH campaign to pass on the nation’s gratitude to NHS staff and other key workers that continue to work on the frontline of the fight against coronavirus. […]

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Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 11:57 AM

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16:9: “Landmark” UK Research Suggests That For DOOH, The Right Message, Place, Moment Thing Really Does Work

Good data is sometimes hard to come by as marketers jealously, and somewhat logically, guard the research they funded. But here’s a lot of very useful data from a landmark study in the UK about Digital OOH advertising effectiveness. […]

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Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 12:32 PM

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16:9: New COVID-19 PSA Campaign Cleverly Reminds People It’s Not Great To See Each Other

This is a terrific, super-simple media public service media campaign developed in the UK to steadily reinforce to people in the UK and globally to continue social distancing and stay at home unless they need to get out for essentials like groceries and medicine. The campaign was organized by Fiona FitzGibbon, Founder of UK-based Diversiffi Media. […]

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Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 10:48 AM

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16:9: Global Shipments Of Narrow-Bezel LCDs Growing Despite Rise Of LED Video Wall Alternatives

UK-based research firm Informa is suggesting narrow-bezel LCD video wall displays are still relevant and attractive despite many to most display manufacturers starting to heavily promote direct view LED as a new alternative. […]

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Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 7:00 PM

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Virtual Dining Car Used To Entertain, Stimulate At UK Seniors’ Residence

This is a great little project for a seniors’ care home in Bradford, England, up in West Yorkshire. To entertain and mentally stimulate mostly shut-in seniors, the care home designed and built a faux dining car on a train, with digital displays used as “windows” that show the passing countryside. […]

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Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 11:01 AM

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A Different Take On The LED Waterfall Visual Trick, For Stand At UK Trade Show

The falling water thing on LED video walls has been done, a lot, but here’s a take on that visual that’s a bit different, and nicely integrated with a brand and strategy. It was the main feature of a stand for a bathroom fixtures (I think) company at a trade show earlier this week in Birmingham, in the UK. […]

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Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 2:24 PM

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16:9: UK Firm Touts Planned Rollout Of 3,500 DOOH Screens Embedded In Hand Dryers

Start-ups have been trying to make toilets in restaurants and bars a digital OOH advertising environment for 15 years or more, and as the saying goes, everything old is new again. […]

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Mon, Feb 3, 2020 at 12:11 PM

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16:9: NowSignage Unveils Hardware-Agnostic Digital Signage CMS

Manchester, UK’s NowSignage has announced what it touts as the “world’s first digital signage platform to become truly hardware agnostic through a single code base.” The argument is that NowSignage users can now load their digital signage content on to any screen hardware “without having to compromise on security, reliability or performance. […]

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Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 8:57 AM

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Billboard For BBC’s Dracula Uses Simple Lighting Effect To Create Its Wow Moment

A reminder that just being digital isn’t going to make a media campaign successful. Being clever matters. This is an analog billboard in the UK for the BBC series Dracula, which I THINK just started as well on Netflix in the US and Canada. […]

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Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 11:54 AM

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16:9: High Profile UK Smart Cities DOOH Network Can’t Pay Its Bills

The company that won the deal to mimic New York and put so-called smart city display kiosks on main streets around the UK has run into financial trouble, entering into what the Brits term “administration.” That means the company can’t pay its bills and has a third-party involved trying to get it out of an insolvent state. […]

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Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 7:10 PM

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16:9: Canada’s Cineplex Acquired By UK-based Cineworld

The Canadian entertainment giant Cineplex, which has a very active digital signage and digital OOH business unit, has a tentative deal to be acquired by UK-based Cineworld Group. With more than 11,200 screens around the globe (including a bunch of them as Regal Cinemas in the US), the proposed transaction would create one of the world’s largest cinema companies. […]

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Mon, Dec 16, 2019 at 8:33 AM

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