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16:9: Video: LCD Shelf Label Strips At Gatwick Duty Free Drive 40%-50% Sales Lift

A post the other day referenced shelf-edge display strips in a set of chiller fridges in the U.S., with my covering comment that I’d seen that sort of thing in trade shows but wondered if there were real-world deployments. That one was using LED strips. This one – at World Duty Free in London’s Gatwick airport – uses LCD strips. […]

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Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 10:36 AM

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Digital Signage Awards Extends Submission Deadline To Nov. 10th

It seems like every digital signage awards program out there has a bit of a rolling deadline for submissions, and the UK-based Digital Signage Awards program is no exception. The official deadline is today, but organizer Matthew Davies has let me know it has been extended 10 days based on requests from companies. […]

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Tue, Oct 31, 2017 at 9:10 AM

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16:9: Audi’s Digital OOH Campaign In UK Matches Billboard Ads To Road Conditions

This is an interesting twist on using APIs and public data to serve up contextually relevant digital OOH ads on roadside displays – matching conditions to the assistive technology an automaker offers to deal with those conditions. […]

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Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 8:36 AM

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London Creative Shop Opens Deep Black, OLED-Filled Showroom

This the new showroom of the London creative studio Projection Artworks, which includes several LG OLED displays. There’s nothing all that exciting about companies have showrooms, but I note this because of the smart decision to place the OLEDs on a piano black wall. […]

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Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 8:18 AM

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16:9: UK Firm Touts The Fairest Of All Magic Mirrors

Probably like most people, I tend to think a mirror is a mirror, and more particularly as a digital signage guy, I assumed a mirror display is just a display with any old mirror glass bonded to the face of the LCD. Well, yes and no. Turns out there’s a lot to mirrors. […]

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Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 8:20 AM

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16:9: UK’s Screen Kinetics Launches Low-Cost Digital Signage Content Shop

The suburban London, UK design studio Screen Kinetics has opened an online store where digital signage network operators can buy and download canned and editable template video content pieces for as little as $37 USD. […]

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Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 11:28 PM

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16:9: IKEA’s New Sheffield Store Includes Tidy Digital Menu And Promo System

This is the tidy set of menu displays IKEA has at its food service counter in the newly opened store in Sheffield, UK. The displays were put in by Beaver Group and run that solutions provider’s “signage.ninja” software, which I THINK is a front-end gateway with Scala under the hood. […]

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Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:55 AM

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New Lloyds Flagship Branch Reimagines High Street Banking In UK

UK-based Lloyds Bank has just opened a new flagship branch in Manchester – full of tech and customer comforts – that’s positioned as a re-imagined approach to high street banking. […]

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Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 3:54 PM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Neil Farr, Acquire Digital

Being a best-kept secret in an industry can be deadly for a company, but it’s worked out OK for Neil Farr and his Leicester, England company Working Solutions, which trades under the brand Acquire Digital. For 20 years, the company has been developing a meaty, diverse software platform that will do all the core aspects of digital signage, but also allows for a lot of customization. […]

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Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 12:05 AM

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16:9: Real-Time Data On UK Billboards Reminds Traffic-Jammed Motorists They Should’ve Taken Train

Virgin Trains launched a dead-simple digital OOH campaign in the UK this week that very effectively uses real-time data to tell motorists crawling along choked motorways that’d they’d likely have been far wiser to take a train. […]

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Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 4:14 PM

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How Interactive Digital Signage Enhance Customer Experiences

Guest Post: Richard Murton, Display Technology These days, the importance of engaging with customers is widely recognized – as is the ever-increasing difficulty of doing so. The simple fact of the matter is that customers are becoming highly expert at deploying their own, internal “anti-spam” filters, to deal with all the calls on their attention coming at them from all directions. […]

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Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 7:54 AM

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Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: David Douglas-Beveridge, SmartContent.TV

If you spend any time clicking around the internet, you are very quickly going to bump into a website that is using a slider – a piece of browser functionality that shifts text, images and video in and out of a web page. […]

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Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 12:09 AM

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UK Town’s Shiny New Digital Information Station Hijacked With Porn Site

Photo Credit: Telford Live Via Telford Live The person behind a local news portal in Telford, UK, northwest of Birmingham, came across one of the combined wayfinding and digital media totems in the town centre, and noticed the community information normally running on the screen had been replaced by a gallery of naughty video thumbnails. […]

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Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 3:39 PM

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16:9: 7-Metre-Wide High Street Window LED Kicks Off New Boot

As seen on Linkedin This is a nice temporary installation in a high street window, in central London, using a one metre tall by seven metres wide fine pitch LED wall to highlight the launch of a new boot by Clarks Shoes. […]

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Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 9:48 AM

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16:9: Will US And Canadian Auto Dealers Follow European Lead And Go Small And Digital?

Time will tell, but you’ve got to think in North America’s larger cities – where in many cases commercial property costs are steep – that some auto dealers will start following the lead of European automakers who are shifting from large footprint dealerships to small retail settings that lean heavily on digital. […]

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Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 2:43 PM

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