Sapient Razorfish Debuts Live Databloom At EU Money Conference June 4, 2018 by Super User Data visualization guru Mike Pell, who spoke a couple of years back at the DSrupted conference I ran in Toronto, talks about the difference between a visualization that is clearly beautiful, versus one that is beautifully clear. The big interactive agency SapientRazorfish is showing a digital installation this week at the Money2020 payments and financial …
Live … from InfoComm, It’s … Oh, It’s Just Dave … June 1, 2018 by Super User I am working out arrangements with a live streaming company that wants to show its capabilities in real-time at InfoComm next week. They offered, and I grabbed the chance to do a live walk-through of whatever seems like the best area to look around at the show – probably where the display companies are located. …
City Agrees To Allow LinkNYC Rollout To Slow Down; Provides More Time To Pay May 30, 2018 by Super User Few observers will be surprised to learn the much-touted NYC smart city rollout of screens replacing payphone boxes is not going as well as envisioned. I don’t get to New York that often, but when I do, I see lotsa black and blue screens dotting the sidewalks. I hear the same from people who live …
License Plate Turned Digital Sign Now Testing On Sacramento Roadways May 30, 2018 by Super User The California start-up that turns motor vehicle license plates into part-time digital signs is now testing in Sacramento, using monochromatic electronic ink screens to show everything from the plate number and registration status to ads for car manufcaturers and stolen vehicle notices for police. The Sacramento Bee reports that the test has the plates looking like regular …
Mall Ad Network Adspace Hires Shazam Exec As New Chief Revenue Officer May 30, 2018 by Super User The NYC-based shopping mall digital out of home ad network Adspace has hired on the former Chief Revenue Officer for Shazam as its new CEO in a bid to drive sales growth across its 300-plus locations. Greg Glenday was instrumental in Shazam’s successful sale to Apple, having taken the music discovery/audio recognition platform into profitability for …
Interactive DOOH Campaign In UK Malls Pairs Lego And Latest Star Wars Flick May 29, 2018 by Super User This is an interactive game that has LEGO tied in with the Uk launch of Solo: A Star Wars Story, the latest in what seems like a steady drip now of Star Wars movies. The “Master the Force” promotion invites shoppers at a couple of UK malls to build the galaxy using on-screen LEGO bricks. The …
Three Ways Digital Signage Software Can Add Value To Digital Out Of Home May 28, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Balaji Kamineni, Zeetaminds An ideal Digital Out Of Home Network irrespective of the size should be managed without any manual human intervention. Once the signage network is set and running, there should be few or no reasons for an operator to go on site. As important as the entire hardware setup, equally important it is …
ZetaDisplay Acquires Norway Digital Signage Solutions Provider Webpro In Ongoing Scandinavian Roll-Up Campaign May 28, 2018 by Super User Consolidation continues in the Scandinavian digital signage ecosystem, with news overnight that ZetaDisplay has acquired Norwegian solutions provider Webpro in a cash deal worth NOK 21 million, which is about $2.5 million USD. The deal also has performance-based supplemental payments. Webpro would have been attractive to the Swedish firm ZetaDisplay, in part, because clients include IKEA …
Put The World Cup On Your Digital Signage Screens With These Feeds May 24, 2018 by Super User The world’s biggest sporting event gets started in a matter of a couple of weeks, and the World Cup squads for many of the footballing countries who qualified are already gathering for training, and generating news. It’s a big deal, and at least some of the subscription and specialty content companies who produce material for …
16:9 Podcasts: Sheldon Silverman On The Opportunity GDPR Presents For Digital OOH Operators May 23, 2018 by Super User If you deal with companies over in Europe, you’ve probably been carpet-bombed lately by email requests to update your subscription settings for things like product announcements. That all owes to something called GPDR, the General Data Protection Regulation that goes into effect in the European Union at the end of this week. You can count …
