Reminder: Mixer Tonight In Downtown Toronto December 6, 2016 by Super User A reminder for locals that Andrea Varrone, who runs Digital Signage Expo, is up in Toronto today and hosting a mixer for the digital signage crowd. The DSE Huddle runs from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Rocker Room of the Hard Rock Café, which overlooks Yonge Dundas Square, a more diminutive version of Times Square. Huddles …
Spotify’s Digital OOH Campaign Mined Listener Data To Create Snarky, Fun Ads November 30, 2016 by Super User Via Adweek … You gotta like this clever, ironic digital OOH campaign the streaming music provider Spotify has started running in several markets in the US, UK, France and Germany. The company’s in-house creative team looked at listener data and crafted a bunch of messages that take playful pokes at some of their listeners. The …
The Dawn Of Digital Signage For The Dead November 29, 2016 by Super User Hat tip to Gary Kayye for writing about this recently … What if a service at a funeral home wasn’t a dark, deeply uncomfortable experience most people just wanted to get through? What if it was more of a celebration – that used technology to tell the story of a loved one’s life? That’s the premise behind …
Harrods Fills 6-Level Grand Entrance Hall With Fine Pitch LED Ad Walls November 24, 2016 by Super User Via The Drum The British luxury retailer Harrods has installed a series of large, fine pitch LED video installations that greet shoppers at every level in the store’s iconic six-storey Grand Entrance hall. There are 12 LED screens in various configurations at points in the six floors of the department store’s escalator atrium. As reported in The Drum, the …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Phil Lenger, Show And Tell November 23, 2016 by Super User Phil Lenger of Show and Tell is a busy guy, but he slowed down long enough to sit recently for a chat in his company’s New York offices, near Penn Station. He even offered a sip or two from one of the many, many bottles of seriously good bourbon he has stocked in the corner …
Start-up Puts Seat-Back Digital OOH Ads In Uber, Lyft Cars November 21, 2016 by Super User Via MediaPost A company called Vugo is the latest start-up to try putting ad screens in the back seats of cars for hire, but with the twist that the vehicles are not taxis in a fleet, but owner-operated ride-share cars working for Uber and Lyft. The company told MediaPost it has 11,000 ride-sharing vehicles in Los Angeles …
Red Ink: CRI Down $3.9M, So Far, For 2016 November 21, 2016 by Super User The latest quarterly financials are out for Creative Realities, Inc., and the latest iteration of the company has lost yet more money. “We do not currently generate positive cash flow,” the company has reported in its 10-Q SEC filing. “Our operational costs have been greater than sales generated to date. As of September 30, 2016, …
See All The Top Digital Display Installs In NYC With This Free Tour Guide App November 21, 2016 by Super User Longtime New York-based digital signage design and solution shop Show And Tell has put together a smartphone app for iOS or Android that allows digital signage nerds and newbies to get a guided tour of many of the best installations in the city. The free Digital Design Tour app provides location mapping, visuals and details …
Skykit Releases Free Planning Guide For Digital Signage Projects November 21, 2016 by Super User Minneapolis-based software firm Agosto, a big Google Apps partner, branched into the digital signage market a couple of years ago through an in-house spinoff called Skykit – a CMS built around Chrome. The company has been an aggressive marketer lately, and recently came out with something I’ve not really seen before – a free and …
Sysview Must Have Liked Signagelive’s Website So Much The Company Just Went Ahead And Used It November 20, 2016 by Super User A mostly incomprehensible press release from a Chinese hardware and software company out of Shenzhen, called Sysview, sent me clicking through to the company website on the weekend, to try to figure out what they were going on about. I got off that original goal pretty quickly, though, as I starting clicking around and thinking, “Hmmm …
