Midwest Grocer Hy-Vee Opts In On Grocery TV Platform For In-Store Media Network; While Appearing To Opt Out On Samsung’s VXT December 18, 2024 by Super User This is intriguing – the Midwest US grocer chain Hy-Vee has announced a partnership with the in-store media network Grocery TV to deploy what it says could be 10,000+ screens across more than 400 stores. That big roll-out comes a bit more than a year after Samsung made a bunch of marketing noise about Hy-Vee using …
McDonald’s Opens Corporate Store In LA That Has No Lobby Or, By The Looks Of It, Drive-Thru Displays December 17, 2024 by Super User QSR giant McDonald’s is testing a store format in LA that has no dine-in area but also appears, at least, to not rely on outdoor drive-thru displays for taking orders. The trade publication QSR picked up on a social media post from a McDonald’s franchisee that points out a new-build prototype format that uses a …
STRATACACHE’S Chris Riegel Details Opportunities And Deadly Sins Of In-Store Retail Media December 16, 2024 by Super User If your company is chasing the retail media networks dream in some fashion – as a vendor, operator or even a brand – this podcast is well worth a listen. It is a nearly one-hour long interview with Chris Riegel of STRATACACHE, talking about the state of retail media networks, its scale and possibilities, and …
Europe’s Largest Indoor Billboard Now Just A Very Large Passenger Information Display December 13, 2024 by Super User The big LED ad display in London’s Euston Station – put in a year ago by DOOH media giant JCDecaux – is now a live travel information board, addressing concerns about the passenger experience being less important than ad revenue. Europe’s largest indoor digital billboard was switched off in October, less than a year after …
Final Thoughts From DSE 2024, And Some Air Travel Whining December 12, 2024 by Super User I am back from the US west – Palm Springs and then Las Vegas and a set of flights that really reinforced how I like the being there of travel, but not the getting there. Two hour and four hour delays on the way out, and a swing home that should have got me home …
Impressions From The First Invidis Executive Lounge In US December 10, 2024 by Super User My friends at the Munich-based consultancy invidis do a bunch of things, including organizing and running a series of executive retreats. They have done several in Europe and just did their first on this side of the pond, in Palm Springs, California. They invited me to join in, doing some interviews with attendees and sharing …
Poppulo Largest CMS Company To Date To Adopt Amazon’s $100 Signage Stick As Hardware Option December 5, 2024 by Super User When etailing giant Amazon announced a couple of months ago that it had developed and was now marketing a lean version of its Fire TV HDMI sticks and specifically calling it the Amazon Signage Stick, it was reasonable to assume that the main software partners for the $100 device would be companies focused on the …
Most Retail Media Networks Will Fight For Ad Spend Table Scraps In 2025: eMarketer Forecast December 3, 2024 by Super User The wave of retail media networks launched in the U.S. and elsewhere in the past couple of years may soon start washing back out to sea, as industry watchers see far too many smaller networks fighting for the limited retail ad spend dollars not going to Amazon and Walmart. The market research firm eMarketer says …
Testing Suggests Digital Signage Players On ChromeOS 35% More Energy-Efficient Than Same Devices Running Windows December 3, 2024 by Super User Sixteen:Nine’s German-language content partners invidis have an interesting story up discussing the merits of the ChromeOS operating system for use in digital signage, covering some familiar ground like cloud updating and security, but also getting into a less discussed area – energy consumption. The managing director of the Munich-based value-added distributor Concept International, Mike Finckh, …
Icelandic Software Firm Launches “Hardware-Free” Digital Signage Solution November 27, 2024 by Super User An Icelandic software services company called Dacoda has wrapped up two years of development work and launched a new SaaS digital signage product that borrows on streaming TV technology – with a service that runs purely off a connected smart display’s browser. Called Signital – and I haven’t sorted our how to pronounce that … …
