Company Behind Giant Eye Digital Boards In Birmingham, UK Changes Hands August 22, 2022 by Super User The UK company behind those big Eye of Sauron LED displays on the bulkheads outside a main Birmingham rail station ran into financial issues during the heights of COVID and has now acquired and rescued out of administration (bankruptcy) by a private equity fund. Birmingham-based Concept Sign and Display, which specializes in big LED displays …
Loop TV Buffs Up UX As It Chases On-Premise DOOH Business Model August 22, 2022 by Super User One of the reasons I’ve discouraged digital signage CMS software companies from making small to medium restaurants and retail operations a primary vertical is that they are going to be dealing with a lot of competitors chasing the same finite, tight-budget business, including competitors who are putting in digital signage capabilities for free. It’s a …
Car Brand Seat CUPRA Uses Big Digital Displays To Drive Showroom Experience At Munich Flagship August 18, 2022 by Super User A bunch of factors are changing how auto dealerships are designed and operated – with digital displays and software increasingly important in the demonstration and selling process. The new flagship store for the VW-owned car brand Seat CUPRA is a good example of how dealer set-ups are shrinking and evolving. The store in Munich is …
Coates Group Says It Has Won McDonald’s Global Digital Signage CMS Business August 15, 2022 by Super User Australia-based digital signage solutions provider Coates Group says it has come out of an evaluation process and been named as “McDonald’s single global Digital Menu Board (DMB) Content Management System (CMS) provider, and one of two approved Digital Menu Board hardware providers alongside Acrelec Group.” “This new appointment,” says the company in PR, “is the largest …
Ballpark Home Of Toronto’s Blue Jays Getting $300M More In Fan Experience Upgrades August 10, 2022 by Super User There have been a number of sports and entertainment stadiums and arenas in North America that have been demolished or deemed outdated and then vacated in favor of flashy, very expensive n ew digs, so it’s almost refreshing to read that a 33-year-old building is getting renovated for $300 million instead of replaced with a …
Volta EV Charging Totem Network Already Past 2,300 DOOH Totems And 1B Impressions August 9, 2022 by Super User The one-to-one, driver-to-screen media model of digital ad posters on electric vehicle charging stations seems a little counter-intuitive for out of home media companies that are all about lots and lots of eyeballs, but it seems to be working for Volta. The San Francisco-based media start-up now has more than 2,300 double-sided display units deployed …
Adding Drive-Thru Lanes And Displays Boosting Shake Shack Sales August 9, 2022 by Super User One of the changes the pandemic triggered in the QSR business is the broader adoption of drive-thru lanes and related technology, at first because during lockdowns that was the only way operators could stay open (plus delivery) and then because consumers got used to drive-thru. Drive-thrus allowed operators like McDonalds and Tim Hortons to somewhat …
Curbside And In-Store Pickup Waning In Popularity With US Shoppers August 5, 2022 by Super User One of the predictions as the pandemic wore on was that consumers who used Buy Online Pickup In Store services out of necessity were being permanently conditioned and converted to that shopping style, which would prompt a lot of retailers to rethink how they designed and ran stores. Turns out that these services are not …
Sydney AdTech Event’s Keynote To Explore Post-Cookie OOH Advertising Landscape August 4, 2022 by Super User The APAC CEO of the programmatic firm MiQ Solutions is doing the keynote, with a colleague, at the AdTECH:OOH Conference coming up in a couple of weeks in Sydney, Australia. Jason Scott and MiQ Solutions Consultant Belinda Cooper will share their thoughts in a presentation with the in-your-face title: “The Big Picture Programmatic Future: Cookies …
SID Moves Its Annual Display Week To LA For 2023 August 4, 2022 by Super User The Society for Information Display has shifted locations for its May 2023 Display Week conference and trade fair, heading down the California coast from San Jose to Los Angeles. The 60th International Society for Information Display Technical Symposium is set for May 21-26, 2023 at the LA Convention Center. That facility is right downtown, in …
