Seoul Starbucks Reserve Drives Experience With Ambient, Data-Triggered LED Feature Wall May 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a Starbucks Reserve location in Seoul, in the same office tower as the coffee company’s Korean headquarters. It has a 2.5mm LED video wall on an arched feature wall. The video shows it running an animated watercolor depicting a coffee planation. Opened a couple of months ago, Starbucks says: The interior of the …
Seenspire, Embed Launch Automated Content Feed Partnership May 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Belgian subscription content firm Seenspire has announced a partnership that provides users of UK-based CMS software firm embed signage with unlimited access to automated content. Seenspire describes itself as “the first streaming service to provide unlimited access to digital signage content in a single subscription” and with this tie-up, users of embed can simply …
Appspace Now Built Into Cisco Webex, Enabling Easy Jump From Video Calls To Workplace Messaging May 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes The CMS software firm Appspace has had close ties with Cisco for many years, and the latest iteration of that relationship is an integration of the the digital signage platform within Cisco’s Webex video call system. Tied in with Cisco Webex Control Hub, the set-up allows companies that use Cisco Webex devices to enable team …
Melitron, Axis and ICON Partner On COVID-Driven People Count Kiosk for Retail May 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes I don’t get out much lately, so maybe the retail world is overrun with COVID-19 access control technologies and I’d see them if I traveled. But I don’t think so. I get carpet-bombed daily with emails about digital deployments of some kind or another, and I just have not seen much material that suggests widespread …
Rise Vision, Airtame Partner On Digital Signage Solution Aimed Mainly At Schools May 18, 2021 by Dave Haynes Longtime digital signage CMS Rise Vision has announced an intriguing partnership with Airtame, a technology startup that also offers a digital signage solution built around a device that looks like a Google Chromecast dongle. That partnership relates to Rise Vision’s vast and excellent library of user-driven content templates for scenarios like schools. With Rise Vision’s …
Uniquest Acquires Sagely In Continued Build-out Of Senior Living Vertical May 11, 2021 by Dave Haynes Nashville-based solutions provider Uniguest has acquired a Hawaiian software company, Sagely, to build out its growing vertical focus on senior living communities. Sagely will merge into Touchtown, which is Uniguest’s senior living brand via the earlier acquisition of Touchtown. That company works with more than 1,300 senior living communities – running content that reduces social …
Community Builder Using Digital Signage Players Inside Model Homes May 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes I have heard of many cases in which builders and property developers have used digital signage in their presentation centers – dedicated buildings or areas within existing or new builds – that show the features and offers of dwellings and areas. Here’s a case where a builder is putting digital signage into each model home, …
Is This The World’s Biggest Digital Menu Display? May 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is certainly the biggest digital menu display I’ve ever seen – a set-up using LED in the common area of a cinema operation in the Cinépolis movie theater chain. Cinépolis is the largest cinema circuit in Latin America and the third worldwide, operating across Mexico, Brazil, part of the U.S. and roughly a dozen …
Telelogos Integrates With Hivestack To Bolster Advertising Capabilities Of Its CMS April 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes It seems, at least, that more and more general offer digital signage software platforms are adding some advertising capabilities either directly in their code or via partnerships and APIs. Broadsign is the obvious example of a software shop that is mainly focused on digital OOH advertising. But most CMS platforms offer more generalized solutions, or …
Submarine Takes Slow Dive Based On Viewers Of Those UK Digital Billboard April 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes In the first wave of QR codes. several years ago, there were lots of jokes about the dubious merits of putting these enhanced bar codes on digital OOH billboards. But here, in what seems to a revival period for the tech, is a billboard that makes the artistic rendering of the codes the focal point …
