Etisalat’s Dubai Mall Store Is Floor To Ceiling LED January 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes And we’re back, kinda sorta gradually … Happy 2021! The wireless carrier Etisalat is based in the United Arab Emirates, and is the case with many or most high visibility efforts in Dubai, the company’s new flagship store in the Dubai Mall is seriously over the top with digital displays. It appears the store has …
Lamar, FEMA Partner On Public Alerts, Warnings For 1,000s Of Digital Billboards Across U.S. December 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes The U.S. government’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has put together a partnership with the big OOH/DOOH media company Lamar Advertising Company to show emergency alerts on its many digital billboards. The emergency alerts, provided through FEMA’s Integrated Public Alert & Warning System (IPAWS), will be displayed on select Lamar digital billboards throughout the country. …
LED Is The Primary Architectural Design Feature In This Shanghai Coach Store December 15, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a new immersive retailing store in Shanghai, run by the handbag and accessories brand Coach. Details are limited, but what I found on Linkedin says this is Coach’s first immersive digital store, in Shanghai IAPM, which is an upscale mall. Coach’s VP for Visual Experience says on Linkedin that “customers can change the …
Bayern Munich Using AR Selfie Screen To Bridge Lack Of Fan Contact Caused By COVID-19 December 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes The legendary German pro football club FC Bayern Munich opened a new flagship store in central Munich, with a signature interactive feature an AR-driven display that allows fans to take virtual selfies with their favorite players. The feature is particularly valuable right now because the Bundesliga, like most professional sports leagues, are playing games in …
New Bahrain Mall Features 8K Experiential LED Canopy Ceiling December 12, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a roughly 30 foot wide by 200 foot long LED canopy ceiling, doing 8K visuals, in the Mall of Dilmunia in Bahrain. It is an element of a digital out-of-home network in the mall, designed and integrated by Four Square Media, and using Navori’s CMS software. The screen network went in with the …
Israeli Tech Firms Team Up On Mini LCD Video Wall For Sports Interview Logo Backdrops December 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes Three small Israeli tech companies have teamed up on a solution aimed at enlivening the logo walls that seem to be showing up at every pre and post-game media discussion in professional and even high-level amateur sport. Backdrops covered in neatly arranged and repeated logos are particularly common in professional football (soccer for Americans), but …
Swiss AI Firm Advertima Bolsters Smart Digital Signage Team December 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Swiss computer vision firm Advertima has announced what appears to be a serious push into AI-driven solutions for digital signage, with a focus on retail. The company has hired an ex-Navori guy to run global sales and and former Toshiba guy as senior sales director. They’s also added a seasoned AI guy for …
BP Using LED Video Walls Inside Kiwi C-Stores, Surrounding Cooler Doors December 4, 2020 by Dave Haynes There have been lots of examples of transparent and regular LCDs acting as cooler doors in grocery and other food and booze retail settings, but I think this is the first time I have seen using LED to surround cooler doors. It’s great. This is a special “Good Mood Food” section set up in select …
Publicis Sapient Integrates Its Digital In-Venue – Also Known As Digital Signage – With BrightSign December 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes One of the larger media companies on the planet – Publicis Groupe – has started making marketplace noise about what it calls its digital in-venue platform, which is another way of saying its digital signage platform. The digital business transformation side of Publicis Groupe – called Publicis Sapient – announces a tie-up that sees its …
Intuiface, Sightcorp Partner On Shopper Analytics And Real Time Interactive Content Bundle November 25, 2020 by Dave Haynes French interactive software firm Intuiface and the Dutch computer vision firm Sightcorp have announced a partnership that integrates technologies and results in a bundled toolkit designed to simplify things like shopper analytics and real-time content triggering to screens. The partnership involves the integration of Amsterdam-based Sightcorp’s DeepSight Toolkit with Intuiface to enable, says PR, both …
