TUFF Subway Film Fest Set To Run On Toronto’s TTC Digital OOH Screens September 10, 2015 by Super User The Toronto International Film Festival will soon take over the cinemas and chic hotels of downtown Toronto, and below the streets, the Toronto Urban Film Festival, aka TUFF, is about to take over screens in the subway system. Described as North America’s largest commuter film festival, TUFF runs some of the world’s best one-minute silent films on PATTISON …
Original Community Content Focus of New LA Digital OOH Network August 31, 2015 by Super User A Southern California video production company has taken over programming screens in McDonald’s locations throughout Los Angeles, driving a digital OOH network that tries a very different spin on dining area screen networks. The big difference with America’s Community Network is programming that is predominantly original and all focused on the people, places and character of …
DSE Opens Up Awards Submissions – Why You Should Care August 26, 2015 by Super User The Digital Signage Expo people have opened up the submissions process for its annual Apex awards for content and installation work, with a November deadline to get your pitches in. DSE moved the awards event from a dinner (which it ran for several years) to a breakfast in 2015. I’m not sure how that went, …
Valotalive, Signagelive Partner On Real-Time Data Visualization Services August 25, 2015 by Super User A couple of “live” companies have put together a partnership to start using HTML5 in bringing real-time visualized content to digital signage screens, particularly in business environments. The deal – a global partnership – is between Finland’s Valotalive and the UK’s Signagelive. It includes packaged RSS news and weather feeds, as well as social media …
GSTV Adds Micro Movie Reviews To Gas Pump Content Mix August 17, 2015 by Super User I’ve long liked how the gas pump digital OOH guys have regularly tried to rethink content on their screens – going out and finding content that wasn’t just the old news, sports and weather feeds out there. They’ve tried a bunch of things, and now they’re trying very short form, very IN-YOUR-FACE movie reviews. Gas Station …
Did Indoor Wayfinding Just Get Easier For Android Signage Platforms? August 14, 2015 by Super User This is one of those devil in the details things, but it would at least appear there is a slick new way for software companies offering Android digital signage software platforms to add indoor mapping for malls, campuses and other busy, confusing places. A company called Here is offering up indoor mapping capability to Android …
ScreenScape Builds Sports Video Clip Platform Into CMS Offer August 4, 2015 by Super User PEI’s ScreenScape Networks Inc. has worked a content deal with another Canadian company that specializes in packaging up sports highlights as YouTube-style videos. Victoria, BC’s SendtoNews is making digital content available to ScreenScape’s CMS platform customers through its own SportStation platform, on a pay-per-use basis. The partnership offers two levels of SportStation programming: A standard package will supply daily …
Tim Hortons Digital OOH Network Stirs Controversy, Prompts Rethink July 27, 2015 by Super User Canadian QSR giant Tim Horton’s has run into the problem that has occasionally come up at just about any venue running third-party advertising as a cost-recovery measure: complaints about the advertisers. CTV News, a Canadian broadcaster, reported today how the hyper-popular coffee and donut chain has found itself in the middle of a much broader …
US FDA Pushes Back Menu Labeling Requirements By Year July 9, 2015 by Super User Hat tip to Raffi Vartian at Signagelive for flagging this … The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has postponed by a year federal menu labeling requirements, with the FDA saying it needs to provide more clarification on rules and regulations that are not necessarily being warmly greeted by all affected parties. “Industry, trade and other …
Enplug Launches What It Calls 1st Public App Market For Digital Signage July 9, 2015 by Super User LA-based Enplug has launched what it calls the industry’s first Public App Market – the highlight of the signage content and solutions company’s upcoming software release, called DisplayOS 4.0. The App Market pitch is that it brings the smartphone app store idea to digital signage – allowing users to poke around the Enplug App Market and selecting from a variety of content-focused …
