Projects: Screens Are Focal Points In Ontario Lottery’s Reworked Mall Kiosks April 15, 2015 by Dave Haynes Ontario Lottery generates about $130 million annually by selling lottery ticket products at some 130 kiosks plopped into the concourses of shopping malls around the province. About six months ago, the provincial corporation started running a pilot program that spruced up the look of the kiosks and made digital display the centrepieces, running content generated …
4K In Digital Signage: It’s Not A Sprint; It’s A Marathon April 15, 2015 by Dave Haynes I have a business contact I work with on video production, and I mentioned to him recently how it may well be time to step up production from 720P to 1080P, as that now seems to have settled in as the standard in digital signage video outputs. Nope, he said, we’re going right on past …
Projects: Spaulding Boston Inspire Patients, Families Using Digital Signage April 10, 2015 by Dave Haynes Spaulding Boston rehab hospital opened new digs on that city’s waterfront about two years ago, and the facility is full of different video wall configurations all built around driving the hospital brand and inspiring patients and families going through the recovery process from injuries and illnesses. There are 18 different digital media display walls …
Triggered Content: What’s Old Is Somehow New Again April 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes More than 15 years in digital signage has, admittedly, left me a little jaded. What can excite a bunch of people barely gets a shrug out of me when I see it or read about it. Sometimes common sense tells you something won’t every really fly – like glasses-free 3D or most of the Stupid People …
TigerLogic Debuts Postano User-Gen Chrome App For Retail April 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes Portland, Oregon-based TigerLogic has developed and released a user-generated content application for kiosks that jumps on the rather abrupt explosion of development and interest in Google’s low-cost Chrome platform. The company’s interactive brand is Postano, and Postano Kiosk is now an app that can be downloaded from the Google Chrome web store. It’s designed for integrating user-generated …
Digital Signage Goes To College April 2, 2015 by Pat Hellberg Guest Post: Pat Hellberg, The Preset Group I have a son who is a junior in high school, which means in about a year and a half, he will be spending all of my money. College is coming … quickly. To find the right fit, we just spent spring break visiting schools in California. Our …
Five Reasons To Integrate Social Media & Digital Signage March 25, 2015 by Tim Griffin Guest Post: Ryan Gushue, ENPLUG How perfect of a match are digital signage and social media? Moving on from the outdated SMS text message integration, social media provides for a more personal, customizable way to get viewers involved through your display. Restaurants, hotels, and even office spaces are incorporating live social media into their content …
Parallel Employee Comms Conference At DSE Filling Up March 3, 2015 by Dave Haynes There’s an interesting parallel event going with DSE next week in Las Vegas – a full three-day conference on digital for employee communications. Called “Best Practices in Digital Employee Communications,” the event has people attending from companies like American Express, Victoria’s Secret, FedEx, St Jude Children’s Hospital, Disney, Virgin America, Kellogg’s and more attending. Industry vet …
Video: Responsive HTML5-Driven Menuboards Demo March 3, 2015 by Dave Haynes I think there’s a broad school of thought out there that HTML5 is interesting, but visually pretty limited in what it can do in digital signage. It indeed has its limits and is no video replacement, but its ability to drive motion and incorporate video makes it a big step up from the static presentations …
Captivate Tweaks Elevator Screen Designs; Drops Network In Branding March 2, 2015 by Dave Haynes The media company that has some 12,000 screens in elevators – making it among the largest digital sign deployments in North America – has monkeyed with its screen design and unveiled a new brand that drops the “Network” part of its name. The big shifts are a new time and temperature window design to sync the …
