Digital Signage & 85p Hotdogs – Two Things Ikea’s London Store Does Right June 2, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger Much has been said about how screen-heavy Ikea’s new City Store on Oxford Street is – but even so, I was surprised by the sheer variety of digital signage formats used throughout the space. This isn’t just a case of throwing screens on walls; it’s a thoughtful, content-first approach. From the moment you step inside …
Scala Gets Beyond Just Populating Menu Displays With New Quintet QSR Automation Solution May 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes It seems obvious, but I remain surprised how many CMS software companies continue down the path of developing and marketing general solutions, when in most cases they should really be trying to zero in on solution and sector, and go deep with it. If your solution meets every or most needs, it’s probably broad but …
Smallish LED Tunnel Creates Big Visuals At New Thai Experiential Space May 19, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is an experiential space that recently opened in Bangkok, Thailand – especially interesting because it uses a relatively small amount of LED display to create a set of huge visual experiences. It’s a an LED tunnel lined floor to curved ceiling with display, and while kinda sorta small physically when compared to big LED …
UK Bridge’s Supports Lit Up, Projection-Mapped, To Mark VE Day May 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is great – a projection-mapping job last night marking the 80th anniversary of the end of hostilities in Europe, back in 1945. The UK specialist firm Motion Mapping used two of the concrete supports of the Orwell Bridge in Suffolk, northeast of London, as the canvas for projection. This was done from a restaurant …
FAFO: Fired Disney World Manager Gets Three Years Jail For Monkeying With Park Menu Boards May 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes In a clear example of F*** Around and Find Out, a former Walt Disney World employee who responded to his firing by using his unrevoked system access to monkey with and disable the park’s digital menus has been handed a three-year prison sentence and ordered to pay almost $700,000 USD in restitution. While that, at …
OAAA Announces Annual Awards For Top OOH/DOOH Media Work May 8, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) has been handing out awards for excellence in billboards, posters and other formats LONG before digital came along, and this week at its annual conference the trade association revealed the winners of the 83rd Annual OBIE Awards. The Platinum OBIE Award, the top honor, went to Coca-Cola …
Dynamic Content Without Coding: Digichief Launches Mercury Platform May 1, 2025 by Dave Haynes Lexington, KY-based Digichief has broadened its digital signage content solutions portfolio with what it calls the Digichief Mercury Content Platform, an in-house tool that uses flexible browser technologies like HTML5 to allow solutions providers and end-users to highly customize their automated on-screen content. This intuitive platform, says Digichief, allows users to choose from a library …
Tik Tok Video: Small Town Businesses Use Road Signs To Playfully Taunt Each Other April 11, 2025 by Dave Haynes Some Friday fun to take your mind off all the nuttiness for a minute or two … This is a bit dated but great – a playful sign war in a small Missouri town that had various businesses needling each other or just adding some color. The first signs were analog but operators with outdoor …
BenQ Beefs Up Its Push On Digital Signage Displays That Are Validated For Pantone Color April 4, 2025 by Dave Haynes Taiwanese display manufacturer BenQ took the interesting step all the way back to 2019 of starting to market a display that was Pantone Validated – meaning it met a standard familiar to the creative and brand communities for color accuracy across print and digital. More than five years on, the company is continuing to make …
The Uncomfortable Truth About Interactive Digital Wayfinders March 31, 2025 by Jordan Feil Guest Post: Jordan Feil, Digital Signage Consultant After 17 years in the digital signage software industry, I’ve picked up a funny habit: I can’t walk through a mall, airport, or office building without checking out every screen I see. I notice how good the content looks, where they put it, if it works well, and …
