Curated Digital Art Streamer Blackdove Launches Pro AV Dealer Program February 14, 2024 by Dave Haynes The digital art platform Blackdove has formally launched a dealer program that it hopes gets the pro AV “channel” talking up, selling and implementing streaming artworks for video walls and other displays in commercial environments. The company has been announcing partnerships here and there since it first came on the scene, such as one last …
Loop Media Expands Market To Include Custom Streaming Channels For Enterprise Businesses February 14, 2024 by Dave Haynes A lot of digital signage CMS and solutions providers who start out targeting the small business market shift to enterprise, where there is more money and scale, and now we’re seeing Digital OOH network operators make a similar shift, or maybe in the case of Loop Media, and expansion. The LA-based company, which provides curated …
ISE 2024 Sixteen:Nine Mixer Sponsor Profile: Meet The Dynamic Content People At Screenfeed January 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is now two weeks out, and Sixteen:Nine is again doing a Barcelona version of the networking mixers it has been doing since forever. The sold out event happens because of eight great sponsors who help cover the considerable costs of the evening, including tapas and an open bar. I like to thank …
Alfalite Bundles Digital Art Library, Media Player Into New AlfaArt Turnkey Video Wall Solution January 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes One of the ongoing challenges of selling big LED video displays into corporate and private spaces is coming up with a plan that not only factors in the cost and integration challenges of the physical screen, but also what’s going to be on it. The Spanish firm Alfalite, which bills itself as the only European …
Mormon Church Books Domination Campaign Across 27 Times Square LED Screens December 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes Brands sometime book domination campaigns that sync up multiple LED spectacular displays in New York’s Times Square, and there are periodic late evening takeovers for public digital art on those screens, but here is something quite different: a Christmas-themed message across 27 displays – planned, booked and delivered by the Mormon church. The Church …
Your Baby Is (Still) Ugly: My 2013 Deck About Bad Decisions Still Holds November 29, 2023 by Dave Haynes I was banging around YouTube last night, looking for a saved video related to travel plans, when I stumbled on my own little channel of produced videos … and this now 10-year-old presentation I did for a conference. It has an elegant title: Your Baby’s Ugly. Basically my way of getting out uncomfortable stuff that …
LED And Hologram-ish Transparent LCD Create Gingerbread House Christmas Activation In London November 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes An “activation” for the beauty brand Jo Malone uses a blend of LED, transparent LCD and scent marketing for a pop-up gingerbread house on a plaza outside the repurposed Battersea Power Station in central London. The gingerbread house has 3D illusion creative running on an LED that fills one wall of the structure, while inside …
DSE 2023 Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Screenfeed To Showcase Expanded Capabilities Of Its No-Code Connect Platform, And New Content Options November 22, 2023 by Dave Haynes The annual Sixteen:Nine networking mixer at DSE is back, set for Dec. 3rd in Las Vegas. It’s sold out, as usual, and we expect to have 350+ Digital Signage Experience attendees showing up for drinks, nibblies and lots of conversations and introductions. The event happens because of the terrific support of sponsors who help cover …
Canadian DOOH Screens To Go (Almost) Black For Two Minutes Nov. 11 To Honor Veterans November 8, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a nice initiative – a push to have digital out of home screens go black for two minutes in Canada on November 11th, which is called Remembrance Day. The Royal Canadian Legion’s initiative sees media operators and their brand advertisers to mark two minutes of silence from 11:00 – 11:02 a.m. – with …
Global Digital Signage Awards Release List Of Finalists; Dinner Set For Jan. 29th In Barcelona October 31, 2023 by Dave Haynes The UK team behind the global Digital Signage Awards has released a full list of the companies that have submitted work for consideration for the 2024 awards, with some 50 business and organizations from around the planet. A rumble through the list shows companies from as far afield as Australia, and the entries include work …