Screenfeed Again Providing Visual Aids For March Madness March 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes March Madness is back – the annual US college basketball tournament that starts at 64+ teams, and eliminates all the way down to a Final Four and championship game and winner. Subscription content provider Screenfeed packaged up an automated service that allows hoop fans to follow the tournament and the bracketed elimination set-up. The service …
34 Sources For Free Files That Screen Networks Can Use For COVID-19 Awareness March 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes Here is a resource of free, screen-ready public service graphics and motion media files that digital signage and DOOH networks of all stripes and models can use to raise awareness of, and reinforce, health safety and prevention measures in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak. These have been developed by companies to make available to …
Free Coronavirus Icon Sets For Creatives March 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes Alex Camacho from Intuiface kindly passed along links to some free icon packs for creatives who want or have been tasked with developing messaging for digital signage and DOOH screens about coronavirus health safety. Together with kind contributors, Iconfinder is giving away more than 200 free vector icons related to hygiene and awareness about the virus spread. …
Wanted And Needed: Coronavirus PSAs That Digital Signage Networks Can Use March 11, 2020 by Dave Haynes Maybe it is out there and I just can’t find it, but my efforts to find a helpful, product-neutral Public Service Announcement video spot about proper hand-washing, coughing into one’s sleeve, and so on, have proven fruitless. Despite the 24/7 news coverage of the COVID-19 virus outbreak and rapid spread, and lots of written material, …
Finalists Announced For DSF’s 2020 Apex Awards At DSE March 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes Digital Signage Expo and the Digital Signage Federation have announced the 37 finalists for the 16th annual APEX Awards, which celebrate projects and creative done in the sector, globally, in the past year. The finalists were chosen by an independent panel of 11 industry experts and journalists from a pool of 115 entrants, from 19 …
Virtual Dining Car Used To Entertain, Stimulate At UK Seniors’ Residence March 10, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a great little project for a seniors’ care home in Bradford, England, up in West Yorkshire. To entertain and mentally stimulate mostly shut-in seniors, the care home designed and built a faux dining car on a train, with digital displays used as “windows” that show the passing countryside. The Gateway Care Home spent …
Cannabis Dispensaries Using Digital Signage Network To Explain And Sell March 6, 2020 by Dave Haynes At a lunch with some industry folks earlier this week, we were talking about emerging vertical markets, and I said cannabis retailing was among the most opportune, because it is still early days … and because the product and dynamics beg for screens that promote and explain things. While there are lots of customers who …
DSE 2020 Booth Preview: RMG Networks Showing How Korbyt Boosts Workplace Engagement March 5, 2020 by Dave Haynes DSE Booth Previews: RMG Networks, Booth # CX8 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Stop by our booth at the start of your day – we’re just to the left of the entrance in the Content and Experience (CX) Showcase. Our digital signage …
72 Sync’d Screens Flow Up And Down On Video Wall At Merck’s Innovation Center March 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes I was banging out a post, singing the praises of a recent video wall job done for a copper company at a trade show, until I noticed a pilot comment on Linkedin that noted what was done was pretty much a clone of a fixed installation in Germany. Moving parts can present problems for any …
Auto Dealer Software Giant Acquires Interactive Service Counter Firm GoMoto March 2, 2020 by Dave Haynes One of the challenges any technology company faces in penetrating a vertical market is crossing the divide from selling something that would be nice to have, to offering something that is seen as essential. In car dealerships, things like big video walls and interactive car configurators are likely still in the nice to have category, …
