Chinese Beauty Brand Nu Skin Fills Shenzhen Flagship With Digital Screens January 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a very ambitious, digitally-rich flagship store for Chinese health and beauty brand Nu Skin, opened recently in Shenzhen. Toronto-based Shikatani Lacroix Design (SLD) worked with consulting firm MetaThink to build a store intended as an experience center that reflected the company’s story and brand culture, and showcased products. The store has more than 50 screens in a …
New Orleans Car Dealer Uses Digital Billboards To Troll NFL After Missed Call January 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Datacall’s Tim Vance for flagging this … A New Orleans man who owns multiple car dealerships around that city has booked LED billboards around the Atlanta area to troll the National Football League ahead of the Super Bowl there, in the wake of an awful missed call that very, very likely kept …
Digital Signs Of The Times: Shutdown Time Counters And Birdbox Challenge Warnings January 18, 2019 by Dave Haynes The digital signage CMS software company Rise Vision produces a lot of free, ready-to-use templates for its big base of 9,000-plus customers, and while most of them are things like welcome messages, promotions, menus and calendars, the company’s creatives have also produced things that are more public service-oriented, like anti-bullying messages. Reflecting how things have …
How Chive Media Keeps Butts On Barstools, And Its Plans To Expand Its Screen Network Well Beyond Bars January 16, 2019 by Dave Haynes The big selling point for Chive TV is that the streaming channel’s five-hour mix of curated social media content keeps butts in barstools. The Austin, Texas-based company has some 4,000 bar and restaurant venues running content on one or many of their TVs, and about 500 more come on monthly – with a lot of …
Projection-Mapping; Video Wall Turn Airport Garage Walkway Into Stunning Display For Genesis January 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a very nice, inventive projection-mapping job done at Toronto Pearson Airport for the lux vehicle, the Genesis. BIG Digital, a Toronto solutions provider that kinda sorta specializes in temporary digital signage displays, put together a custom exhibit along one of the walkways in from the parking garage to Terminal 1, the one Air …
16:9’s 2018 Year In Review For Digital Signage, And A Look Ahead December 31, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here are the most heavily-read posts on 16:9 in 2018, as well as (later) my observations on the major trends in 2018 for digital signage, and what may be coming in 2019. As you will notice right away, readers like free or cheap, and they definitely like lists and headlines that promise 3 or 5 …
Kim Sarubbi On The Opportunity And Challenge Of Lighting Up Screens In Cannabis Clinics December 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes Screens in medical waiting rooms is one of the most well established kinds of digital OOH media, and there’s been no end of companies that developed networks built around advertising-supported content. That’s now happening in the United States with medical cannabis clinics, through a pair of signage industry vets who have applied what they learned …
Signagelive Adds Easy, Template-Based Creative Via PosterMyWall Integration December 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes UK digital signage CMS software shop Signagelive has always been fast and smart about tying in to capabilities it can add to its overall offer, choosing to partner rather than build. Its integration is with the US-based firm PosterMyWall – a template-driven, cloud-based platform that allows end-users to build promotional spots without having a lick of design …
Intuiface Adds Deep Analytics To Its Interactive Design Suite December 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes The French software firm Intuiface is the latest vendor in the digital signage ecosystem to add analytics capabilities to its overall offer – though in this case it is less about viewer movement and time as it is about the specifics of interactive display sessions. The company describes Intuiface Analytics as a “product set enabling any …
Video: LAX Int’L Terminal Gets Content Refresh For Iconic Digital Signage Install December 13, 2018 by Dave Haynes The LAX International Terminal digital experience is a few years old now, but to the credit of the airport and JC Decaux, which has the media concession for the airport, the content is being refreshed. This is a loop showing the content being developed for the seven big display elements in the post-security part of …
