Nine Keys For A Successful Workplace Digital Signage Content Plan December 11, 2018 by Vpetersson Guest Post: Kaijus Asteljoki, Valotalive Digital signage content strategy helps you outline the plan for a successful implementation and to maximize the impact of the investment. With proper planning you can also avoid the possible simple mistakes. In this post we will review everything you need to know about the content strategy: How do we …
Here’s The Finalist List For The 2019 Global Digital Signage Awards December 10, 2018 by Dave Haynes The Finalists have been selected by 28 judges for the 2019 Digital Signage Awards, run in conjunction with Sixteen:Nine. The Winners and High Commendations will be presented on the evening of Feb. 6 at the Compagnie Theater in Amsterdam, which puts it in the middle of ISE. The awards team says entries were up more …
Visix Releases Beta Of New Alerts And Warnings Platform For Digital Signage Networks December 5, 2018 by Dave Haynes Atlanta-based Visix has for many years been a big advocate of integrating alert messaging into its signage management platform – at least in part because higher education is a major vertical market for the company. Now the software company has released a beta version of its new AxisTV Alert – an alert management application that …
Kaijus Asteljoki On Making Workplace Digital Signage Interesting, And Automated December 5, 2018 by Dave Haynes Workplace communications is one of the most active verticals in digital signage, and a big reason for that is the ability of screen technology to get important information to staff – without hoping they open and read mass emails or see posters on breakroom cork boards. The Finnish startup Valota saw the rise in business-based …
Ryan Croft of TransitScreen On Making Content That Moves People November 28, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is inadvertently turning into transit digital signage month on this podcast, having spoken lately with CHK America about epaper transit signs and just last week with Roadify, which aggregates data from transit systems. This week I’m talking to Ryan Croft, one of the co-founders of TransitScreen, which has made a mark in North America …
New Spanish Shopping Mall Greets, Entertains With Giant, Curved LED Facade November 26, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a new shopping mall – Torrecardenas – in Almeria,Spain, on the south coast, about 200 km east of Malaga (if that means anything to you). The mall developers went very big on direct view LED on a curved wall by the main entry point. What I like, based on the videos below, is …
Halifax Bank’s Splashy London Flagship Branch Features LED Halo, Interactive Stations November 22, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is the London flagship branch for the UK-based Halifax Bank – located on Oxford Street across the road from the Tottenham Court Road Underground station. The new branch has a long list of digital signage and interactive applications, all pulled together by the Manchester-area solutions firm Pixel Inspiration., which has been working for years …
Scott Kolber Of Roadify On Organizing Transit Data For The Masses November 21, 2018 by Dave Haynes Mass transport data is some of the stickiest content out there for digital signage screens. It’s information people tend to want and need, and they’ll habitually look at screens to get it. Tapping into the open data from one transport authority, to show it on screens, is relatively easy. It gets more complicated when you …
Interactive Zone Lets Fans Photobomb Favorite NHL Players November 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes The NHL’s Philadelphia Flyers pro hockey team has established a Family Fun Zone in its home arena, the Wells Fargo Center, that’s largely built around interactive technology. The team worked with Philly-based MVP Interactive on four different fan experiences – including a couple of augmented reality photo set-ups. I’m partial to the one that enables people …
Beth Warren Of CRI On How To Make Digital Signage Really Resonate In Retail November 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes Beth Warren of Creative Realities – or CRI for short – came recommended as a speaker for the DSF’s recent Coffee and Controversy event in New York. We’d never met, and while in New York, I seized the opportunity to meet up with her after the event to talk a lot about digital signage in …
