Technology Is The Key To Brand Loyalty On The Changing High Street June 4, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Joe Rabah, RMG Networks Today’s newspapers are awash with daily stories of retailers having to transform their business models from yesteryear to stay afloat as our high streets evolve and customer habits and expectations change. Recent articles discussing the fate of the UK’s Mothercare, Marks & Spencer and House of Fraser are just …
Call Out For Digital Artists To Populate Digital Signage Screens At NYC’s Fulton Center June 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes The team behind the massive digital signage network at the Fulton Center subway station in New York have put a call out for visual artists who want to show their new media work on many screens in and around the facility. MTA Arts & Design wants to “establish a deep pool of fresh new …
United Airlines Using Workplace Digital Signage To Fight Union Drive June 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes Digital signage for workplace communications is increasingly common, used for things like safety and benefits notices, training and messages that motivate employees and celebrate accomplishments. It’s a bit different, to say the least, to see the tech used by an employer as a union-busting tool. Bloomberg is reporting that United Airlines is running anti-union messages …
inLighten Release CMS-Neutral StudioPro Content Creation Tool For Digital Signage May 31, 2018 by Dave Haynes Buffalo, NY-based digital signage software shop inLighten has started marketing an interesting new content creation tool for digital signage networks that’s aimed for users of any skill level and NOT tied to a particular content management system. So an end-user can produce material using StudioPro, but output it to use on whatever CMS software and …
16:9 Podcasts – Mitch Goss On Building NYC’s Zero-In As A Genuine Turnkey Digital Signage Business May 30, 2018 by Dave Haynes There are lots of companies out there that call themselves turnkey digital signage solutions providers, but far fewer who can do so with straight faces. A company called Zero-In has been doing just that for the last decade, and has developed a nice book of business doing the whole nine yards of signage work – …
Transparent Shop Window LEDs Drive Brand, Foot Traffic At San Francisco Levi’s Flagship May 29, 2018 by Dave Haynes The flagship Levi Strauss & Co. store at Market and 4th Street in San Francisco is using a nice pair of transparent LED screens in the big shop windows to drive the brand and pull people inside. The shop windows are running video pieces using Reflect’s CMS and two FLEXClear transparent LED video displays from …
Put The World Cup On Your Digital Signage Screens With These Feeds May 24, 2018 by Dave Haynes The world’s biggest sporting event gets started in a matter of a couple of weeks, and the World Cup squads for many of the footballing countries who qualified are already gathering for training, and generating news. It’s a big deal, and at least some of the subscription and specialty content companies who produce material for …
Massive Projection-Mapping Set-Up Shows Potential Impacts Of Disappearing Louisiana Coastline May 17, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here’s an unusual but great example of projection-mapping that, for a change, is about education rather than the razzle-dazzle of sports or special events. The Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority (CPRA) and Louisiana State University (LSU) Center for River Studies worked with integrator Interstate Electronics Systems (IES) and Christie on a 90 by 120 foot movable physical …
16:9 Podcasts: UPshow’s Matt Gibbs On Successfully Bringing Social TV To Life In Restaurants May 16, 2018 by Dave Haynes A whole bunch of startups have through the years, tried to crack the restaurant and bar business with a digital out of home advertising model that saw them put in screens and media players, hoping to claw back the costs, and more, through advertising. And a whole bunch of them – most of them, in …
Chatbot Platform Finds Its Way Into Retail Digital Signage May 15, 2018 by Dave Haynes Chatbots are growing increasingly common online, but a pair of companies have teamed up to take that experience to digital displays at retail shelves. A Lyon, France start-up called Botescope has worked with the Raspberry Pi-centric CMS firm Screenly to develop a solution that pairs and controls screens with mobile devices through conversational “smart agents.” …
