Screenfeed Goes Beautifully Minimal With New Spectrum Weather Service December 15, 2016 by Super User Loyal 16:9 blog and podcast sponsor Screenfeed just announced a very nice new subscription weather service that takes advantage of HTML5 to be highly configurable and animated. Called Spectrum Weather, the service has a wonderfully minimalist look that flies in the face of ALL the cluttered, often cheap looking layouts that persist in the signage marketplace. …
Hungary’s Telenor Uses IntuiLab’s DIY Tools To Build Interactive Shopper Experiences December 13, 2016 by Super User The Hungarian wireless carrier Telenor has opened 13 digital concept stores this year that try to bridge how their customers work with them on mobile and on desktops, with interactive digital stations in the store. “We see that our customers start prefering our electronic channels over traditional customer service: they purchase their devices in our webshop, …
10 Questions To Ask When Buying Digital Signage Software December 8, 2016 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix So, your organization is considering a digital signage system, and you’ve been tasked with gathering info. Where to start? It’s a massive market and getting bigger all the time. Just typing in the term “digital signage” into Google results in 14 million results, and there are an awful lot of …
NBA Fan Zone Virtual Bobble Heads Find Their Way To OKC Highway Billboard December 1, 2016 by Super User The interactive touchscreen thing at sports venues is not new, but there’s a few things Philly-based MVP Interactive did with Cox Communications and the NBA’s Oklahoma City Thunder that are kinda cool: Fans make their personal, albeit virtual bobbleheads; A sensor called the vert jump mat measured how high fans can jump (vertical leap is kind of important …
If I Hear “Content Is King” One More Time, I’ll Scream November 28, 2016 by Jill Perardi Guest post: Vern Freedlander If I hear someone say “content is king” one more time, I am going to scream. There is nothing new about this statement. We all know content is important. It has driven the success of all media since our ancestors gathered around the fire to swap hunting stories, but for some …
Projects: Making Visitor Guestbooks Better By Going Digital November 20, 2016 by Super User Here’s an interesting digital spin on the age-old routine of museums, exhibits and places like B&Bs asking visitors and guests to sign a guestbook. Instead of scribbling something nice in a book, a touchscreen kiosks captures the signature digital, as well as comments and, importantly, opted-in email addresses. New York-based creative design studio C&G Partners …
Seenspire Debuts Social Media Wall Subscription Service November 17, 2016 by Super User The Belgian creative and content shop Seenspire has added social media visualization toolset subscription to its services, called Social Media Wall. The company is hardly the first to offer a means to get Tweets and Instagram messages up on screens, but what’s always been a little different about these guys is their design chops. The …
Video: Four Winds Uses Own Platform To Track, Drive Sales November 16, 2016 by Super User I’m not a big fan of the phrase – “Eat your own dog food” – because it kinda turns me off dinner. But … it’s an apt way of describing how organizations actually use the products or services they sell. This is a video I stumbled on from Denver’s Four Winds Interactive – posted a few …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Michael Schneider, ESI Design November 16, 2016 by Super User I had a chance last week to tour the New York studio and offices for ESI Design, which has done some amazing experiential digital work in public spaces, as well as museums and in retail settings. Michael Schneider is a senior experience designer and creative technologist at the company, and we spent time talking about the …
Saddle Ranch Touts Plans For Ad Network In Marijuana Dispensaries November 15, 2016 by Super User The U.S. elections last week resulted in several states voting to legalize recreational or medical marijuana, and it should be no surprise that companies of all kinds see an industry that’s got a lot of growth and opportunity in it. Like in digital OOH advertising. Phil Cohen built up his first businesses in digital OOH …
