Projects: Canada’s Busiest Highways Get Interactive At Travel Centre Stops September 6, 2016 by Super User If you’ve even driven the 401 highway that runs up from Detroit through Toronto and almost to Montreal, you’ll have been thankful there’s a set of travel centres that provide the essentials to motoring: gas, coffee and clean restrooms. About 500,000 people a day pull in to these centres across the province. There are 23 …
Why And How To Engage The Bosses With Digital Signage September 2, 2016 by Stu Armstrong Guest Post: Sean Matthews, Visix You’ve hired some of the best and brightest people around to help you run your company. Use your corporate digital signage solution to support, encourage and inspire them as they steer your organization to success. Seven Traits to Thrive Harvard Business Review identified seven traits that companies most need in …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Jim Nista, Insteo August 31, 2016 by Super User Jim Nista and I have had lotsa long, interesting talks over trade show cocktails in Las Vegas or Orlando about the state of the industry and what needs to happen, particularly as it relates to content. Unfortunately … or perhaps fortunately, when I really think about it (hic) … they were not recorded. But the …
Projection-Mapped Advertising Goes Airborne Over NYC August 29, 2016 by Super User Last week, New Yorkers might have looked up one night and seen a huge illuminated billboard floating along the west skyline, over the Hudson River. Industry friend Will Amos of Diversified sent me a smartphone video that was, as he advertised, crappy, and had him guessing way off in the distance was a plane towing an …
Experiential Design and Data Visualization: The Business Shift To Big Data August 24, 2016 by Rebecca Downden Guest Post: Hoa Tong, Array Interactive If you’ve been keeping current with the latest business industry practices the last decade, you’ve probably seen that many significant company decisions today affecting time, money, and outcome are no longer made based solely on executive counsel, trends, or even past experiences. They’re now made based on pure data …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Brian Fitzpatrick, Revel Media Group August 24, 2016 by Super User Every so often I bump into a company that’s stayed well out of the spotlight, kept its collective heads down, and built up a thriving business – while most of the industry was unaware the company even existed. Consider Revel Media Group, which is based in the greater Salt Lake City area. Revel is a digital signage …
The Path To The Post-Search Era August 23, 2016 by Viktor Petersson Guest Post: Kaijus Asteljoki, Valotalive “Why?” That was the question, a good friend asked me recently. “Why do you do what you do? What inspires you and your company to push forward?” I had an immediate answer to that question, because it was obvious to me. Now I want to share my answer with you. We …
Digital Signage Goes To Another Kitchen August 23, 2016 by Super User Here’s a different take on the idea of putting digital signage in private homes. Cassidy Smirnow is Senior VP of Operations at Denver’s Four Winds Interactive, and as a result, knows here way around the platform and the idea of building and publishing a layout to a display. For the last couple of years she has …
How To Skirt City Billboard Bans, Using Projection Mapping August 18, 2016 by Super User Here’s an interesting way to get around a city’s billboard advertising laws – use projection and make the windows of rented commercial space the billboard. That’s what Citibank has done at its high profile branch on Faria Lima Avenue in São Paulo, Brazil. São Paulo banned all billboards in 2007 to fight what it saw …
Conductive Ink Turns Pizza Hut Box Into Interactive DJ Station August 17, 2016 by Super User Via TechCrunch I’m a big proponent of mixing mediums, like using print to frame and make digital displays much bigger. And I like tech that turns a medium upside – like the conductive ink developed by UK startup Novalia. The company uses paper thin printed membranes as the touch overlay and microcontrollers as the smarts. …
