DSE 2016 Booth Field Guide: Studio Squared February 26, 2016 by Super User Studio Squared, Booth C14 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Companies need content, and Studio Squared is a finely tuned, content-creating engine. I’d venture to say we create more digital content than any other company in America. That’s mainly because we create, manage …
Projects: Airport Kiosks Help Travelers Learn CPR Skills To BeeGees Tune February 26, 2016 by Super User This is one of the more unusual, and clever stabs at a public information kiosk I’ve seen come on the market – a CPR skill-testing device that gets airport travellers pushing on a torso to the beat of Stayin’ Alive. The American Heart Association’s Hands-Only CPR campaign features interactive training kiosks at six major US airports. Says a news …
Insteo Opens HTML5-Focused Digital Signage Content Store February 25, 2016 by Super User Many signage software companies have for years offered up design templates and modest app stores to make content creation cheaper and easier for customers, but a new content store being marketed by Long Beach, CA-based content/creative shop Insteo is taking a different approach that says more about where the industry is going, as opposed to …
Luxury Auto Display Wins Planar’s OLED Clear Concept Prize February 23, 2016 by Super User At last fall’s SEGD xlab event in New York, Jennifer Davis from Planar announced a contest aimed at generating great concept uses for transparent OLED screens – technology Planar had just started showing off. A few months later, Planar announced today the winner of the Clear Concept Award – Fivestone Studios, a creative services agency …
Employee Engagement Issues Solved With Digital Signage February 22, 2016 by Stu Armstrong GUEST POST: Sean Matthews, Visix The term “employee engagement” has been a hot topic ever since a 2012 Gallup study showed that companies with highly involved employees significantly outperform those who don’t. This confirmed with hard data something managers had long suspected – people work harder when they feel like they are part of something, …
6 Tips & 20 Tools For Creating Effective Digital Signage Content February 16, 2016 by Sean Levy Guest Post: Irfan Khan, Skykit Imagine the absolute worst possible digital signage content. Let’s say it’s in Comic Sans. The type’s too small, and there’s a whole paragraph of text up there—in yellow text on a white background, naturally. There’s one picture, but it’s tiny and grainy, floating in that white void. Also, the slide …
Signage-Focused Crown Content Creative Shop Launches February 16, 2016 by Super User Michael Tutton is well known in Toronto-area digital signage circles as the guy who, for many, many years, ran the digital display networks for Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation’s many gambling and hospitality properties. He left OLG late last year, recharged a little in the tropics, and has now launched his own signage-focused creative shop, …
Six Great Ways To Optimize Workplace Communications Using Digital Signage February 4, 2016 by Tim Griffin GUEST POST: Colin Bovet, Enplug Whether you’re the Head of Culture at a tech startup or a manager at a Fortune 500 company, you should care deeply about how to communicate with your team. The study and practice of communication within companies is called internal communications, and it is crucial to boosting employee engagement. One study …
Projects: Risotto Ball Sales Explode After UK Chain Adds Digital Menus January 28, 2016 by Super User So first – there are fast food stops for risotto balls? Second, if you market them using digital menus, sales may get a very nice bump. That’s what happened last fall for London, UK risotto ball specialists, Arancini Brothers, when the chain converted traditional menu posters to digital displays. UK-based digital signage company Eclipse Digital …
IAdea To Debut AnyTiles Infinite Video Wall Solution At ISE January 22, 2016 by Super User Taiwan-based device and solutions company IAdea has started marketing what it calls AnyTiles, an “infinite video wall” solution that gets away from the need for driving large, tiled displays with custom and high-end PCs and play-out devices. IAdea has dubbed the technology as Distributed Graphics Architecture (or DGA), and will be showing it off next …
