Projects: Mall Displays Of The Future, Or Gimmick? March 25, 2015 by Super User US shopping mall operator Westfield put a back to back bank of big-ass LCD touch displays in one of its big malls, Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey, about a year ago. I missed the press and only stumbled across the set-up when it was written up as part of a piece in Ad …
Five Reasons To Integrate Social Media & Digital Signage March 25, 2015 by Tim Griffin Guest Post: Ryan Gushue, ENPLUG How perfect of a match are digital signage and social media? Moving on from the outdated SMS text message integration, social media provides for a more personal, customizable way to get viewers involved through your display. Restaurants, hotels, and even office spaces are incorporating live social media into their content …
Content: Tidy Slot-Topper At Stratosphere March 17, 2015 by Super User I had never been in the Stratosphere, but we wandered up there from our hotel one night during DSE week to have a look in the new SLS casino (it’s different, but nice) and then we crossed the street and had a peek in the old casino with the giant tower. The Stratosphere looks pretty much …
DSE 2015 Award Winners List March 14, 2015 by Super User Here’s all the winners from the Digital Signage Expo install and creative awards held Thursday in Las Vegas … In the Apex install awards, there were about 80 entrants and 60 in content (which I think is kind of feeble on the part of integrators and other vendors – awards are great marketing tools, so …
Parallel Employee Comms Conference At DSE Filling Up March 3, 2015 by Super User There’s an interesting parallel event going with DSE next week in Las Vegas – a full three-day conference on digital for employee communications. Called “Best Practices in Digital Employee Communications,” the event has people attending from companies like American Express, Victoria’s Secret, FedEx, St Jude Children’s Hospital, Disney, Virgin America, Kellogg’s and more attending. Industry vet …
Video: Responsive HTML5-Driven Menuboards Demo March 3, 2015 by Super User I think there’s a broad school of thought out there that HTML5 is interesting, but visually pretty limited in what it can do in digital signage. It indeed has its limits and is no video replacement, but its ability to drive motion and incorporate video makes it a big step up from the static presentations …
Captivate Tweaks Elevator Screen Designs; Drops Network In Branding March 2, 2015 by Super User The media company that has some 12,000 screens in elevators – making it among the largest digital sign deployments in North America – has monkeyed with its screen design and unveiled a new brand that drops the “Network” part of its name. The big shifts are a new time and temperature window design to sync the …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: Screenfeed March 2, 2015 by Super User Jeremy Gavin, CEO, Screenfeed Booth C6 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Because we help increase viewership of screens and make them more relevant to our customers’ audience. We do this through licensed, high-quality, dynamic content that continuously updates to keep screens fresh and …
Projects: Extremely Clever Corporate Comms At Blinds.com February 26, 2015 by Super User This is soooooo clever. Blinds.com, an online seller of guess what, has a very sharp guy named Brad Parler who has put together an internal corporate communications network like none other I have seen in digital signage. Forget about bland Excel charts or leaderboards that are just names and numbers. The Blinds.com guys took their …
DSE 2015 Booth Field Guide: Enplug February 25, 2015 by Super User Ryan Gushue, Enplug DSE Booth: FT4 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Enplug will be announcing the release of their software development kit (SDK) for its open digital signage platform, which is applying the ‘app’ paradigm of mobile devices to digital signage. Enplug’s …
