Projects: Tim Hortons TV’s Tidy Programming Design May 17, 2014 by Super User The Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons has been rolling out its dining area network for a few months now, but I hadn’t seen one in the wild until this afternoon, at one of my local Timmies locations. I’m not convinced the things accomplish all that much, especially one located in a smaller footprint site where …
Electric Objects Poised To Launch Digital Art Display Service May 13, 2014 by Super User Electric Objects got some tech-blog love recently from TechCrunch, which wrote about the NYC start-up has raised $1.7 million to launch a service that I’d describe as a first-cousin of digital signage. The company is developing a service that allows people to hang digital art posters in their living or work spaces and subscribe to …
Projects: 110 MicroTile Wall Courts Michigan State Hoops Prospects May 6, 2014 by Super User Big time NCAA college hoop recruiting has a lot to do with impressing the hell out of the athlete prospects when they do campus visits, making them leave with the conviction that they want to play college basketball there. That means bling, and in the case of the Michigan State University Spartans, a 30 foot …
Projects: Digital Ceiling In Oakley’s New NYC Flagship May 5, 2014 by Super User Oakley Store, NYC – Demo from Moment Factory on Vimeo. The sports performance company Oakley opened a new flagship store on 5th Avenue in NYC last week, and made heavy, but very different use of digital signage displays. The company hired Montreal’s Moment Factory to create “living, breathing installation, embodying the renegade spirit of Oakley’s …
Worst … Digital Signage Programming … Ever May 4, 2014 by Super User Ok, so maybe there’s something worse out there, but this was gloriously bad. And in my backyard. I was at the local mall the other day picking something up, and noticed this screen on a stick at an optical store entry. 1. They were just taking print ads, that are too busy even for print, and …
Facebook Makes It Easier To Get Its Social Content To Screens May 1, 2014 by Super User Much of the social media visualization done in digital signage has focused on Twitter feeds and particularly hash tags, but Facebook has released a new API that is intended to draw some of the attention to its own social streams. The Trending, Topic Insights, Topic Feed, and Hashtag Counter APIs were announced Wednesday by Facebook’s Public …
Video: Duggal Uses Animation To Drive Digital Signage Offer April 15, 2014 by Super User Here’s a nice example of an animated explanatory marketing video for Duggal, a big US printing/visual solutions company that has in the past couple of years added digital signage capabilities. This sort of thing, when well-executed, can do a nice job of laying out what you do and how you’re different. I know the Duggal …
Digital Signage Creative Vet Dorsey Seeking Public Office April 14, 2014 by Super User Stephen Dorsey has been around the digital signage space for a bunch of years – running the marketing and creative team at PlayNetwork in Seattle as far back as 2000, and is currently running the strategy, creativity and production firm Dorsey Studios in Toronto. Now he’s taking a crack at a very different pursuit – politics. …
Web Services Emerging To Help Push Real Time Content To Signs April 11, 2014 by Super User The technical stuff here is way the heck over my head, but a startup just coming out of private beta would at least seem to have a service that would intrigue digital signage software companies that use browsers as players and use, or want to use, a lot of live data. TechCrunch has a post …
Tapping The Social Media Firehose For Digital Signage Content April 8, 2014 by Super User When I spend time with consulting clients who want to have, or are upgrading, public-facing digital signage networks, the conversation around the content mix usually involves a discussion about what the client does with social media. Usually, it’s very little, because social media is this big, unwieldy thing that keeps shape-shifting and causing trouble. That’s …
