The Uncomfortable Truth About Interactive Digital Wayfinders March 31, 2025 by Jordan Feil Guest Post: Jordan Feil, Digital Signage Consultant After 17 years in the digital signage software industry, I’ve picked up a funny habit: I can’t walk through a mall, airport, or office building without checking out every screen I see. I notice how good the content looks, where they put it, if it works well, and …
Video: Barcelona Hospital Uses Data Visualization On Video Wall To Show Real-Time Pulse Of Facility Operations March 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes Data visualization on big video walls can sometimes be a bit of a miss because the only people who are really going to understand the shape-shifting and swirling visuals are the people who designed the experience and the people who commissioned it, but here’s a case where context makes it work. It’s a video wall …
MOTV Experiential Launches Library Of “Code-Painted” Floral Landscapes For Big Digital Displays February 19, 2025 by Dave Haynes Industry veteran Jim Nista has been playing for the last few years with the idea of painting with code, using computer scripting to develop set it and forget it digital artwork for large canvases like big LCD, OLED or LED video wall displays. He and another industry vet, Mike Arnett, last year set up a …
AV Tech Firm VuWall By PE Firm As Part Of Control Room Solutions Roll-Up January 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes Montreal-based VuWall, a substantial player in video wall control and visualization solutions, has been acquired by the private equity firm Naxicap in what appears to be a strategy to roll up complementary technology solutions for control room environments. Naxicap had previously acquired Guntermann & Drunck (G&D) in 2020 and Tritec Electronic in 2022. With VuWall in the …
Vancouver Airport Upgrades Include New Digital Gateway At Screening Checkpoint September 25, 2024 by Dave Haynes Canada is so freaking big it is easier and faster, based on my living way out on the east coast, to get to Europe than it is to Vancouver, BC, which is way on the west coast. So … I have not been through Vancouver’s airport in ages, and certainly haven’t seen in person some …
Ride-Hailing Service Uses Subway Data For DOOH Ads Suggesting Londoners Take A Cab Instead September 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes Triggered and data-shaped digital out of home advertising efforts have tended to be built around common attributes like the weather and geo-location, but an agency working with a German ride-hailing service in London took a very different, cheeky and relevant approach: use public displays to show rides were available in the area when the London …
Screenfeed Adds New Automated Content Highlighting Favorite Local Businesses And Services September 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Minneapolis-based subscription content firm Screenfeed has added the capability for end-users to add automated content to their digital signage screens that points out favorite businesses in their area, using data integration. Called Local Favorites, the community-focused tool displays top-rated places – like restaurants – in the immediate area, using online reviews that are built around …
Eyefactive Adds User Analytics To Interactive Platform August 28, 2024 by Dave Haynes The German interactive touchscreen software provider eyefactive has added analytics to its multi-touch content management platform, giving AppSuite customers detailed information about usage behavior on their interactive software projects. Now, says the Hamburg company, all user interactions on the device can be recorded and evaluated in various business intelligence tools such as Microsoft PowerBi or …
A Mind-Wobbling 3,357 FIDS Screens Being Upgraded At Istanbul’s Mega-Airport August 21, 2024 by Dave Haynes A staggering 3,357 55-inch LCD flight information displays are being deployed around Istanbul’s huge international airport over the next three years, evidently replacing what went in when the airport was built and then opened almost six years ago. It is more of an upgrade than a swap, with Vestel replacing the screens it put in …
Local Miami Government Funds Test Of Real-Time, AI-based American Sign Language Messaging On Airport Digital Signage August 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes The Miami-Dade regional government is investing $100,000 into a UK company that will trial AI-driven text to sign language content on digital signage screens around Miami International Airport. Signapse’s platform takes real-time data from airport information systems, converts it to text, and that text is converted to overlays or picture-in-picture windows on screens that have …
