Hughes Wins BurgerFi Deal Bundling Digital Signage With Network Infrastructure, Managed Services February 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Here’s a good example of how a service provider can win digital signage deals by also bringing a lot of other capabilities to the dance – Hughes Network Systems enabling the guest experience in the BurgerFi restaurant chain by providing all the networking technology, signage software and managed services. The fast casual chain and a …
Touchscreens, Other Surfaces Present Little Or No COVID-19 Transmission Risk: Research February 23, 2022 by Dave Haynes It’s been roughly two years since COVID-19 became a daily discussion and the industry started wondering what all this would mean to business and the use of interactive technologies that encouraged touch actions. In the early days of the novel-coronavirus pandemic, it was widely thought that the pathogen was spread by touching surfaces, prompting no …
A Regular Billboard Pylon Won’t Do When It’s Beside “The Most Beautiful Building On Earth” February 23, 2022 by Dave Haynes Large format Digital OOH LED displays along roadways tend to big rectangles stuck atop or on the sides of buildings, or perched above a utilitarian pole or column, so it’s a bit unusual to see a set-up that looks like it came out of a creative design studio. In this case, the extra effort and …
Custom LCD Maker Bluefin Starts Marketing Open OS All-In-One Panels February 22, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Atlanta-area custom LCD manufacturer Bluefin International has been around the industry for several years marketing a variety of retail-centric screens that have BrightSign media play-out hardware built-in, but now the company has added a series with a dual CPU set-up that can run Android 10 or different flavors of Linux like Debian. Bluefin’s new …
High Five: PPDS Donates Commercial Displays To Dutch Wing Of Salvation Army February 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes A virtual high five to display marketer PPDS for donating five of its Philips commercial displays to the Dutch wing of the Salvation Army charity, to be used for teaching and messaging at community centers in less affluent areas of the Netherlands. The screens – ranging from 75” D-Line digital displace through to 75” Philips …
Outdoor Mesh LEDs Now Bright Enough For Daytime Applications February 17, 2022 by Dave Haynes Semi-transparent mesh LEDs that have mainly been used in windows or inside buildings are now a combination of bright enough and light enough to retrofit buildings and use as 24/7 advertising and marketing machines. Manufacturers used to tell me mesh LEDs were great for nighttime, but didn’t necessarily have the lighting power to overcome direct …
E Ink Gets Anti-Light Pollution Certification; Don’t Expect LED DisplayCos To Follow Suit February 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes With most outdoor LED display manufacturers making brightness a key selling attribute, there’s not much chance of any of them joining E Ink in being certified by an organization that is all about combatting light pollution. Taiwan-based E Ink – by most if not all measures the market leader in e-paper tech – has announced …
LG Broadens NFT Digital Art Partnership With Blackdove To Include Corporate Projects February 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes LG has extended a partnership with the digital art curation platform Blackdove from residential into commercial digital signage projects, making it possible to put large format digital artworks on to video walls in venues like office tower lobbies and corporate reception areas. Available in markets worldwide starting this quarter, says PR, Blackdove curation software can …
Volta Expanding Its DOOH Ad-Driven Charging Totem Network To 500+ Walgreens Lots In US February 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes It is easy to imagine the folks at Peerless-AV are having a good February, given the announcement by the DOOH media firm Volta that its EV charging kiosks will be deployed outside some 500 Walgreens stores in the U.S. The Volta display totems/charging stations are supplied by Chicago-based Peerless-AV, which is mainly known in digital …
Houston’s New Smart City Display Network Generates Revenue By Selling Viewer Data February 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Kiosk industry follower and consultant Craig Keefner has an interesting post up on one of his sites about how a smart city media company makes money from digital display smart totems it puts in for free in large cities. The post in Design Smart City looks into a deployment of 25 kiosks by IKE Smart …
