Is Google’s New Android Management API A Big Deal For Digital Signage? October 23, 2017 by Dave Haynes Google recently announced an Android Management API, designed for developers who want to integrate Android device and app management capabilities into their customer solutions, like digital signage. The API currently supports Android devices that are designed to perform a specific purpose use case, like playing out media. I’ve written a lot about Android, and one …
How Video Walls Monitor Your Company’s Performance In Real Time October 23, 2017 by Hoa Tong Guest Post: Tim Griffin, Userful In business today, tracking your company’s performance is vital to ensure its success. Organizations track online traffic, stock performance, social engagement, eCommerce, support tickets, as well as external information that executives need to be aware of to help them make better business decisions—e.g. currency exchanges, local weather, international news. With …
Westfield Starts Rolling Out New Digital OOH Ad Pods In Flagship Malls October 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes The US wing of Westfield has started rolling out new digital OOH advertising “pods” across its flagship shopping malls – with plans to put 220 units in place across the country. The high-bright, freestanding LCDs pods include 147 double-sided indoor units, 18 taller double-sided ones, and more than 50 double-sided ones built for outdoor. The …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Yahav Ran, Synect Media October 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes When I get asked about digital signage installations that I think really have it together, I tend to talk about Microsoft’s retail stores, and more recently, the crazy one by many 100s video wall at the check-in counters at Orlando’s airport. Turns out both projects were pulled together by Synect Media, a Seattle-area agency that …
UK Firm Touts The Fairest Of All Magic Mirrors October 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes Probably like most people, I tend to think a mirror is a mirror, and more particularly as a digital signage guy, I assumed a mirror display is just a display with any old mirror glass bonded to the face of the LCD. Well, yes and no. Turns out there’s a lot to mirrors. A UK …
Whole Facade Of Heathrow Superdry Shop Is LED October 12, 2017 by Dave Haynes I don’t think I’ve seen anything quite like this – a store facade in a shopping mall that is all LED, front and sides. This is the new Superdry shop at London Heathrow terminal 3 – so it’s airport retail. Only information I have is that it opened in July and is “doing well,” reports …
Projects: IKEA’s New Sheffield Store Includes Tidy Digital Menu And Promo System October 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the tidy set of menu displays IKEA has at its food service counter in the newly opened store in Sheffield, UK. The displays were put in by Beaver Group and run that solutions provider’s “signage.ninja” software, which I THINK is a front-end gateway with Scala under the hood. Continuing the nationwide rollout with …
LG Plants OLED Palm Tree At Dubai’s GITEX Trade Show October 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes LG is using flexible OLED displays – made into a digital palm tree – as the centerpiece of its stand at the annual GITEX consumer electronics trade show and conference this week in Dubai. The OLEDs are open frame (no rigid borders) so they can flex concave or convex. The company has also been heavily …
NYC Penn Station Adds Intersection Digital Screens On Amtrak Concourse October 6, 2017 by Dave Haynes Seriously busy, seriously dumpy NY Penn Station got a little bit of a digital facelift with the addition of a dozen digital totems in the Amtrak concourse, with the screens providing passenger information, bankrolled by digital OOH ad spots. The station handles a staggering 600,000 passengers a day, so it gets a lot of coveted …
Samsung’s Display Roadmap Adds More LED, More UHD, Ends Small And Square Screens October 5, 2017 by Dave Haynes Marco Nalli of Samsung invited a bunch of people in architectural/design/consulting up to the company’s Canadian head office in suburban Toronto on Wednesday for a bit of a lunch and learn, to talk about current digital signage product and the North America product roadmap. I made a rare trip away from the live bait shop/office to …
