Digital Signage Display Market Growing At 8.3% Annual Clip: IHS July 12, 2016 by Dave Haynes The research firm IHS has pushed out new data suggesting the global market for digital signage and professional displays is now growing at a compound annual growth rate of 8.3 percent, with 4.4 million units moved last year and 7.7 million expected to move by 2020. This year, sales in what are called public displays were …
Projects: Low-Rent Digital Shelf Talkers At Canadian Tire July 12, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is about as low-rent as I’ve seen for digital signs in a retail environment, save for TVs and DVDs/VCRs just plopped on tables or shelves. These are digital photo frame black-taped into coroplast frames, running endlessly repeating product promo loops (with tinny audio) in the cleaning supplies aisle at my local Canadian Tire. What …
Projects: 80 Million Pixels Light Up At Dubai’s New City Walk Market July 12, 2016 by Dave Haynes This looks kind of amazing – 12 football fields worth of digital visuals on LED and projection in the new Meraas City Walk market in Dubai. Overall, the Meraas project involves more than 30 LED installations in 21 different formats and nearly 30 high-res projectors totalling over 80 million pixels. It’s easily one of the most ambitious digital …
Projects: London’s Waterloo Station Gets Slimed By Ghosts July 11, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is well done – an immersion zone on London’s Waterloo Station promoting the Ghostbusters remake. The campaign broke today in the rail station, launched by Sony Pictures and run via ad-concession owner JCDecaux today. A news release says: The campaign activity is augmented with a variety of global media-firsts debuting at the Waterloo Station spectacular. Oozing, …
Visionect’s Epaper Digital Door Signs Win Red Dot Industrial Design Award July 7, 2016 by Dave Haynes The little E Ink meeting room signs marketed by Slovenia’s Visionect are among the winners of a big industrial design award competition, called Red Dot. Visionect’s Joan Meeting Room Assistant won in the Product Design category of the awards. The competition attracted almost 5,200 entries this year, from 57 countries, and a look through the winners has …
Projects: Cafetiero Frames Up Its Digital Menus July 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is the digital menuboard set-up for a small German cafe chain called CAFETIERO, which is run by the exhibitions and event catering firm The Stockheim Group. The company uses 40-inch displays for menus, and nicely surrounds them in decorative picture frames. The landscape display panels run menu items and portrait screens run promotions. The company is also testing …
16:9 Podcasts: Jennifer Davis, Leyard July 6, 2016 by Dave Haynes In this episode, I’m speaking with Jennifer Davis, who is Chief Marketing Officer for Leyard and also the VP of Marketing and Product Strategy for Planar, which is now owned by Leyard. So she’s one busy puppy these days. Jennifer grabbed us a meeting space on the exhibit floor at InfoComm last month, and we …
16:9 Podcasts: Rick Cope, NanoLumens June 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes In this episode, I’m speaking with Rick Cope, the founder and CEO of NanoLumens, which makes and markets its own line of unique indoor and outdoor LED displays from its facilities in Atlanta. Rick has a really interesting background, coming out of the US Marines and being in the thick of things during Desert Storm, …
Projects: BMO Lights Up Twin Video Walls In Toronto’s PATH System June 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes This is a pair of 3 by 5 video walls, using 55-inch narrow bezel displays, in the underground PATH concourse system/maze that connects most of the big office towers in downtown Toronto. Done for BMO Financial Group, the wall is in the walkway system at BMO’s flagship location, First Canadian Place. The guys who put it …
NanoLumens’ AWARE Adds CMS, Android Media Player To Indoor LED Display Offer June 20, 2016 by Dave Haynes The lines between hardware and software makers in digital signage continue to blur, with news that Atlanta-based LED display manufacturer NanoLumens now has a content management and remote management software suite, and a dedicated Android media player that will ship with its new displays. This is a bit along the lines of how the LCD …
