Hollister’s Live Beach Scene Video Wall In Munich Still Active After 10 Years, And It Looks It! July 2, 2023 by Super User Just a shade more than 10 years ago, shoppers lined up outside a new Hollister store in central Munich to see the California-inspired apparel and marvel at the huge LCD video wall just inside the store glass, showing live video of the Pacific’s waves rolling in Huntington Beach. Ten years later, the screens are still …
Vericast, Intel Partner On Context-Driven Retail Media Networks Solution June 27, 2023 by Super User The marketing solutions firm Vericast has partnered with Intel on what’s described as a new, programmatically-enabled digital in-store retail media network, having come out of a trial deployment in 50 c-stores. The solution pairs Vericast’s “intelligent targeting technology” and Intel’s Edge software platforms “to deliver contextually relevant advertising and product information throughout the shopping experience. …
Sao Paulo Bus Stops Add Video Conferencing For Nighttime Comfort And Safety June 26, 2023 by Super User Hat Tip Kelson Schmitt for pointing this out … It’s unfortunate this is necessary, but noting that, also interesting that a Brazilian out of home media firm has started adding cameras, microphones, speakers and videoconferencing capabilities to transit shelters along routes in São Paulo as a safety amenity for female riders. Eletromidia implemented this set …
Bank HQ Puts In Reactive Digital Koi Pond As Calming Oasis For Staffers, But Tops It With Big TVs??? June 23, 2023 by Super User My first reaction to this interesting set-up in a common area of a corporate campus is “Hmmm ….” Like tilting my head and rubbing my chin “Hmmm …” Like I get what the bank and solutions providers were going for, but not sure it gets there – creating a reactive digital koi pond that people …
ClearLED Seeing Interest, Demand For Its Micro Mesh LED Displays From Designed Space Community June 22, 2023 by Super User There was a lot of fantastic display technology on show last week at InfoComm in Orlando, but the dozens of LED manufacturers who were there had and have a running challenge of it all looking pretty much the same. A big microLED video wall looks amazing. But so does a 0.95mm LED wall using Chip …
Just Keep Zooming In On Visuals With This Large Format Interactive Display Software June 21, 2023 by Super User One of the more compelling interactive display solutions I’ve ever seen made me say Oh Wow! when I first saw it 10-plus years ago, and it did that again when I saw it down at InfoComm last week. A little Toronto company called Content Interface markets a handful of software-driven solutions for large-format displays and …
Liquid Crystal Supplier Confirms Large-Format LCDs Are A Sunset Technology June 20, 2023 by Super User One of the key suppliers of liquid crystal technology for flat panel display makers has pretty much confirmed what we all sort of know – that LCDs are a sunset technology and various flavours of LED and OLED are gradually taking over, first with TVs. The tech publication Tom’s Guide has a post up with …
German DOOH Firm Gets $23.5M In New Financing To 6X Screen Network Across Three Countries June 19, 2023 by Super User If you have been involved in the digital signage and DOOH sectors for many years, you’ll have made or heard observations and predictions that all those posters out there in shop windows would one day go digital. It didn’t happen as quickly as maybe expected because of capital costs and both brands and media planners …
InfoComm Day One Impressions: LED Everywhere, WTF Is MLED, And TCL Is Coming June 15, 2023 by Super User Sitting back in my hotel room quite impressed with myself for doing the wise thing, for a change, by getting the hell out of a cocktail party that had a live band, a very open bar and some old friends who were bent on having as much fun as possible at InfoComm in Orlando. Back …
Cooler Screens Suing Whale Customer Walgreens For $200M Over Halted Rollout June 9, 2023 by Super User The company that has been building out a retail media network based around “smart” transparent LCD chiller doors in major chains is now involved in a $200 million lawsuit against a whale account, drug chain giant Walgreens. Cooler Screens has filed an action in an Illinois state court, alleging Walgreens reneged on a rollout agreement …
