Awards: DSA Crowns Its Content Kings (updated) November 9, 2011 by Super User The Digital Screenmedia Association handed out its inaugural Crown Awards last night, and based on Tweets from Paul Flanigan of Saddle Ranch Digital (and a judge of the thing) and my own decoding, here’s the UNOFFICIAL winner’s list: Updated: Here’s the official list the DSA has now posted: Category – Point of Wait Gold: Complete …
Guest Post: Measuring the Advantages of Retail Digital Signage November 9, 2011 by Rich Ventura Shipments of digital signage displays to the retail sector are expected to triple by 2013, according to market research firm iSuppli Corp. That’s encouraging news in an industry that faces an uncertain holiday buying season. Yet digital signage alone won’t transform a particular retail store or chain. A thoughtful approach must accompany any digital signage …
rAVe: Visix launches monthly digital signage webinar series November 8, 2011 by rave Visix is launching a monthly webinar series on digital signage. Each 30-minute session is free for all participants and will cover both product-specific and general digital signage topics. Webinars will be led by members of the Visix Client Services Group, including software trainers and content designers. The first webinar – Mass Alert Notifications within AxisTV …
Augmented reality install lets mall-goers experience National Geographic November 8, 2011 by Super User As spotted by OOH-TV … This is a campaign for the National Geographic Channel, in Hungary, that combined augmented reality and a big LED board for an immersive experience that let people at a shopping mall virtually intermingle with wild and extinct animals. Very cool stuff, and reminiscent of that Fallen Angel campaign done for …
Four Winds’ interactive GoBoards now in 400-plus Marriotts November 8, 2011 by Super User Denver’s Four Winds Interactive has quietly built up a nice business with Courtyard by Marriott for the big GoBoard interactive displays you’ll find in the hotel chain’s lobbies. There are now GoBoards in almost 400 U.S. locations, and the latest version of the software driving the screens, announced today, adds some interesting new wrinkles. The …
ADFLOW strikes retail marketing deal with subsidiary of CPG giant Acosta November 8, 2011 by Super User ADFLOW Health Networks has done what looks like a very nice little deal to have its personal health stations – blood pressure monitors gone digital – co-marketed by a marketing company with a very deep reach into US pharmacies and grocers. The strategic partnership is with FrontLine Marketing, which provides solutions for front-end, pharmacy, and …
rAVe: Pro flat panel display market up 29% this year, says new report November 7, 2011 by rave Year on year growth in the professional flat panel display sector is at nearly 29 per cent, according to new research from Futuresource Consulting. The pure pro display market experienced quarter-on-quarter growth of close to 6 percent in Q3, and volume sales for the year so far is at 454,000 units, Combining pro displays with …
Giant Windows Phone turns on in NYC’s Herald Square November 7, 2011 by Super User Microsoft has a big Windows Phone event today in New York and as part of that – and presumably sticking around for a few weeks – the software company has erected a giant six-storey high handset at Herald Square. Reports NextWeb: This morning, Microsoft posted a video to its YouTube account to show how the …
HP’s new Photon Engine to paint giant 3D surfaces November 7, 2011 by Super User HP Labs, the computing giant’s central research arm, has announced a new product that allows vivid 3D images to be painted on what it describes as building-sized surfaces. “The Photon Engine paints any sized surface with precise dots of light to create a vivid way to visualize enterprise data in 2-D and 3-D,” says Carlos …
DPAA to help run advertising summit at DSE 2012 November 7, 2011 by Super User Digital Signage Expo has worked a partnership with the Digital Place-Based Advertising Association that will see the DPAA active involved in the programming for a full-day “Advertising Summit” at next year’s trade show in Lost Wages. The event will run on Tuesday, March 6, a day ahead of the show floor opening and the same day …
