Nike lights up 1,404-image interactive wall in Portland flagship store November 7, 2011 by Super User My Preset Group partner Pat Hellberg sent me a note, some pix and video from the new Nike Portland store, which has what looks to be a pretty slick and innovative interactive video wall. On the mezzanine level of the flagship store that JUST opened in the city’s downtown, at the top of the stairs, is …
Latest Ronin financials show company finally cash-flow positive, BUT … November 4, 2011 by Super User The latest financials from Wireless Ronin Technologies are a seriously mixed bag. Revenue hit a company record, and after many years the company finally had a cash-flow positive quarter. But sales also dropped by 25% this quarter, and the company also lost yet more money. Working capital is getting down to a relatively small number. …
Asics does slick digital domination wall in NYC subway station November 4, 2011 by Super User In the traditional out of home business, an ad campaign that pretty much takes over an environment is called a domination campaign. This is something of a digital domination program put together at the Columbus Circle subway station in New York. Inwindow Outdoor is known primarily for doing hybrid digital and graphic print programs on …
DPAA media summit coverage: agency CEOs weigh in November 4, 2011 by Super User Several posts are up on sister site, DigitalOOH.biz, with the extended points of view on the planning and selling process from three CEOs of big New York-based agencies such as Horizon, Targetcast and Kinetic Americas. What they have to say is pretty interesting. Anyone who sells in this space and visits agencies would benefit from …
3M tech opens possibility to analyze screen placement effectiveness in retail November 4, 2011 by Super User I am down in St. Paul, Minnesota with a group of industry smarty-pants … plus not-so-bright me … on the invitation of 3M. The display and graphics group at 3M is getting increasingly active and interested in the business possibilities for its technology and services, particularly as it relates to digital merchandising in retail. We …
Pix from LA’s DSE Huddle November 2, 2011 by Super User So, three time zones is probably a little too far to travel for an industry mixer, but geez, they were pouring pints of Shock Top! And there were wings! Ah well, I missed it by about 2,500 miles, but it looks like the Digital Signage Expo’s DSE Huddle mixer in LA went off well a …
Smartphones are changing the in-store digital dynamic, and that’s OK November 2, 2011 by Super User We’ve been hearing and reading for two or three years now how the rise of smartphones was going to change the dynamic in retail environments, and force some rethinking and reinvention of early in-store digital efforts. One-way pushes of content was looking awfully antiquated, and basic touch screens were going to quickly seem lame when …
Industry seminar and AM mixer set for mid-month in Toronto November 1, 2011 by Super User Taking the pint glass half-full perspective, I suppose it is good that I am so freakin’ busy that organizing a Toronto industry mixer remains stuck on the To Do list. It will get arranged at some point, I guess, though “When?” is a reasonable question. Any volunteers? It’s good then, that someone is getting the …
Guest Post: Digital Signage and the Internet of Things November 1, 2011 by Bas Smeets The technical community has been talking for a while now about the coming Internet of Things – when our business and personal lives see a fundamental shift in how we see and use the Internet. Right now, we use the Internet through computing devices like desktop PCs and laptops, tablets and smart phones. The digital …
Minority Report’s visionary doing DSE 2012 keynote October 31, 2011 by Super User [vimeo id=”2229299″ width=”600″ height=”350″] Minority Report references in stories about digital signage tend to set my eyes rolling, but a guy named John Underkoffler gets a pass – since he’s the fellow who came up with the gesture-based user interface in that 2002 Spielberg sci-fi movie. Most of the oh-so-tiresome Minority Report references we hear and …
