Almost 14,000 Digital Billboard Faces Across US: Billboard Insider January 19, 2023 by Super User Billboard Insider has a very useful post up that lists the 236 U.S. media companies it knows about that have digital displays in their inventory. The 237 companies account for 13,826 digital faces. The list is bulletin and poster. We have excluded transit and place-based. A face is a face. One digital face is one …
Japanese DOOH Firm, Broadcaster Partner On Live Content On Digital Boards Around Country January 19, 2023 by Super User A pair of Japanese companies have partnered on a service that can put live broadcasting on 75 big LED display boards located around that country – aiming to relay everything from live sports and concerts to press conferences. There is, of course, no great technical leap happening here. It’s just a signal input. But the …
LG’s Semi-Transparent LED Film Featured Over Entry To Healthcare Provider’s New HQ January 19, 2023 by Super User Here’s a nice use of LG’s LED on transparent film product – above the corner entry of a healthcare provider’s new offices in downtown Hartford, CT. The 14mm pixel pitch film day, which is 53% transparent, went up recently at the new HQ of Hartford Healthcare. LG sales engineer Michael Warner noted on Linkedin that …
LED Mainstreamed: Restaurant At Ski Resort Puts Wraparound LED At 10,000 Feet January 19, 2023 by Super User The argument that LED display tech has been mainstreamed is pretty strong when you come across images of a pretty big, 90-degree corner screen on a restaurant atop a ski hill in Kazakhstan. This is a 6mm screen, running anamorphic illusion creative, at the Shymbulak resort, the biggest ski hill complex in central Asia. It …
Melitron Broadens Product Line To Now Include A “Street Series” Of Outdoor Screens January 18, 2023 by Super User Custom display manufacturer Melitron has broadened its product line-up beyond the drive-thru menu displays that have been the Canadian company’s core product to now also include a “Street Series” aimed at use-cases like DOOH ad posters and directories/wayfinders. It’s an interesting step, as many of its custom display competitors have been getting into drive-thru displays …
Delta Air Lines Continuing Big Investment In Digital At Upgraded Hub Airports January 18, 2023 by Super User Air carrier Delta Air Lines continues to make a huge amount of capital and operating investments in digital displays at new or renovated airport terminals in the U.S. – the latest being a big upgrade at NYC’s JFK airport. Delta made big investments in airport infrastructure in 2022, with brand-new terminals at its New York-LGA …
35-Foot “Kaleidoscope” Art Tower In Dallas Built From 400+ Triangular LED Panels January 18, 2023 by Super User This is a 35-foot multimedia art tower that uses triangular LED panels to steadily change its appearance for visitors to a big multi-use destination in a suburb of Dallas. Called Grandscape, the 433-acre lifestyle center (which opened in April 2020) has 3.9 million square feet of retail, dining, and entertainment anchors. A post by a designer …
Eccentric Japanese Artist Peers Over Times Square From Vast Marriott LED Board January 17, 2023 by Super User This is an anamorphic illusion spot running on The Billboard That Ate Times Square – the giant LED that is the front face of the lower levels of the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York. These pseudo 3D spot is for Louis Vuitton and features the work of the eccentric Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, most …
New Salesforce Tower In Sydney Has Biggest Indoor LED Video Wall South Of Equator January 17, 2023 by Super User One of the more impressive lobby video walls I have seen is in one of the headquarters office towers of Salesforce, in downtown San Francisco. Now there’s an even more impressive variation on that – at the new Salesforce tower in Sydney, Australia. The new development is a 53-story building that is now the second …
ISE 2023 Sixteen:Nine Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Esprit Digital January 16, 2023 by Super User Integrated Systems Europe is fully back after COVID-era disruptions, and Sixteen:Nine is doing a Barcelona version of the networking mixer it has been doing annually at DSE in Las Vegas for the past decade or so. The event happens because of eight great sponsors, who help cover the considerable costs. I like to thank and …