NYC Hotel Hosting Billboard That Ate Times Square Now Sports Pair Of 50-Ft LED Walls In Lobby October 31, 2022 by Super User The Marriott Marquis in New York’s tourist mecca of Times Square has one of the larger LED video walls on the planet lining a full block of the hotel, and now that building also has two jumbo LED video walls inside, aimed at guests. The hotel – owned by Host Hotels & Resorts – factored …
Daktronics Expands “Light Mitigation Technology” To DOOH Ad Displays October 28, 2022 by Super User Daktronics has started marketing “light mitigating technology” that’s intended to help DOOH media companies get on the right side of municipal approvals, particularly if light pollution is raised as an objection by interest groups or individuals. “In most cases, light mitigation isn’t an issue, but when billboards are placed near housing developments or apartment buildings, …
Printed Ad Tarps Swapped For Lightweight LED Displays On Construction Hoarding October 28, 2022 by Super User Construction hoarding at the ground-level of building sites has always been home to different forms of advertising – planned with printed tarps or mesh, or via guerrilla marketers armed with posters and glue. A German company has a different idea – attaching lightweight LED arrays to building scaffolding, down low or up high. Our German …
LA Clippers’ New Arena’s Tech Plans Guided By Digital Transformation Giant Globant October 27, 2022 by Super User If you are planning on chasing the digital display business for the new home of the LA Clippers NBA team, your path probably takes you through a giant digital transformation company called Globant – which will “connect the technologies” that bring the vision for what will be the Intuit Dome to life. Says PR: Globant, …
Utah Jazz’s Home Arena Completes Big LED Refresh In Seating Bowl October 24, 2022 by Super User Vivint Arena, home to the NBA’s Utah Jazz, just completed a big LED refresh in its seating areas – adding a pile of new displays manufactured by Absen and put in by Revel Media Group, a content shop turned integrator based in Utah. The new LED boards at the Salt Lake City venue include: Upper …
PE-Backed LED Display Maker Watchfire Signs Makes Its First Industry Acquisition October 24, 2022 by Super User Large-format LED display maker Watchfire Signs has made its first acquisition since its own purchase earlier in the year – with the now private equity-backed firm buying the assets of Anthem Displays in rural North Carolina. Based in Elizabethtown, NC, Anthem Displays was a digital billboard manufacturer since 2014, majority-owned the last couple of years …
London’s Decaying Battersea Power Station Brought Back To Life As Mixed-Use Development October 24, 2022 by Super User The old Battersea Power Station – a huge coal-powered electric generation station along the Thames in London – has been revived after decades of sitting derelict, opening up 10 days ago as a mixed-use development that includes retail, dining and high-end residential. The giant brick industrial block has been restored and spruced up in much …
Giant Five-Sided LED Cube Used As Custom Digital Art Feature At NYC Gallery October 21, 2022 by Super User A giant LED cube in an otherwise empty, white gallery space in the Chelsea district of New York City was used recently as a visual art feature built around deconstructed international TV commercials. The Denominator exhibit at the Gagosian contemporary art gallery on W 24th Street is part of a series by artist Urs Fischer that …
DSF Plans Meet And Mingle, Mini-Conference And Tour For Nov. 2 In Dallas October 17, 2022 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation has another one of its regular (now that things are semi-normal again) networking events in the works, this one in a couple of weeks in Dallas. This one looks a bit different as there is a set of education sessions starting in later afternoon and then followed by a tour and …
Content For That Giant LED Orb In Vegas Being Tested In 1/4-Scale Dome In LA October 13, 2022 by Super User More details are starting to emerge about the technology and creative plans for the giant LED-clad orb going up just off the Las Vegas Strip – including who is taking the technology and creative lead on the project, and how content is being tested and previewed. MSG Sphere is an ambitious and expensive new attraction …
