LA Clippers’ New Arena’s Tech Plans Guided By Digital Transformation Giant Globant October 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Planar Launches New Outdoor Fine Pitch Displays As High-Bright LCD Alternatives October 11, 2022 by Dave Haynes If you’ve paid attention to developments in LED display technology, you’ve likely concluded it was only a matter of time before pixel density, durability and pricing started to make the technology competitive with high brightness outdoor LCDs – used mainly for Digital Out Of Home ad displays and drive-thru restaurant promotions and menu boards. That …
4,000 Sq. Ft. LED Tunnel Switches On With Credit Union’s Domination Campaign At Dulles Airport October 7, 2022 by Dave Haynes The airport advertising side of Clear Channel has lined a passenger tunnel at Washington’s Dulles airport with some 4,000 sq. ft. of LED display and block-booked its use, over several years, by a giant U.S. credit union. The new Concourse C Connector at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) is called the PenFed Tunnel because the …
Spanish Tourism Hotspot Switches On 22M Digital Icon In Central Pedestrian Plaza October 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a new digital landmark installation in the city center of Benidorm, a tourist magnet city along a Spanish stretch of the Mediterranean coastline – a 22-meter-tall cylinder clad in semi-transparent LED. The structure in a pedestrian plaza is used as sold advertising space, but also as part of the backdrop for public events …
