Pennsylvania’s goofy wine kiosk program gets corked for good September 27, 2011 by Super User The word out of Pennsylvania is that the state liquor board’s wondrously dumb self-service, digital signage-topped wine kiosk program is done. Reports Penn Live (via Self Service World): The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board says its one-year experiment with wine vending kiosks at grocery stores is over because of a dispute with the contractor. The Liquor Control Board …
Back at my post September 26, 2011 by Super User I’ve read it is not the brightest idea to broadcast the fact that you will be out of town for several days, as thieves might be intrigued by that information. So I just kinda dropped off for a week and went on a holiday. It had been more than a year since I last had …
iSign gets LOI renewal from Canadian c-store giant for Digital OOH network September 13, 2011 by Super User The company trying to acquire, keep going and then expand a Digital OOH network that’s been running in Canada’s largest C-store chain says it has hit one of its key milestones – a Letter Of Intent to re-up for five years with Mac’s/ Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. iSIGN Media Solutions Inc. is pleased to announce that …
3M starts to show new digital signage hand with Pixel Qi investment September 12, 2011 by Super User When news came along that Jeff Dowell – who had been running LG’s digital signage effort in the US – was going back to 3M and working on digital signage stuff there, people were naturally curious about how 3M was going to play in the space. The company had been involved pretty heavily as a …
Digital OOH cinema’s Screenvision acquires UniqueScreen; now approaching National CineMedia in scale September 2, 2011 by Super User Cinema Advertising is kinda like a step-sibling to what we think of as Digital OOH or Digital Place-based Media. PQ Media, for one, rolls cinema into its research and forecasts for the overall Digital OOH sector. Now another company has done a business deal that also makes it a big fella in the space. New …
HP re-thinking its hardware business, which would include its digital signage efforts August 18, 2011 by Super User On the heels of a planned or unplanned leak, HP has issued a press release this afternoon confirming it is looking at buying a big UK software firm and largely getting out of the hardware business – repositioning the giant firm more along the lines of IBM and Oracle. HP today commented on the recent announcement by …
Pennsylvania’s wondrously dumb digital wine kiosk program in trouble August 15, 2011 by Super User About a year ago I wrote about how the state of Pennsylvania started rolling out a test of automated wine kiosks in grocery stores. Based on the description, images of the digital signage-topped cabinets and video, the only logical conclusion one could draw was that this was never getting beyond a trial. It looked gloriously, wondrously …
Brand marketing money shifting into stores for digital, other tools August 12, 2011 by Super User The shopper research firm GfK Interscope has released its 2011 Futurescope survey of consumer packaged goods and retailers, with the results showing more and more see in-store marketing as critical to their bottom lines. Ninety-five percent of the 300 people who did the survey this spring said they’re actively engaged in shopper marketing, with more than 80% saying …
Report says digital signage is booming; we say hmmm… August 12, 2011 by Super User All the reports that get issued on this space tend to blur together after a while, and the forecasts of growth and $X.X Billion values thrown at the sector just look like abstract numbers. I struggle, particularly, to get excited about forecasts from research companies that would have the most fleeting, drive-by grasp of the …
England’s riots: Using screens to fight the national lootery August 10, 2011 by Super User The riots and looting that have popped up around the UK since the weekend have been fascinating to follow from a safe distance. The acts are maddening, the implications disturbing and the aftermath heartbreaking for merchants and people who’ve seen their communities mindlessly ransacked. It got me thinking about a couple of things as they …
