No Podcast This Week; Scheduling Issues May 26, 2021 by Super User No podcast this week, sorry. A couple of planned chats had to be deferred for scheduling reasons. It appears that while most of us are still working at home and not out much on business, we’re still busy enough to need calendar shuffles. Should be back to it next week.
The U.K. Man Who Came Up With The Term Digital Signage Explains His Sin May 19, 2021 by Super User The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT I was scrolling my way through my Linkedin feed recently when I stumbled across a post from a guy who said he was the inventor of the much-debated term digital signage, with a bio photo that showed him wielding a bottle of champagne that was about the …
How VideowindoW Turns Airport Lounge Windows Into Digital Signage Displays May 12, 2021 by Super User The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT The digital signage industry has seen through its history a number of stabs at using window glass as a display surface – using films and projectors, LED overlays and even high-bright screens facing out from inside. A Dutch startup called VideowindoW is going at the challenge very …
The Prospects For Personalization In Digital Signage And DOOH: ACE Roundtable April 28, 2021 by Super User The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT As vaccination rates climb and we can seriously look at getting back to some normals in our daily lives, there’s a lot of discussion happening around what consumers will expect, and accept, in terms of personalized digital marketing. Things like appointment-based shopping and personalization grew more prevalent …
Anamorphic 3D LED Boards Are Amazing, But Limited. We Talk The Hows And Whys With Sensory Interactive April 21, 2021 by Super User The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT If you spend any time on Linkedin, or even platforms like Instagram and Twitter, you’ve likely seen quick videos of LED displays somewhere in Asia that are using anamorphic, three-dimensional creative to get viewer attention. We’ve seen spaceships look like they are emerging from the screen. Giant …
The Story Behind 25,000+ Screens In Sam’s Club Big Box Stores April 14, 2021 by Super User The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT One of the larger digital signage networks in North American retail has been quietly building upon in Sam’s Clubs, the big box warehouse club stores that Walmart runs in competition with Costco. There are 25,000 or so screens in the stores and the aggregate audience that sees …
How Azumo Takes A Lot Of The Heat And Power Usage Out Of Outdoor Full-Video Displays April 7, 2021 by Super User The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Generally speaking, the sun doesn’t play very nicely with LCD displays when they’re running outside. The brightness has to be cranked just to cut through glare, and all kinds of R&D work has to be done to effectively get out all the heat that builds up when …
Marc Van Eekeren On Why DetaiLED Focuses On Custom LED Display Projects March 31, 2021 by Super User The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT The direct view LED market is crowded with companies that are all, for the most part, selling variations on the same things. Because the technology remains unfamiliar to a lot of integrators, resellers and end-users, many companies have started selling LED bundles with fixed sizes and matched …
Renaud Lafrance On How Stingray Business Drives Retail Experiences March 24, 2021 by Super User The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT Montreal’s Stingray has built up a global business providing curated music channels for consumers on their cable systems and through streaming, and also for retail through in-store radio systems. But the company also has a fast-growing Business division that’s focused both on shopper experiences, using digital display, …
Chris Chinnock On 8K Being A Real Thing, And How Pro AV Gets Ready For It March 17, 2021 by Super User The 16:9 PODCAST IS SPONSORED BY SCREENFEED – DIGITAL SIGNAGE CONTENT There was a lot of skepticism and debate in the digital signage community when 4K commercial displays started coming on the market, with industry observers openly wondering if visual messaging applications needed that high level of resolution. Several years later, 4K is perhaps not common, but certainly …