Listen To Coffee And Controversy 2018 November 7, 2018 by Super User I was in New York last week for the Digital Signage Federation’s annual Coffee and Controversy breakfast event – a panel discussion that each year brings together some of the most influential leaders in the digital signage industry. It was the biggest one to date, with some 225 people turning out at Google’s NYC offices …
Rich Ventura Goes Deep On ALP – NEC’s New Retail Analytics Platform October 31, 2018 by Super User NEC Display has been fairly quietly involved in analytics for a long time now, but it just got very serious and noisy about that capability, with the launch of something called ALP – which is short for Analytics Learning Platform. It’s a retail intelligence program that uses cameras and other sensors, AI, big data, cloud …
Rick Wood On The Eight Second Rule For Transit Displays, And E-Paper At Your Bus Stop October 24, 2018 by Super User Rick Wood’s company was founded to bring some order and logic to how mass transport systems present information – like routes and schedules – to passengers. It was a tall order for CHK America – because many or most transport authorities had their own way of doing things, and not that many were particularly good …
Freshwater Founder Matt Downey On Retail Tech And The Opportunity He Sees In Epaper October 17, 2018 by Super User Matt Downey’s time in digital signage traces way, way back to the days when Premier Retail Networks was, by far, the big dog in putting screen networks in retail environments. His time with PRN – working with clients like Walmart – eventually led him into working directly for one of his big grocer clients. Not …
The Digital Signage Future (And Present) Is Managed: Industry Vet Jeff Martin October 10, 2018 by Super User Jeff Martin has been around the digital signage industry for pretty much as long as the industry has existed – running the ops side of some very large retail networks. He was one of the co-founders of SignStorey, which at its peak ran screen networks in a wide range of groceries across the United States …
Peter Livesey Discusses Esprit Digital’s Rise From The London Underground October 3, 2018 by Super User Anyone with technical chops who uses a subway system to get around would understand that those are seriously challenging environments to put in sensitive display technology – and the UK display technology company Esprit Digital effectively got its start in digital signage doing just that. If you have been in the signage market for a …
Mark Bennett Lays Out How MicroGigantic Does Digital Storytelling For Brands September 26, 2018 by Super User In an industry that has, for years, had people endlessly blabbering away about how Content Is King – my God that’s clever! – it’s amazing to me how I can count the number of pure-play digital signage creative shops on one hand. MicroGigantic is one of those rare shops – a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based boutique agency …
Hongwei Liu On What Works And Doesn’t In Digital Wayfinding, And Mappedin’s Rapid Growth September 19, 2018 by Super User Wayfinding is one of those core technologies that make consumer lives better and easier – helping people locate where they want and need to go in places like shopping malls, airports, health care facilities and higher ed campuses. There are numerous software companies that include wayfinding capabilities in their platforms, but only a handful that …
From The Archive: Michael Schneider On Experiential Digital Design September 12, 2018 by Super User No new podcast this week … sorry. I had two postponed interviews last week, combined with a short work week and then me spending two of those four days in a succession of airplanes getting to and from a client. I’m kinda remote now, and so are they. I have two chats scheduled for Thursday, …
Why Big Retailers Like Whole Foods Are Deploying Digital Endcaps And Shelf-Edge Displays September 5, 2018 by Super User Retail is one of the most-chased vertical markets in all of digital signage, but if you ask people who really know this tech, but also really know retail, they’ll tell you they’ve rarely seen it done well, or right. I tend to agree, and sometimes its not the whiz-bang flashy stuff that makes a difference, …
