Company At Center Of Messy Walgreens Digital Chiller Deal Now Calling Itself CoolerX, And Touting (Of Course) AI January 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes A couple of US business publications have had stories up in recent days looking at the mess that has become the attempt to turn the refrigerated cabinet doors in Walgreens stores into media and sales promotions screens. That story has been pretty well-documented, but there are some new details available about how ugly it has …
Tech-Driven Stress Pod At Retirement Home Helps Patients, Staff Get Calm And Then Carry On January 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes LA-based Red Dot Digital Media, Wallboard, and the playout hardware companies Bluefin and BrightSign have teamed up on what seems like a very unique one-to-one screen application intended to reduce stress levels. The Soul Happy Mind Pod is a therapeutic enclosure that the staff and residents of a Florida retirement community can enter, shut the …
Murals, Props And Sync’d LED Lighting Mashed Up To Promote Champagne On LA & NYC Storefronts January 23, 2025 by Dave Haynes The NYC media solutions company Inwindow Outdoor was known in earlier days for street-level storescapes that mixed rear projection on empty shop windows with printed vinyl graphics to turn distressed real estate into sidewalk billboards. But recently it has focused more on multimedia work that blends technology with art in interesting ways – like this …
Jakarta’s Int’l Airport Includes Huge 300 Sq. Meter LED On Arrivals Area Wall January 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes Perhaps inspired by the massive and stunning LED displays deployed in Singapore’s Changi airport, the baggage claim area at Terminal 3 of Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta has a huge display greeting arriving passengers. The 300 sq. meter LED display is operated by the OOH media company Pixel Group Indonesia and it runs advertising. I …
Delta Airlines Wraps Up FIight Info Display Design Across Its Airports System January 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes Airports and their major tenant airlines – the ones with dedicated terminals or a hub status – are some of the most active and most ambitious adopters of digital signage technologies, and if I had to name a U.S. carrier that puts a lot of focus on getting all that right, it would be Delta …
That Crazy, LED-First Footy Stadium Outside Riyadh Is Getting Built January 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes When multi-billion dollar, way over the top mega-projects like sports stadiums are announced, it is entirely reasonable to wonder if they’ll ever go beyond the press release phase. But arguably the most ambitious, digital-filled stadium to ever get announced is now in early construction in Saudi Arabia. The grounds for the plateau-edge Prince Mohammed bin …
Giant LED Facade On Seoul Flagship Dep’t Store Boosts In-Store Sales, YoY, By 20% January 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes The rationale for large footprint LED displays in busy urban areas is almost universally about the number of eyeballs and the directly related opportunity to view advertising spots, but a giant wraparound billboard over the entry to a Seoul department store has a different, and super-interesting metric: in-store sales. The big, new Samsung-made LED display …
This New Chinese Mall’s Signature Feature is Huge LED Waterfall Or Cylindrical Tower January 13, 2025 by Dave Haynes Finding details on projects that go up in China is rarely easy, and after seeing some images on a Linkedin post from an LED manufacturer, a few days after I got information suggesting that this was at a new urban shopping mall – Wuxi Yuanrong Plaza in Jiangsu Province, which is west of Shanghai. It …
CGI’d London Pre-Opening Storefront Suggests What Could Really Be Done On Windows January 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is just a CGI job, but what’s interesting about this retail storefront concept is that could be pretty easily done – unlike some earlier clickbait-ish social media posts that looked cool but were either impractical or almost impossible to pull off in real life. It was promoting a store opening for a new London …
EDM Artist Anyma’s Stand At Las Vegas Sphere Raises Content Game For Acts That Might Follow December 31, 2024 by Dave Haynes Much has been written about the visuals developed for live concerts at Sphere in Las Vegas – everything from amazed (Phish) to underwhelmed (Eagles). But the first electronic act to play the giant LED clad ball clearly put a huge amount of focus on the visual experience. The American DJ Anyma is in the midst …
