Projects: Airport Kiosks Help Travelers Learn CPR Skills To BeeGees Tune February 26, 2016 by Super User This is one of the more unusual, and clever stabs at a public information kiosk I’ve seen come on the market – a CPR skill-testing device that gets airport travellers pushing on a torso to the beat of Stayin’ Alive. The American Heart Association’s Hands-Only CPR campaign features interactive training kiosks at six major US airports. Says a news …
Projects: PATTISON Onestop Adds New Video Wall For 280K Daily Commuters February 23, 2016 by Super User Here’s what a mature Digital OOH ad network looks like: 350 screens covering 97% of the potential area. That’s what PATTISON Onestop is at after more than a decade in Toronto’s subway system – with screens on platforms and in the stations. The media company has now turned on a nine-unit video wall at Union Station, the …
Projects: Samsung Opens Digitally-Rich, Product-Less Manhattan Flagship Store February 22, 2016 by Super User Hat tip to Rob Gorrie for flagging this via LinkedIn … Here’s an interesting take by Samsung on flagship store design – a new one that doesn’t actually sell stock any product. Called Samsung 837, the store opens today at 837 Washington Street in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District. Reports Fast Company: Instead of endless product shelves, the …
Projects: Giant 36-Screen Video Wall In New Shanghai Business District February 22, 2016 by Super User This is a massive video wall built in the new Hongqiao Central Business District in Shanghai, China. The 36 screens are being driven by IAdea’s recently announced AnyTile solution – which uses something it calls Distributed Graphics Architecture to push 36 screens with a total of 18K x 4K resolution. The idea behind AnyTiles is, …
Projects: UK Real Estate Firm Goes Paperless With Shopfront Listings February 3, 2016 by Super User Real estate firms putting screens in street-side windows is not new, but I’m not sure I’ve seen a spin on it like this letting agent (apartment rentals agency) in London. Kings Lettings’ new office in Shepherds Bush has a couple of high-bright 55-inch Samsung smart sign panels in the window, but each has a trio of …
Projects: Nestle’s Digital Accelerator Center In Dubai February 2, 2016 by Super User Food giant Nestle has something called DAT (Digital Acceleration Team) centers in key offices globally – facilities designed to monitor consumer attitudes about their brands using social media and data visualization, and also train and energize staff from other offices. A new DAT has gone live at a Nestle office in Jebel Ali, in the …
Projects: Printer Duggal Drives Digital-Centric Audible Holiday Party January 28, 2016 by Super User Most print companies, big and small, have struggled to transition from traditional to digital, but New York-based Duggal is a good example of one that is doing a lot more than just converting lightboxes to LCD digital posters. Consider the project Duggal just did with Audible, the audio book company owned by Amazon. The holiday party …
Projects: Risotto Ball Sales Explode After UK Chain Adds Digital Menus January 28, 2016 by Super User So first – there are fast food stops for risotto balls? Second, if you market them using digital menus, sales may get a very nice bump. That’s what happened last fall for London, UK risotto ball specialists, Arancini Brothers, when the chain converted traditional menu posters to digital displays. UK-based digital signage company Eclipse Digital …
DSE Announces Apex Digital Signage Project Awards Finalists January 27, 2016 by Super User Digital Signage Expo has released its finalists for DSE 2016 APEX Awards, which highlight great project work from the previous year. It looks like a good bunch, and the numbers of entries was reasonably high (I don’t know why more companies don’t “get” the marketing value of awards). Only nine entries for food and bev …
Navori Powering Massive 20K+ Tablet Ad Network In Saudi Arabia Taxis January 25, 2016 by Super User The Swiss signage software firm Navori has a monster rollout underway in Middle Eastern countries, using its on-premise QL management and play-out software on tablets installed as media screens in some 20,000 taxis, with another 30,000 to come. It would have to be one of the larger signage and digital OOH rollouts out there, and …
