How to do cinemas well … May 29, 2008 by Dave Haynes The guys at Minicom — whose blog is always much more than a soap box for the company’s gear — have a great set of photos showing a new install at a movie house in the UK. The install shows targeted screens over the concessions areas, ticketing and along the hallways in poster format. It …
Loto-Quebec screens May 29, 2008 by Dave Haynes I am at the main office in wonderful Montreal for a couple of days, mainly for the last of three Ingram Micro show and tell sessions. Spotted in a couple of stores, Loto-Quebec’s approach to digital screens. They did a trial with a local company, but ultimately opted to build out their own solution, cooked …
How to get noticed in a shopping mall – Go BIG May 27, 2008 by Dave Haynes Like many in this industry, I have at various times been involved in plans to put screens into big shopping malls. I have seen looney-tune plans to install screens no bigger than 27″ and other ones that cascaded screens along corridors. A lot of people have thoughts around doing them at or near the wayfinding …
Three-Minute Ad Age look at interactive LED boards May 27, 2008 by Dave Haynes Advertising Age online does a regular video feature called 3-Minute Ad Age that does a quick blast through a selected topic. There’s a piece up today about some cool interactive applications involving cell phones and the big, honkin’ aggregate of LED boards that Thomson Reuters has at NYC’s Times Square. Among the campaigns are those …
A different spin on hospital screens May 14, 2008 by Dave HaynesThere are any number of companies putting screens in hospital clinic waiting areas, as revenue generating plays, and other institutions putting screens in as digital donor walls and wayfinding. But an LA area hospital is the first I’ve bumped into that is using DS software to help streamline hospital operations. At St. Joseph Hospital in …
Digital signage photo gallery April 23, 2008 by Dave HaynesFormer Impart managing director Bob Grawet has started an arms-length website/blog, using Google’s Picasa photo gallery app, to showcase digital signage installations all over the world. There’s a bunch of pictures in there but he is looking for many more, and is promising not to hump any particularly company. It’s a nice idea to have …
Mapping the industry … at least the US industry April 3, 2008 by Dave Haynes Digital Signage Universe, a very active portal tracking the industry and run by content house Motionstream, does a map that shows where all the digital signage industry companies are located. It’s interesting to look at, though I am not sure how important it really is these days to pick a solutions provider that’s in …
Clear Channel LED boards hacked by graffiti artist March 26, 2008 by Dave Haynes UPDATE: See the comments. ClearChannel says this was a paid ad. “The skull phone digital display was a paid advertisement that represented themselves as advertising for an art display. The claim that anyone allegedly “hacked into” the display through the internet or by entering the physical location is totally false.” The plot thickens … I …
GlobalShop – various bits March 23, 2008 by Dave Haynes Day Three was a predictable dead zone – what with the Easter weekend looming, as well as a half-foot of snow heading for O’Hare. Here are some pix and comments on stuff I saw. Another company well-established in merchandising rolled out its own screen right at the shelf thing, though it was widly different from …
Half a screen February 29, 2008 by Dave Haynes Spotted at DSE … In the LG booth – what looked like half a 32″, sliced in half horizontally. Kinda weird. But kinda cool. Betcha it doesn’t cost half as much. It was well before the show opened, and there was no one around to ask.
