Manchester’s Airport Opens T2; Passengers Welcomed With Giant Display July 15, 2021 by Super User Manchester, England’s airport opened its new Terminal 2 today, and it is filled with the kinds of operational digital signage typical at airports, but there’s also a very nice 81-square meter media wall in a common passengers area. I can’t tell from the pix if it is LED or LCD. I assume LED, but the …
Micromobility Start-up Taps Broadsign To Drive Media Side Of Its Business July 15, 2021 by Super User Admittedly, I had to look up micromobility when I got a press announcement regarding a tie-up between the ad-focused CMS software shop Broadsign and a company called Swiftmile, billed as “the pioneer in micromobility charging infrastructure and technology.” The deal sees Broadsign’s platform driving the digital posters at specialized charging hubs around downtown Miami that …
Skinny LCD Used As Header On Nice Chain Drug End Cap For Allergy Relief Product July 15, 2021 by Super User This is a nice, sleek digital endcap developed by the packaging and fixture giant WestRock for a US chain drug operator (not sure which one). It’s a good use of those stretch or bar-type LCDs that have seen a revival in the last couple of years – probably owing hugely to dropping costs and less …
DC’s Union Station Gets Big, Ad-Driven Digital Display Upgrade July 15, 2021 by Super User Union Station, the main rail hub in Washington, DC, has been spruced up with a series of displays across the building’s three level – with a mix of travel, safety and weather information, supported by ads. The network is bankrolled by the media company New Tradition and was project managed by the LA consulting firm …
96M-Wide Visualized Data Display On Sydney’s Convention Center July 13, 2021 by Super User This isn’t new, but it is to me – a long, wide LED running visualized data as art on a permanent installation at the convention center in Sydney, Australia. The Datascape wall is 96 meters wide, or roughly the length of a football pitch. It is on a wall on what is known as Moriarty …
Samsung-driven Hair Salon Of The Future, With 50 Or So Screens, Opens In NJ July 9, 2021 by Super User The sheer number of hair and nail salons out there – what strip mall have you seen that doesn’t have one? – has always made the sector attractive as a vertical for digital signage technology. It helps that these environments have lotsa wait time, high loyalty and all kinds of high-margin products and services to …
Tokyo Airport Duty-Free Uses LED All The Way Down To Merchandising Counters July 7, 2021 by Super User It’s rare to see a new-build store kitted out with digital displays BEFORE it gets merchandised and opened up, so this is an interesting little video showing fine pitch LED used all over a duty-free shop at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport. The duty-free is working with the Shenzhen-based but Japanese market-focused LED firm Shisai Optoelectronics. The …
Globe-shaped MSG Sphere project marks milestone in Las Vegas July 2, 2021 by Super User There is a “topping out” ceremony planned for today at the construction site of the Madison Square Garden Sphere, the $1.8 billion entertainment and media venue going up in behind the Venetian and Sands Expo in Las Vegas. The globe-shaped venue is expected to be open by 2023 and it will feature what is touted …
World’s Most Beautiful (Arguably) Store Re-Opens With Precious Little Digital Display, And That Makes Sense June 30, 2021 by Super User What’s being described as the world’s most beautiful department store (they’ve clearly never been in the Kohl’s in Amherst, NY) has opened – or more accurately re-opened – in Paris, and what’s interesting to me is how much or how little digital display gets put in when design leads and budget is no serious obstacle. …
Start-up Monetizes Sidewalk Air Pollution Scrubber Towers For Cityscapes With OOH Ad Faces June 25, 2021 by Super User We’ve seen out of home media companies attach advertising faces to all kinds of things out in public – like transit shelters, pylons and sidewalk directories – but now a UK start-up has a solution on streets that pairs an ad face with an sidewalk air scrubber. The environmental media start-up Pluvo has partnered with KineticX, …
