Swiss Pharma Retailer Using Computer Vision To Shape In-Store Screen Messaging March 24, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s an operating example of a computer vision-based analytics platform being tied to digital displays and specifically used to drive sales of endemic products in a store. In this case, it is roughly 120 pharmacies in Switzerland under the TopPharm banner. The retailer is using the computer vision firm Advertima to shape content on two screens per store, …
NYC Property Firm Equips Reception Area With Transparent OLED Showcase March 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting use for transparent OLED displays – the reception area for a commercial property company based in New York. There are three see-through OLEDs tiled together, fronting some sort of display case with, I think, engineered structural lumber and maybe some building models. The content includes beauty shots of properties as well …
C-Store Chain Kwik Trip Finishes 1,000+ Screen Rollout Across US Midwest March 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes The commercial display company PPDS, aka Philips, has announced the completion of a smart digital signage rollout to some 700 Kwik Trip convenience stores across the U.S. midwest. The c-store chain started a modernization program in 2018 and now has more than 1,000 screens in place – all of them Philips D-Line displays with embedded …
TouchSource Monetizes Office Tower Directory Screens Via New DOOH Media Network March 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes A Denver company that has long focused on providing touch-based directory technologies to commercial property owners and operators has taken the interesting step of rolling up the screens as a DOOH media network. Directory screens in office properties are now part of what has been dubbed the TouchSource Directory Media Network. Says TouchSource in launching …
Massive Experiential DV LED Video Walls Focal Point Of New Project In Central London March 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes A new development going up now in central London, in the immediate vicinity of the Tottenham Court Road tube station, includes a building with a public atrium lined inside by four-storey tall 8K DV LED video walls. The Outernet London development is a feature of new build and redeveloped properties intended to make the area …
PPDS Helps Turn Suite At Dutch Football Grounds Into Flexible Meeting Space March 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is only nominally digital signage, but kind of interesting, nonetheless. PPDS – the company that sells Philips professional TV and digital signage products and solutions – has worked with Atlona and Panduit on a networked display solution for the corporate suites at the stadium that is home to the big Dutch football club PSV …
Another Big Robotic Video Wall Surfaces, But This One’s Safe Inside, And Done With Projection March 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of one of those robotic, kinetic, three-dimensional walls that has cubes that push out and slide back in based on programmed sequences. It is is the same motion technology as what was used for that ill-fated Coca-Cola spectacular LED display in Times Square, but the biggest difference with this one is that …
Silicon Valley Eyewear Store Uses Dozing Old Lady Robot, Donkeys, For Experience March 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes From the skewed perspective of people working in the digital signage and pro AV sectors, the delivery of in-store experience is all about the screens. But it is useful to get reminders now and then that a lot of store design these days has little or nothing to do with connected displays. Like this new …
Video Walk-Through Of Kuala Lumpur Airport’s Huge DOOH Display Upgrades March 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes Between press releases and PR pitches, and bumping into things online, I see lots of visuals of digital signage and DOOH work done in big footprint places like airports – but it is rare to see a full video tour of a digital upgrade. Nacho Perez Borjabad, the Chief Digital Officer for the media company …
Brazilian Mega-Development Uses Mosaic LCD Video Wall To Drive Leasing Sales March 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes Mosaic video walls used to be something that I’d see used quite often in digital signage projects, but the rise of DV LED seems to have curbed their use. Here’s a great example of one that went up at a sales center for a big real estate project in Brazil. Parque Global is billed as …
