Atlanta’s High Street Collective Launches Living Retail Lab (And It Has A Bar!) June 6, 2019 by Dave Haynes The retail innovation consultancy HighStreet Collective has launched what it calls a Living Retail Lab, a unique project inside a city market in High Street’s hometown of Atlanta. The boutique consultancy has also formalized a partnership with NEC, to use that company’s retail-centric intelligence analytics platform, called ALP, at the lab. Instead of a pure lab …
LCD TV Shipments From China Increased 10X In Past Year April 30, 2019 by Dave Haynes Chris Riegel, CEO of STRATACACHE, had a guest post on here a few weeks ago about the very rapid rise of China as a large-format LCD display manufacturer, and its implications. Here’s more evidence of that sudden rise: Business information provider IHS Markit has a new report out suggesting shipments of large format LCD TVs from China …
DSE 2019 Booth Previews: Quividi Showing Its Real-time Audience Analytics For Digital Signage March 12, 2019 by Dave Haynes QUIVIDI – DSE Booth Number 3209 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Because Quividi is the industry standard in real-time audience & content analytics for digital signage and visual retail, with over 600 end-customers and 1 billion people counted every month in 80+ …
JCDecaux Builds Its Own Audience Measurement Platform For Digital Airport Media February 27, 2019 by Dave Haynes Out of home ad giant JCDecaux has launched an audience measurement system for the airport industry, plainly called Airport Audience Measurement, or AAM. The platform, says the media company, was developed to offer advertisers and agencies standard metrics throughout the world. It was “designed in collaboration” with Veltys, which does data analysis, processing and modelling. Besides …
Sheer Footprint Of Flat Panel Displays Grew More Than 10% In 2018 – IHS Research January 28, 2019 by Dave Haynes Global shipments of large LCD panels rose again in 2018, as did the sheer square footage of display footprint, says the research firm IHS Markit. Despite concerns about over-supply in the market, area shipments increased by 10.6 percent to 197.9 million square meters compared to the previous year, driven by TV and monitor panels. Says …
What Research Says Is Working With Digital Signage In Retail Banking January 9, 2019 by Dave Haynes This week we look at how the financial services industry is using digital signage in branches, and more to the point, what works and why. Angela Vanderburg is the Digital Practice Lead for Consumer Banking and Retail Financial Services for Q Division, the retail-focused digital strategy consultancy that was launched by STRATACACHE. She’s a shameless …
Global Flat Panel Sales Headed For Big Dip: IHS Markit Research November 22, 2018 by Dave Haynes The flat panel display equipment market is forecasted to be heading into a rough patch, as manufacturers wait for demand to catch up with supply. Market research firm IHS Markit says flat panel display sales are expected to fall from $20.2 billion in 2017 to $14.0 billion in 2020, declining at a compound annual rate of …
BrightSign Partners With BlueFox On WiFi-Sensing Retail Analytics November 16, 2018 by Dave Haynes BrightSign is the latest digital signage-focused company to build analytics into its offer, though it is via partnership and done a little differently than some other companies in the ecosystem. The Silicon Valley-based Roku spinoff BrightSign has integrated BlueFox’s WiFi sniffing technology into its range of digital signage media players. The pitch for what’s touted as …
Mall Research Suggests Targeted Digital OOH Ads Can Drive Double-Digit Store Sales November 15, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here is a too-rare example of a brand or brands actually sharing field research data based on the cause and effect of Digital OOH mall advertising on sales. The brand ventures wing of the big shopping mall concern Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) did a pilot program this fall with the French analytics firm Quividi to test assumptions that …
Rich Ventura Goes Deep On ALP – NEC’s New Retail Analytics Platform October 31, 2018 by Dave Haynes NEC Display has been fairly quietly involved in analytics for a long time now, but it just got very serious and noisy about that capability, with the launch of something called ALP – which is short for Analytics Learning Platform. It’s a retail intelligence program that uses cameras and other sensors, AI, big data, cloud …
