Company At Center Of Messy Walgreens Digital Chiller Deal Now Calling Itself CoolerX, And Touting (Of Course) AI January 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes A couple of US business publications have had stories up in recent days looking at the mess that has become the attempt to turn the refrigerated cabinet doors in Walgreens stores into media and sales promotions screens. That story has been pretty well-documented, but there are some new details available about how ugly it has …
ISE 2025 Sixteen:Nine ISE Mixer Sponsor Profile: Dise January 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes It is just a few more sleeps before the 2025 edition of Integrated Systems Europe starts in Barcelona, with the digital signage community kicking things off on the eve of the giant trade show with a Sixteen:Nine networking mixer. The sold out event – that took all of two hours – happens because of great sponsors …
Swatch Store In Milan Uses Series of Wall-Embedded LED Columns To Drive Experience January 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is a Swatch store in Milan with an interesting approach to LED displays embedded into the walls and between a series of product displays. More typically, stores seem to either use one big feature LED wall or have displays of these dimensions set up like horizontal ribbons. In this case, there are seven Samsung …
UK Electronics Retailer Currys Expands Its “Connected Media” Network To Almost 300 Screen-Filled Stores January 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes UK electronics retailer Currys is happy enough with what it has been seeing from its retail media network that it is expanding the footprint across its full estate of almost 300 stores in the UK and Ireland, with each of the stores typically having 100+ screens. The expanded Currys Connected Media network is a partnership …
Italian Solutions Provider M-Cube Now Using AI-Generated Music For In-Store Radio January 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Italian digital solutions provider M-Cube, one of Europe’s largest pro AV integrators, has started using AI-generated music for in-store radio in the luxury retail market that is its main customer base. M-Lab is described as an AI-powered music catalog designed exclusively for the retail industry, with all the music in M-Lab created using AI …
Giant LED Facade On Seoul Flagship Dep’t Store Boosts In-Store Sales, YoY, By 20% January 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes The rationale for large footprint LED displays in busy urban areas is almost universally about the number of eyeballs and the directly related opportunity to view advertising spots, but a giant wraparound billboard over the entry to a Seoul department store has a different, and super-interesting metric: in-store sales. The big, new Samsung-made LED display …
NRF, STRATACACHE Hoping To Draw As Many As 1,000 For Retail Media Conference This Weekend January 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE is again working with the National Retail Federation on a full education day on retail media networks ahead of the organization’s annual retail tech trade show in New York. The one-day conference held for the first time last year pulled 400+ people and STRATACACHE CEO Chris Riegel says this year they collectively hope to …
CRI Enhances AdLogic Retail Media Networks Platform Ahead Of NRF January 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes Creative Realities has evolved the retail media networks-focused AdLogic platform it picked up through its acquisition of Reflect, adding a new CPM+ module that it says enables advertisers and publishers to plan, manage and optimize campaigns in physical stores seamlessly and within a unified AdTech stack. “Retail Media Networks are reshaping the advertising landscape, and …
CGI’d London Pre-Opening Storefront Suggests What Could Really Be Done On Windows January 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is just a CGI job, but what’s interesting about this retail storefront concept is that could be pretty easily done – unlike some earlier clickbait-ish social media posts that looked cool but were either impractical or almost impossible to pull off in real life. It was promoting a store opening for a new London …
Franklin Instore, Elo Team Up On Managed Services Offer For Digital Merchandising December 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes The retail merchandising agency Franklin Instore has teamed up with interactive display firm Elo on a new “Digital Merchandising EcoSYSTEM” that pairs more conventional point of purchase marketing efforts with interactive displays – running with the idea of a “make once-use many” set-up that allows for repeated rebranding, re-messaging and re-merchandising a set-up based on …
