Delphi Display Systems Acquired By Another Restaurant-Focused Tech Firm, Toast February 22, 2023 by Super User Delphi Display Systems, which has been mainly focused on a variety of menu and ordering screens for the QSR sector, has been acquired by Toast, a Boston cloud-based software company that likens its products to a restaurant operating system. “As the needs of guests rapidly evolve and the importance of developing incremental revenue streams grows, …
LED Wall’s Generative Artwork Responds To Customers At H&M London Flagship February 17, 2023 by Super User The fashion retail brand H&M’s Regent Street flagship is using generative artwork on a giant LED wall that fills the full rear wall of the store on one of London’s fancier shopping streets. “Digital experience designers” Hirsch & Mann collaborated with the creative coding studio Variable to create a constantly evolving, generative artwork that interacts …
Chart: Who Is The Biggest Of Them All In DOOH & Retail Media? February 17, 2023 by Super User Merchant banking firm Solomon Partners – which through partner Mark Boidman is very active in guiding M&A in the DOOH sector – has published an interesting but probably flawed graphic that details what are the biggest place-based digital OOH and retail media networks in the U.S. market. The list of 16 companies details network size …
Projection Brings Levi’s Iconic Batwing Label To Life In Store February 15, 2023 by Super User This is a nice use of projection for retail by Dallas-based Glass Media, working with its client Levis. The advantage of projection – if the lasers are bright enough and the ambient lighting not dominant – is the ability to accurate blast visuals on an odd-shaped surface – like a giant Levi’s red tab branding …
Nexmosphere’s Sensors, Controllers And Toolkit Aimed At Making Interactive Retail Easy February 14, 2023 by Super User Way, way back in the day – in my dark period doing business development work for software companies – the company I was with did a fair amount of custom work that involved triggering content to screens using sensors. If someone came within a certain range of a screen, or lifted something that made a …
Valley Bank Uses Big, Curved Staccato LED Feature In New NYC Flagship Branch February 10, 2023 by Super User The U.S. regional financial company Valley Bank used a 70-foot curved LED inside its new Manhattan flagship branch to make a big statement in that market and drive awareness of its brand and services. The display wall is entirely inside, but fully visible through glass curtain walls at the branch, on a Fifth Avenue corner …
35-Foot “Kaleidoscope” Art Tower In Dallas Built From 400+ Triangular LED Panels January 18, 2023 by Super User This is a 35-foot multimedia art tower that uses triangular LED panels to steadily change its appearance for visitors to a big multi-use destination in a suburb of Dallas. Called Grandscape, the 433-acre lifestyle center (which opened in April 2020) has 3.9 million square feet of retail, dining, and entertainment anchors. A post by a designer …
Digital Signage Used To Pull Traveling Gamers Into Specialty Airport Lounges January 17, 2023 by Super User If I’m stuck in an airport because of delays or lengthy connection gaps, I’m finding a bar and a Bloody Mary, but a company called Gameway is offering a different time-killing distraction for airline travelers – a very 2023 version of a coin-operated gaming arcade. Gameway is building out a network of video gaming airport …
Swedish Grocer’s Flagship Adds Vast LED Display To Back Wall; Plus Digital Endcaps January 12, 2023 by Super User Here’s yet more evidence that LED has been mainstreamed by the people who design things like retail spaces – a supermarket in Sweden that now sports a 16-meter-wide LED videowall over the bulk food section. The 52-foot LED wall is in a flagship store of the grocer Maxi ICA, at the Stormarknad Universitetet store in …
Digital Signage Part Of Microsoft’s Expanding Omnichannel Platform For Retail January 12, 2023 by Super User Did Microsoft just get into retail digital signage? It looks like it, though only kinda sorta – via a new service called PromoteIQ In-Store, which the technology giant says will come available sometime later in 2023. It is part of the company’s broader retail media platform, PromoteIQ – a toolset that enables interactions with consumers …
