DOOH Network Targeting US Grocery Shoppers Adds 4,000 Screens In US Northeast January 13, 2022 by Dave Haynes The advertising screens in the grocery checkout lane thing has been around 20 years or more, and never seemingly had a lot of success … but an Austin, Texas start-up called Grocery TV appears to be getting traction. The company has announced a deal to add some 4,000 displays in a series of northeast US …
Three-Sided LED Column Is Towering Centerpiece In Chilean Flagship Store January 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes The visual centerpiece of the Santiago, Chile flagship store for retailer Falabella is a more than 16 meter tall, three-sided fine pitch LED column with a wide assortment of custom creative designed much more to deliver experience than sell stuff. The column is in a central plaza, surrounded by up/down escalators, and it may (or …
Beauty Brand’s New Andorran Concept Store Uses LED Columns As main Design Feature, Inside And Outside December 28, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is definitely one of the nicer applications of transparent LED technology I’ve seen applied to retail – a concept store for a beauty brand in Andorra. The digital experience side of the Julia Onix store was pulled together by the Barcelona-based creative technology shop Instronic, and uses semi-transparent mesh LED as the main feature …
This Edinburgh Krispy Kreme Has A Doughnut Hole Right In Its Window Video Display December 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting application of an LED video display built into the window of a Krispy Kreme shop in an Edinburgh, Scotland urban shopping mall – with three-dimensional creative built around the doughnut hole in the LED wall. The doughnut shop, says software provider embed signage in a YouTube feature, “is a modern take …
UAE Mega-Mall Adds Illusion-Driven Experiential LED Display In Central Plaza December 14, 2021 by Dave Haynes The first wave of anamorphic illusions on LED displays seemed to almost exclusively be associated with booked advertising on media company billboards, with a sprinkling of public art initiatives here and there. Now we’re starting to see these visual tricks – also referred to as forced perspective illusions – showing up as attractions and experiential …
Swedish Solutions Provider Visual Art Wins Deal For 15,000 Screens For Finn Retail Group December 13, 2021 by Dave Haynes Digital signage has matured through the years to a state that networks announced with 1,000s of screens is no longer big, encouraging news, but I still think it’s a pretty big deal to get word of a screen network that would hit 1,500 stores and have some 15,000 displays. The Swedish solutions provider Visual Art …
BrightSign, Four Winds Take Over 1,000 End-Point Screen Network For Big Plumbing Supplier December 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes BrightSign and Four Winds Interactive have released details on what would have been a very nice swap-out win for the two companies – updating roughly 1,000 end-points across the wide U.S. network of a big wholesaler of commercial and residential plumbing supplies. A case study brief on the deal suggests the supplier – Ferguson – …
Velocity Marks Halfway Point In 4,000 Screen Rollout On Redbox DVD Rental Units December 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes Probably like many to most people, I kind of assumed the DVD and gaming rental business was largely a thing of the past, and people just streamed movies and downloaded games. But a company called Redbox has some 4,000 vending machine stations across the U.S. – half now that have digital signage screens that promote …
Toronto Mega-Mall Uses PORTL’s Hologram-ish Displays To Run Virtual Fashion Shows Through Holiday Season December 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes (Image: Dustin Fuhs) An “activation” that’s somewhere between interesting and gimmick-y used one of PORTL’s transparent LCD set-ups to do a virtualized fashion show at one of Canada’s biggest shopping malls, starting this week and running through the holiday season. The retail property owner Cadillac Fairview has one of the shower-stall like set-ups in the …
Citizen Watch Uses Transparent OLED To Create AR-ish Product Display In Macy’s November 30, 2021 by Dave Haynes Citizen Watch, which makes guess what, has set up a dedicated store-within-a-store merchandising area in the timepiece section of the flagship Macy’s store in NYC, doing what it suggests is “one of the world’s first consumer-facing augmented reality product display cases.” The area has several displays, including a 3 by 1 flat panel video wall. …
