Shenzhen’s LP Display Marketing DV-LED Posters Hardened Against Damage, Abuse February 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes Email pitches come in day and night from lesser known Chinese DV-LED display manufacturers, showing me their versions of displays and infrastructure. I look at them, but it’s rare when there’s anything new to write about. And really, most of the people e-mailing seem to want me to batch-order product. Press is secondary. But there …
Austrian Shoe Outlet Gets Beyond The Rectangle With Interesting Video Wall February 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a really nice outlet shoe store in Feldkirchen, Austria that has an interesting mosaic video wall at the checkout and service area, and works other displays into the store fixtures. Designed by umdasch Store Makers, the legero united “shoemakers outlet” puts four brands – legero, superfit, VIOS and Think! – under one new …
inLighten’s Orbit Puts Multiple Promos On Screen At Once; Then Makes It Interactive January 29, 2021 by Dave Haynes Stumbled across this interesting retail application by the upstate New York digital signage CMS and solutions firm inLighten. It’s very reminiscent of the wave of social media visualizations from a few years ago that scraped Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest feeds to put various posts on to a digital canvas, and give them a little …
Video: How A Dutch Butcher Uses Queue Mgmt Software, Screens To Handle Customers January 27, 2021 by Dave Haynes I was on a call yesterday talking about how some of the most interesting work we’ve seen lately in digital signage probably looks pretty boring to people outside the industry – notably the use of queue management software for safer shopping. This is a really good video – albeit Dutch with English subtitles – showing …
Austrian Bank Uses Abstract LED Arrays, Inside And Out, To Drive Customer Experience January 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a nice indoor and outdoor LED set-up at by the Austrian bank Raiffeisenlandesbank, in Vienna. A half-round vertical stack over the entry is peppered with LED tiles in abstract array, and that theme carries inside the street-level glass windows, where there are more LEDs in equally unstructured patterns. The Austrian CMS software firm …
Get A Useful Video Glimpse Inside Ray-Ban Flagship In NYC January 19, 2021 by Dave Haynes Here’s a great example of how you don’t need a camera, lights and sound crew to produce a useful video about a digital signage project. This is Samsung’s Parrish Chapman, who I think leads the retail sector for the company’s pro display division in the U.S., walking and talking his way through the Ray-Ban sunglasses …
UltraSense Shows Interactive Sensors That Can Hide In Merchandising Fixture Material January 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes It is taking forever, but at some point we will all go back to a new version of normal retailing and other routine, day-to-day activities. That will also mean a return of interesting in simple but effective things like interactive merchandising. A Silicon Valley startup, UltraSense Systems, is a CES 2021 virtual exhibitor this week, …
Etisalat’s Dubai Mall Store Is Floor To Ceiling LED January 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes And we’re back, kinda sorta gradually … Happy 2021! The wireless carrier Etisalat is based in the United Arab Emirates, and is the case with many or most high visibility efforts in Dubai, the company’s new flagship store in the Dubai Mall is seriously over the top with digital displays. It appears the store has …
Video: Fantastic Application Of In-Store Digital And Experience At Warsaw Concept Store December 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is a video that walks viewers through the pretty fantastic digital retailing set-up for the Warsaw concept and flagship store of the apparel retailing chain Modivo. I wrote about this a few weeks ago, but only had images to work off. The store is HEAVILY driven by digital, from LED on the store’s mall …
DOOH Start-ups Partner On Ad Network Creating Projected Billboards In Windows December 17, 2020 by Dave Haynes From the everything old is new again file … Many, many years ago there were a few media companies leasing distressed real estate in malls and on busy streetscapes to create what you might call pop-up, projection-driven billboards using window glass. You’d see media campaigns replace windows that were papered-over, the spaces waiting to be …