How Digital Signage Can Help Digitalization for Businesses October 27, 2020 by Dave Haynes Guest Post: Chloe Weaver, Allsee Technologies Digitalization is the process of converting existing business operations into digital form by applying new technologies. For instance, this could be a retail brand transforming their high street store into an e-commerce website, or a local fast food restaurant running social media ads instead of posting flyers through people’s letterboxes. …
InReality Launches Online Learning Center For COVID-Driven Safe Space Solutions October 23, 2020 by Dave Haynes The Atlanta-based venue analytics software firm InReality sees an opportunity for mashing up technologies to create Safe Spaces, and has developed solutions and advisory website that explains the hows and whys of doing that. The intent is to get beyond the pure gadgetry of devices used for things like temperature screening, and build a broader …
Beaver Trison Picks Up In-Store Tech Honors For Work On Made.com Digital Showroom October 21, 2020 by Dave Haynes Congratulations to Peter Critchley and the crew at London-based solutions provider Beaver Trison for winning the In-store Technology of the Year Award at this week’s 2020 Retail System Awards, for its work on the MADE.com digital showroom solution now deployed across the retailer’s European stores. Working with the tech manufacturer Asus, Beaver Trison used beautifully …
Managed Services Firm Velocity Acquires Grocery-Based DOOH Network Impax Media October 16, 2020 by Dave Haynes The managed services firm Velocity has gone into one of the vertical markets it serves by acquiring the small, grocery-focused Digital OOH ad network Impax Media. A Montreal company that bubbled up about five years ago, Impax does in-store advertising to shoppers at the checkout aisles at 49 grocery stores in the New York City area. …
Polish Apparel Retailer Modivo Launches Digitally-Driven, Video Wall-Heavy New Format Store October 14, 2020 by Dave Haynes This is an interesting spin on a digitally-driven apparel store – somewhere in Poland. The chain – called Modivo – has launched a new format that is heavy on narrow-bezel LCD video walls, and that uses something like an appointment set-up for shopping. The store, designed by the London creative agency Dalziel & Pow, sees …
Cineplex Digital Media Launches Machine-Learning Smart Digital Signage Content Engine October 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media has started marketing a new data-driven retail optimization platform called FLEX SmartEngine – using machine learning and a variety of data inputs to boost sales for stores and QSR operators. The built-in-house platform steadily analyzes what’s happening in and around physical stores to generate and deliver messaging based on shifting circumstances …
Levi’s Opens Digitally-Rich NextGen Stores In US, China October 13, 2020 by Dave Haynes Levi Strauss & Co. has started opening what it is calling its NextGen stores – new shops built around personalization and digital. The San Francisco-based apparel company put one of the first stores of this new format in the epicenter of digital – Silicon Valley – and in a mall where price is probably not …
Stradivarius Uses Lighting Animations To Drive Brand At Store On French Riviera October 9, 2020 by Dave Haynes More and more case studies and references are starting to pop up that feature direct view LED digital facades in flagship stores, but here’s an example of an image-conscious brand going in a different direction – using animated lighting. This is the Stradivarius store in Cagner Sur Mer, on the French Riviera. Stradivarius is a …
Ultraleap Debuts Free Software To Make Existing Touchscreen Devices TouchFree October 8, 2020 by Dave Haynes The UK tech start-up Ultraleap – which markets technology that merges camera-based hand-tracking with haptic feedback – has released free software it says enables existing touchscreens to go touch-free. The qualifier in that is to make the TouchFree software work, operators will need to add on a $250 camera/sensor or a $90 controller gadget. The …
Mood Media Quickly Out Of Chapter 11; Looking To BUY Other Companies??? October 7, 2020 by Dave Haynes I wrote back in July about Mood Media heading into the Chapter 11 Bankruptcy process, and kinda thought, well that’s the end of that. Wrong. The company went in and out of that process quickly and is now actively saying it is looking to BUY other companies. Bubbles form on my lips when I read …
