Halifax Bank’s Splashy London Flagship Branch Features LED Halo, Interactive Stations November 22, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is the London flagship branch for the UK-based Halifax Bank – located on Oxford Street across the road from the Tottenham Court Road Underground station. The new branch has a long list of digital signage and interactive applications, all pulled together by the Manchester-area solutions firm Pixel Inspiration., which has been working for years …
Nike Opens Screen-Filled, Frictionless Shopping Flagship In NYC November 19, 2018 by Dave Haynes Nike late last week opened the doors to what it calls “House of Innovation 000” – a new six-level flagship store at 650 Fifth Avenue in New York that is built around making shopping largely frictionless, and uses a lot of screens. The 68,000 square foot store includes a center-hung, multi-level not-sure-what-I’d-call-it multi-sensory tower structure …
BrightSign Partners With BlueFox On WiFi-Sensing Retail Analytics November 16, 2018 by Dave Haynes BrightSign is the latest digital signage-focused company to build analytics into its offer, though it is via partnership and done a little differently than some other companies in the ecosystem. The Silicon Valley-based Roku spinoff BrightSign has integrated BlueFox’s WiFi sniffing technology into its range of digital signage media players. The pitch for what’s touted as …
Beth Warren Of CRI On How To Make Digital Signage Really Resonate In Retail November 14, 2018 by Dave Haynes Beth Warren of Creative Realities – or CRI for short – came recommended as a speaker for the DSF’s recent Coffee and Controversy event in New York. We’d never met, and while in New York, I seized the opportunity to meet up with her after the event to talk a lot about digital signage in …
Sony’s Crystal LED Wall Spotted In Real World Retail Install November 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes A reader, doubling as a volunteer operative, sent me pix from Toronto’s ritzy Yorkdale mall of an actual, real installation of that giant, gorgeous Sony “crystal LED” screen that’s shown up at trade shows for the last couple of years. The CLEDIS display – new tech that is micro/mini/something LED versus the normal surface-mounted LEDs …
Epson Marketing Spotlight-Style Projectors For Retail Settings November 7, 2018 by Dave Haynes Stumbled across this interesting new product being marketed by Epson – a laser projector that’s set up like a ceiling spotlight, but intended to show full visuals, as opposed to simply illuminating an area. Called LightScene, the $2,500 MSRP projectors look a bit like spotlights, but have 2,000-lumen, 20,000-hour projector engines that can push just …
YCD Latest Digital Signage Company To Add In-House Shopper Analytics November 2, 2018 by Dave Haynes Retail analytics seems to now be a thing in digital signage, many years after companies like Cognovision (Intel bought) and VideoMining popped up and tried to make the case for software partners doing integration for their screens. Many things have, of course, changed in the ensuing years – notably cloud computing, cheaper and faster hardware, …
GameStop Rolls Out Entire Retail Signage Network On Chromeboxes November 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes GameStop has long had digital signage in its video and PC gamer-focused stores, but now the full network of screens across 3,800-plus locations is running on ChromeOS and commercial Chromebox players. GameStop TV features product promotions, game previews, developer interviews and other customized content, as well as advertising. All content is targeted to video game …
Cinemex Using Creative Video Walls To Elevate Moviehouse Experiences November 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes Here’s a of glimpses at the ambitious and interesting digital signage implementations happening with the Cinemex moviehouse chain in Mexico. Across the 300 site chain, Mexican integrator Multimedia Corp. has put in 8,000 screens driven by some 1,300 players. The company is a longtime Scala reseller/solutions provider. At times, the content is also sync’d, even …
Rich Ventura Goes Deep On ALP – NEC’s New Retail Analytics Platform October 31, 2018 by Dave Haynes NEC Display has been fairly quietly involved in analytics for a long time now, but it just got very serious and noisy about that capability, with the launch of something called ALP – which is short for Analytics Learning Platform. It’s a retail intelligence program that uses cameras and other sensors, AI, big data, cloud …
