Cineplex Digital Media Rolling Out Digital OOH Display Network in Canada’s Ivanhoe Cambridge Malls November 7, 2016 by Super User Cineplex Digital Media has announced it won an RFP process to install, maintain and operate a digital OOH display network at 21 Ivanhoé Cambridge shopping centres across Canada. The network involves nearly 230 digital displays at Ivanhoé Cambridge mall properties across Canada. The display solution is a combination of double-sided 86-inch “Floor Media” displays, as well as displays on …
Walmart Testing Giant Digital Vending Machine For In-Store Pick-ups November 1, 2016 by Super User There are multiple reports online, all picking up on a couple of reports, about a giant vending machine-like in-store pickup system being tested at a Walmart near the retailing giant’s head offices in Bentonville, Arkansas. The Buy Online/Pick-up In Store tower is a 15-foot tall multi-sided kiosk thingie that allows locals to order items online …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Leo Coates, The Coates Group October 26, 2016 by Super User In this episode, I’m having a chat with Leo Coates of The Coates Group, an end-to-end digital signage solutions provider that’s heavily focused on the quick service restaurant sector. The Australian company already has a footprint in 35 countries – everything from rollouts to trials. Now Coates has opened up an office and innovation centre …
NYC Morning Blitz – What To See? October 25, 2016 by Super User I’m in and out of New York really quickly this week for NEC, LG and an SEGD tour, but a meeting fell through and now I have a few hours on Thursday morning – when it will apparently be raining (pfffft) – to duck into a few places between fixed commitments and an evening dash …
Australia’s Coates Brings Its Digital Signage Offer For QSRs To North American Market October 3, 2016 by Super User It’s a big reach for an Australian company to establish a foothold in North America, particularly in a hyper-crowded market like digital signage. But that’s what a Sydney-based company called Coates is doing, with aims at building up a client list in the QSR business. The company opened its US headquarters last week in Chicago …
AT&T’s New San Francisco Flagship Includes Giant “Fluid Art” Digital Bulkhead September 28, 2016 by Super User The new store, at 1 Powell Street, is next to the popular trolley cable car turnaround area. It is AT&T’s largest retail store in the U.S., and will serve as the company’s West Coast flagship. This historic San Francisco building, built in 1908, has been restored back to its original Baroque architectural design. The store design and merchandising elements draft …
Estimote Puts Digital Signage System On A BLE Beacon September 17, 2016 by Super User Bluetooth beacons have been turned into interactive digital signage players by one of the largest manufacturers of the high buzz factor radio transmitters. The Polish start-up Estimote has announced a new product called Estimote Mirror, a dongle that plugs into the back of any display that has an HDMI and USB port (if they are next …
Key Copy Kiosk Shows What Much Interactive Retail Should Really Be About September 16, 2016 by Super User Here’s a great example of an interactive screen solution, coupled with a machine, that goes to the heart of what any of this “customer engagement” stuff should be about – making something faster, better and easier for consumers. In this case, it’s a kiosk that can copy a house, car or other key in a …
Whole Foods Goes Truly Digital With Signage At Seattle-area 365 Store September 15, 2016 by Super User Via GeekWire The tech news site GeekWire has a good piece up about the heavy digital investment made by Whole Foods at a new small format 365 store in Bellevue, Washington. The store has electronic ink price labels, digital weigh scales, interactive digital kiosks to facilitate wine pairings, a touchscreen-driven TeaBot and larger digital displays …
Three Hard-Won Lessons For Rolling Out Large QSR Digital Signage Projects September 12, 2016 by PhyliisM Guest Post: Gord Phillips I remember thinking when I first started putting together what turned into Canada’s biggest digital menu board network: “This will be easy. I’m a professional engineer and pretty good at DIY.” That was 2007, and turns out, it wasn’t that easy. I joined a very large QSR firm that year to …
