Projects: An LED Veil And LED Floor Energize Kuwait City Mall Expansion May 15, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a series of gorgeous curved displays in The Avenues mall, a mega mall in Kuwait City. The project, called Electra, was put together by the solutions provider StandardVision in a new part of the shopping center. There is a 360 degree, 600 square meter immersive LED video veil and an interactive LED floor. All …
Aisle-Topper LED Ribbons For Hershey In Big Box Retailing May 7, 2018 by Dave Haynes Not a huge fan of shelf-level LED strips because the resolution isn’t there for close viewing, and the little LED light chips will get the crap beat out of them, but I do like the big aisle-topper ribbon display implementation at a big-box store somewhere, by the LA-area company AWM Smart Shelf. To be fair, …
Microsoft Invests Big In Retail Interactive At Canadian Best Buys May 1, 2018 by Dave Haynes Microsoft has bankrolled and installed a series of high-profile product demo stations at eight Best Buys across Canada – presumably their primo, high-traffic stores. Each of the stores has the same installation of three kiosks, which use proximity sensors to activate marketing spots and adjust how the demo experiences operate based on the number of …
Projects: Giant LED Tower Visually Dominates Central Court In Oman Mall April 27, 2018 by Dave Haynes The is what’s touted as the biggest LED tower in the Middle East, a 40-foot tall by 15 foot wide structure that also has an LED floor surround, now up and running at the Muscat Grand Mall in Oman. The tower which used 4mm LEDs and adds up to 263 square meters of visual canvas, …
Mvix Integrates Digital Signage Solution With Cannabis Tech Platform MJ Freeway April 25, 2018 by Dave Haynes More and more digital signage software companies are starting to catch on to how the cannabis industry presents a lot of opportunity for menu boards, promo displays and interactive product information stations. A few companies – existing and start-ups – are already serving the space with pure-play products and services, or with functionality and partnerships …
SICOM Picks Up Jamba Juice’s Digital Menu Board Business April 20, 2018 by Dave Haynes They don’t get a lot of attention, or make much if any marketing noise in the digital signage industry, but a Philly area company called SICOM is quietly building up a nice portfolio of digital display clients in the QSR space. SICOM has announced that Jamba Juice has selected it as the exclusive provider of digital menu boards …
Projects: Mosaic Video Walls At Stella McCartney Flagships April 18, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is the video wall set-up being put in at 11 Stella McCartney flagship stores across Europe, the US and Asia, highlighting the spring and summer collections for the fashion house. UK integrator Freehand put the project together, developing visual interesting mosaics instead of just grouping them in big rectangles in the high street windows. …
Menu Board Hack – Using Extending Mounts To Compensate For Bad Design April 9, 2018 by Dave Haynes Spotted by a regular reader at a food stand in T2 at SFO airport – QSR menu screens with mounts that pull the screen out from the wall recesses when they need to be serviced … except they just left them out. Doesn’t look good, with cables hanging down, tilted screens and so on. And …
Projects: Century-old Garden Center Group Takes (Some Of) Its Messaging Digital April 5, 2018 by Dave Haynes This is a straightforward menuboard and messaging boards set-up at Notcutts Garden Centres Ltd – which has 18 individual garden centres across England and has been doing this sort of thing for more than a century. The family-owned company cut over from pure print and some tablet-sized displays manually updated by thumb drive. The company did …
Grocery Digital OOH Network Has 1,000-Plus Screens Up At Checkouts, With Plans For As Many As 25,000 March 26, 2018 by Dave Haynes Denver-based Ping HD has done a potentially lucrative deal to be the CMS under the hood for an ambitious digital OOH network going into U.S. supermarkets – primarily at the checkout lanes. Adcorp Media Group is putting 10 to 12 32-inch Samsung System on Chip (SoC) displays in stores, with roughly 100 already up and …
