GM Mandates Digital Signage As Essential Brand Element In Dealers For 2018 March 25, 2017 by Dave Haynes General Motors is mandating digital signage as an essential brand element in Chevrolet, GMC and Buick stores in the United States, starting in 2018, according to a report this week in Automotive News. The automaker has certified Automotive Broadcasting Network of Jacksonville, Fla.; DCI-Artform, which has offices in Milwaukee and Detroit; and Southfield, Mich.-based Bluewater Technologies …
Projects Podcast Looks At MaxMedia’s Work On AT&T’s San Francisco Flagship March 10, 2017 by Dave Haynes The new 16:9 Projects Podcast takes a deep dive look into the flagship AT&T store at 1 Powell Street in beautiful San Francisco. Project host Michael Tutton has a great, detailed interview with Jeff Doud, the executive creative director at Atlanta-based retail experience firm MaxMedia. It has three “chapters” of content: Entertainment, Local Arts & Culture …
Video: Screenly, Evrything Mash Up NFC, Smartphones, Digital Signage For Retail March 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes Here’s an interesting little digital signage/NFC technical demo that UK-based CMS provider Screenly put together for its presence with Ubuntu and Evrything at the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. It shows how a store that already has display infrastructure in place, and already uses NFC on its clothing tags, could make a merchandising screen …
UK Grocer Trials LCD Slats As Shelf-Edge Product Explainers March 3, 2017 by Dave Haynes I was with a retailer earlier this week talking about emerging technology, and one of the things that we spent a lot of time talking about was electronic shelf labeling and teeny shelf-edge displays that use specially-cut full-color LCDs. So it was kind of weird to get back at HQ and bump into an online piece …
Projects: 40-Screen Flying Video Wall Switches On At Southampton, UK Cinema February 22, 2017 by Dave Haynes Here’s a very nice install – featuring a “flying” video wall – that formally switched on last week at the new 10-screen Showcase Cinema de Lux in Southampton, England. The high-end movie house has laser projection and Dolby Atmos sound, and fully customizable electric recliners for seating. Integrator Beaver Group did all the digital display work, …
Walmart OKs Trial Of Car-Buying Kiosks In Select U.S. Stores January 27, 2017 by Dave Haynes An online car-buying service has struck a leasing deal with Walmart to start putting interactive kiosks in 25 U.S. stores this spring. Miami-based CarSaver, reports Automotive News, will have kiosks and related information centers that allow consumers to poke around for vehicles on the screens and book appointments at nearby dealerships that are in on the program. When …
Projects: Interactive Displays Guide Vera Wang Style Choices January 25, 2017 by Dave Haynes This a pretty standard touchscreen application developed for weddings-centric fashion designer Vera Wang, but I like how this video shows the thinking behind the user experience and the use of a set of guiding questions on style to get users more quickly to what interests them. In a truly long distance collaboration, Wang’s team engaged …
Coates Hires McDonald’s POS & Kiosk Chief As New U.S. GM January 24, 2017 by Dave Haynes New hires at digital signage companies don’t seem to generate many page views on Sixteen:Nine, but this one might be different – a company focused on digital services for QSRs has hired the woman who was previously McDonald’s Director of Global Point of Sale and Self-Order Kiosk. Kim Moore is now the U.S. General Manager of …
Back To The Future In Retail Tech January 19, 2017 by Jeff Doud Guest Post: Stuart Armstrong, ComQi In an odd twist, a massive high-tech investment in omni-channel, big data and IoT is taking retailers back to the future – back to something they used to know and do well: creating relationships with their customers. Older generations grew up knowing their local grocer. Their butcher. Their druggist. It …
NRF2017 Impressions: Lotsa Actionable Analytics January 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes NRF is not a digital signage show. There are lots of signage vendors at the show – with booths or just walking around. It’s a retail tech show full of stuff that will be largely unfamiliar if you live and work in the digital signage bubble. But it’s a valuable show to walk if retail …
