NYC Morning Blitz – What To See? October 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Lock Down Your iPad Kiosk, Or This Sort Of Thing Happens August 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes If your business is putting consumer tablets out in public areas, it’s really important you take the necessary steps to ensure the device is locked to only offer up the experience that you intended. If you don’t, you get bemused people who know their way around software and devices, who see if they are indeed …
Projects: Malaysian Mega-Mall Updates Its 60+ Screen Network August 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes The giant Utama 1 Shopping Centre in suburban Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is either the 4th or 6th or 7th largest mall on the planet, with 5 million square feet of space and a lot of people coming in the doors each day. The mall operator has been running a mall-wide digital signage network for the last …
Projects: Saudi British Bank Adds 60+ Screens In Riyadh Banking Center August 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Saudi British Bank in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has added a series of displays around its premiere banking center on Tahlia, the city’s high street. There are four video walls around the three-level branch, including a 4 by 3 curved wall. There are also tablets ands regular displays around the branch, intended to create a …
