Projects: Under Armour Brand House in NYC July 22, 2014 by Super User The sports apparel and gear brand Under Armour opened the doors the SoHo (NYC) Brand House in April, the company’s largest retail store to date and one that puts a big visual focus on digital. The Brand House has nearly 10,000 square feet of interactive retail space that use technology to “tell the brand story through …
5.6B Reasons Why Retail Bankers Need A Mobile-Digital Sign Strategy June 12, 2014 by Till carlos Guest Post: Nancy Radermecher, John Ryan Banking is now literally in the hands of global consumers, around the globe, in the form of smartphones. By the end of 2013, mobile networks vendor Ericsson estimated there were 1.9 billion active smartphone subscriptions globally. In five years, Ericsson forecasts that number will triple to 5.6 billion subscriptions. As …
Low-Cost Retail Wow June 11, 2014 by Super User I don’t necessarily have a good use-case for these laser-projected keyboard thingies, and I know they’ve been around in one way or another for a couple of years, but I saw this at a Computex booth and thought, “Hmmm… Kinda neat.” The biggest reason I thought it was neat – $55 USD low volume reseller …
Projects: Tim Hortons TV’s Tidy Programming Design May 17, 2014 by Super User The Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons has been rolling out its dining area network for a few months now, but I hadn’t seen one in the wild until this afternoon, at one of my local Timmies locations. I’m not convinced the things accomplish all that much, especially one located in a smaller footprint site where …
Oxford, Cineplex Team On Ambitious, Reimagined Digital Mall Media Program May 13, 2014 by Super User Canada’s Cineplex Digital Media and Oxford Properties Group have announced a deal to create what they’re calling North America’s first place-based digital ecosystem in shopping malls. The program integrates architectural digital media, mobile technology, social media, experiential technologies, and digital media sales and analytics, “providing a first-of-its-kind opportunity to inspire shoppers and influence purchasing decisions. From …
This Network Brought To You By Cheetos May 7, 2014 by Super User A Phoenix mobile tech and marketing company has done a letter of intent to buy an existing digital signage network, with the goal of cornering the ad market in places that legally sell marijuana. SinglePoint, Inc. plans to buy Drive Media Network , for cash and stock, with the initial plan to install Drive Media screens in medical and …
Projects: Digital Ceiling In Oakley’s New NYC Flagship May 5, 2014 by Super User Oakley Store, NYC – Demo from Moment Factory on Vimeo. The sports performance company Oakley opened a new flagship store on 5th Avenue in NYC last week, and made heavy, but very different use of digital signage displays. The company hired Montreal’s Moment Factory to create “living, breathing installation, embodying the renegade spirit of Oakley’s …
Shoppers Would Rather Use Displays, Interactive Stations Than Talk To Store Staff: Report April 29, 2014 by Super User Digital devices will be influencing half of all in-store sales by the end of this year, suggest a new report by mega consulting firm Deloitte. Deloitte’s research, based on interviews with more than 2,000 US residents, suggests digital technologies already influence 36 percent or $1.1 trillion of in-store retail sales, and that rate is escalating at a …
Buying Digital Signage Online Is About As Rock-Solid As Jello April 28, 2014 by Super User Somehow or other I bumped into a link for a SIIG digital signage player, as listed on Staples’ Canadian online store. First, I thought, who is SIIG? Then I thought, Staples sells digital signage??? SIIG is a Fremont, California device manufacturer that’s into all kinds of things, and has a streamer device it touts as …
Visionect Introduces E-Paper Digital Signage Solution March 31, 2014 by Super User Luka Birsa, the Chief Technology Officer for the Slovenian firm Visionect, sent me a note telling me about how his company has shifted its work with e-paper to the digital signage market. “I read your article on meeting room systems and it inspired us to develop a demo system for room booking, which can be mounted on …
