Is Your Digital Signage Business Being Impacted By Global Semiconductor Shortages? May 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes I have been hearing, for weeks now, about a shortage of semiconductor microchips – the smarts inside everything from cars to countertop home appliances. And pro AV technologies. There is more demand than supply at the moment, and that may affect the availability of new product. Observers say the situation, globally, owes to several COVID-driven …
VSBLTY, Onyx Glass Partner On Idea Of Cooler As A Service For Digital Chiller Door Screens May 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes The screens as grocery and c-store chiller doors thing has been around perhaps as long as a decade, and while marketplace adoption seems pretty limited to date, there are still companies getting into the concept and adding their own ideas on a special sauce, like AI. The latest is a tie-up between the Philly computer …
New Research Suggests Touchscreens Leading Public Display Sector Recovery May 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes As digital signage and retail tech sellers continue to tout touchless solutions – using voice, gesture, hover and QR-to-smartphone set-ups – the main buyers out there appear to be opting for screens that get touched. New research from OMDIA says the Interactive Touch (IFP/Touch) segment actually leads the recovery being seen in the total Public …
Starbucks Takes Digital End-Cap Concept Into The Aisles At ASDA Supermarket In UK May 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes My Linkedin feed had a post up from the UK about a digital merchandising display for Starbucks in the aisles of an ASDA supermarket. The display is like a digital end-cap, except it was in-aisle and uses tactics like fins and angled displays to try to grab shopper attention. I note this for a few …
Captivate Gives SMBs Love Through Free Business Spotlights On Its 11,000 Screen Network May 6, 2021 by Dave Haynes Office tower media network Captivate, which has screens in elevator cabs and building lobbies in big cities across the U.S. and Canada, is running a nice advertorial promotion this month aimed at helping small businesses. Captivate’s Small Business Spotlight series allows small business owners to submit their story and ad to be featured on Captivate’s …
Splashy New Westfield Mall Of Netherlands Using Big Digital Displays Inside And Out May 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Westfield Mall of The Netherlands opened a few weeks ago – Holland’s biggest retail destination with over 280 stores in the vicinity of The Hague. The development cost more than half a billion Euros, but even in a period when retail has been clobbered, the mall is more than 90% leased. Like just about …
Community Builder Using Digital Signage Players Inside Model Homes May 5, 2021 by Dave Haynes I have heard of many cases in which builders and property developers have used digital signage in their presentation centers – dedicated buildings or areas within existing or new builds – that show the features and offers of dwellings and areas. Here’s a case where a builder is putting digital signage into each model home, …
Is This The World’s Biggest Digital Menu Display? May 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is certainly the biggest digital menu display I’ve ever seen – a set-up using LED in the common area of a cinema operation in the Cinépolis movie theater chain. Cinépolis is the largest cinema circuit in Latin America and the third worldwide, operating across Mexico, Brazil, part of the U.S. and roughly a dozen …
UK’s B-Tech Makes Strategic Hire To Broaden AV Mounts In North America May 4, 2021 by Dave Haynes A firm that has been selling pro AV mounting hardware from a base in the U.K. has seen the sale of Premier Mounts as an opportunity to amplify expansion efforts into the U.S. and Canada, even hiring a 25-year Premier vet to run U.S. sales. B-Tech AV Mounts has almost 50 years of experience in …
Dubai Mall Lines Concourses With Big DV LED Back-To-Backs May 3, 2021 by Dave Haynes A lot of the digital signage jobs I have seen lately in shopping malls has tended to be very large direct view LED displays that dominate a space, or LED ribbons that line floors levels in atrium areas a bit like the way LED ribbons line the seating bowls in arenas. So it was interesting …
