Movie Campaign Turns Mall Digital Kiosks Into Pikachus April 25, 2019 by Dave Haynes Digital OOH street furniture has long been a preferred medium for movie launches, but this is the first time I think I’ve seen them fully adapted to take on the character of a new film. This a mall kiosk in the UK, running on a JCDecaux screen, for a new movie called Detective Pikachu about …
Man Caught On Camera, In Act, Of Damaging LinkNYC Kiosks; Now Arrested April 25, 2019 by Dave Haynes A 41-year-old man has been arrested and charged in the wake of 42 LinkNYC digital OOH/smart city kiosks being vandalized and damaged around five NYPD precincts. The kiosks have cameras and at least one caught the man throwing a large rock at a unit, in daylight and as people walked by.
UK Digital Signage Matchmaking Event Set For Sept. 23-24 Outside London April 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes A UK events company is busily recruiting vendors and end-users for a digital signage matchmaking event in greater London this fall. The Digital Signage & Interactive Solutions Summit is one of those specialized events that sees vendors paying for access – both focused and relaxed – with interested, engaged buyers. So the organizers put it …
Broadsign Acquires DOOH Software Rival, And Neighbour, Ayuda April 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes There are times when mergers I hear about just send me into cross-eyed head-scratching mode, and others when my immediate reaction is: “Ok, that makes sense.” Broadsign acquiring Ayuda makes sense. Both companies are well established and much respected in the digital OOH sector. They serve the same kinds of clients but in different ways …
Some 30 Of New York’s Smart City Ad Posters Vandalized April 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes The NYC-focused online publication Gothamist has a post up, with multiple photos, of the beating laid on some 30 LinkNYC smart city ad posters in Manhattan this past weekend. A very cranky New Yorker smashed a series of the big digital display kiosks in the West Village and Chelsea, along 6th and 8th Avenues and …
Denver’s 900 LED Light Pole Welcome Sign Switched Off For Fix, Less Than Two Years After Lighting Up April 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes An ambitious project that was intended to generate new revenues for Denver’s airport, and showcase the innovative LED technology of Panasonic, has run into big problems less than two years after it was first switched on. The $14.5 million art and ad media piece features 900 LED light poles in a 1,000 foot curving line …
Blended Reality Nail Polish Kiosks Drive 24% Sales Bumps April 17, 2019 by Dave Haynes The global beauty company COTY is using free-standing blended reality kiosks to help demo and sell a line of nail polish products, and has seen 24% sales bumps at locations where they are plugged in. There are more than 400 units – marketing nail polish from the COTY brand OPI – in third-party stores around …
Brian McClimans On How Peerless-AV Is A Lot More Than Just Digital Signage Mounts April 17, 2019 by Dave Haynes The companies who do the infrastructure that gets screens in place and make video walls look amazing are a huge part of the digital signage ecosystem, but don’t get all that much attention. One of the biggest – if not THE biggest – is Chicago-based Peerless-AV, which has been a major part of digital signage …
Samsung Kits Out Shipping Container For Parking Lot Pro AV Tour April 16, 2019 by Dave Haynes Pro AV road shows have been a staple of distributors like Almo for many years, and the display companies have also done variations here and there, most notably the big showcases NEC and LG do each year in New York. But I don’t think I’ve seen one like what Samsung is starting this week. Today, …
Congratulations On 85 Years In Digital Signage! April 15, 2019 by Dave Haynes By just about any rational measure, the digital signage industry is about 30 years old – dating back to the start of companies like Scala, Capital Networks and Tightrope. I am probably missing a company or two, sorry, but you get the idea. So it was interesting to get an email from a reader that …
