The Top 10 Sixteen:Nine Posts For 2024 December 31, 2024 by Super User Here’s a look at the top posts from 2024 – in terms of views from readers – on Sixteen:Nine. If there is any clarity from this top 10 list, it is that reader interests are all over the place 😉 Clever Campaign Turns Blackened Ballpark LED Display Into Marketing Gold Changi Re-Opens Terminal 2 With …
Nordic Hotel Operator Evaluating Transparent LCD-Driven AI Avatars To Handle Check-ins And Guest Questions December 30, 2024 by Super User A hotel operator in Scandinavia is evaluating one of those life-sized transparent LCD display systems and an AI-driven avatar to check in guests when no front desk staff is around to process registration and hand over room access cards. The AI greeter was first launched last month at the Aiden by Best Western Lolland hotel …
US Cable And Media Giant Comcast Expands Digital Signage Capabilities By Adding New Tech Partnerships December 30, 2024 by Super User The US media and telecoms giant Comcast has added a pair of what it calls “new collaborations” with tech firms that are intended to expand its capabilities as a digital signage solutions for targeted enterprise customers in vertical markets like healthcare, hospitality, QSR and sports and entertainment venues. Comcast Smart Solutions, which specializes in smart …
UK Touch Tech Manufacturer Needs To Sell Or Wind Down As Sales Have Stalled December 20, 2024 by Super User Unfortunate news out of the UK, with the northern England touch technology manufacturer Zytronic making it known that is looking at selling the company or even shutting down because of sluggish sales. The listed company has issued a trading update outlining how sales in the last year fell from £8.6m to £7.2m, and that there …
Experiential In Airports Is Not Just About Big Dollar Creative: Exhibit B December 19, 2024 by Super User Here’s the second post about very different approaches to experiential digital signage at a big airport that don’t have six-figure creative attached to the jobs – in this case, a big preview screen that lets people know their friends and family are about to squirt out of arrivals and join them. Todd Alan Green, who …
Experiential In Airports Is Not Just About Big Dollar Creative: Exhibit A December 19, 2024 by Super User Here’s the first of two very different stories about experiential digital signage at a big airport – neither of them having anything to do with big-dollar creative or complicated technologies. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is, as anyone who has used it will confirm, crazy-busy – with some 286,000 passengers and roughly 2,100 arrivals and departures …
Franklin Instore, Elo Team Up On Managed Services Offer For Digital Merchandising December 18, 2024 by Super User The retail merchandising agency Franklin Instore has teamed up with interactive display firm Elo on a new “Digital Merchandising EcoSYSTEM” that pairs more conventional point of purchase marketing efforts with interactive displays – running with the idea of a “make once-use many” set-up that allows for repeated rebranding, re-messaging and re-merchandising a set-up based on …
Midwest Grocer Hy-Vee Opts In On Grocery TV Platform For In-Store Media Network; While Appearing To Opt Out On Samsung’s VXT December 18, 2024 by Super User This is intriguing – the Midwest US grocer chain Hy-Vee has announced a partnership with the in-store media network Grocery TV to deploy what it says could be 10,000+ screens across more than 400 stores. That big roll-out comes a bit more than a year after Samsung made a bunch of marketing noise about Hy-Vee using …
McDonald’s Opens Corporate Store In LA That Has No Lobby Or, By The Looks Of It, Drive-Thru Displays December 17, 2024 by Super User QSR giant McDonald’s is testing a store format in LA that has no dine-in area but also appears, at least, to not rely on outdoor drive-thru displays for taking orders. The trade publication QSR picked up on a social media post from a McDonald’s franchisee that points out a new-build prototype format that uses a …
STRATACACHE’S Chris Riegel Details Opportunities And Deadly Sins Of In-Store Retail Media December 16, 2024 by Super User If your company is chasing the retail media networks dream in some fashion – as a vendor, operator or even a brand – this podcast is well worth a listen. It is a nearly one-hour long interview with Chris Riegel of STRATACACHE, talking about the state of retail media networks, its scale and possibilities, and …
