YCD Latest Digital Signage Company To Add In-House Shopper Analytics November 2, 2018 by Super User Retail analytics seems to now be a thing in digital signage, many years after companies like Cognovision (Intel bought) and VideoMining popped up and tried to make the case for software partners doing integration for their screens. Many things have, of course, changed in the ensuing years – notably cloud computing, cheaper and faster hardware, …
GameStop Rolls Out Entire Retail Signage Network On Chromeboxes November 1, 2018 by Super User GameStop has long had digital signage in its video and PC gamer-focused stores, but now the full network of screens across 3,800-plus locations is running on ChromeOS and commercial Chromebox players. GameStop TV features product promotions, game previews, developer interviews and other customized content, as well as advertising. All content is targeted to video game …
Cinemex Using Creative Video Walls To Elevate Moviehouse Experiences November 1, 2018 by Super User Here’s a of glimpses at the ambitious and interesting digital signage implementations happening with the Cinemex moviehouse chain in Mexico. Across the 300 site chain, Mexican integrator Multimedia Corp. has put in 8,000 screens driven by some 1,300 players. The company is a longtime Scala reseller/solutions provider. At times, the content is also sync’d, even …
IAC Refreshes Giant NYC HQ Lobby Video Wall, Using 1.4mm LED October 31, 2018 by Super User This is the second iteration of a massive video wall in the lobby of the NYC-based internet media company IAC. The first version went up in 2012, using Prysm laser phosphor display cubes. Six years on, V2 uses 1.4mm pixel pitch LED modules. The 117×10-foot wall was designed, engineered and integrated by Video Corporation of America …
DSF’s Coffee And Controversy Draws Record Crowd October 31, 2018 by Super User Just back at World HQ after a lightning quick trip in and out of New York – mostly to attend and moderate the Digital Signage Federation’s annual Coffee and Controversy breakfast event. It was at Google’s NYC offices – which are predictably nice. The tech giant has a terrific events auditorium/presentation center/whatever they call it, …
Rich Ventura Goes Deep On ALP – NEC’s New Retail Analytics Platform October 31, 2018 by Super User NEC Display has been fairly quietly involved in analytics for a long time now, but it just got very serious and noisy about that capability, with the launch of something called ALP – which is short for Analytics Learning Platform. It’s a retail intelligence program that uses cameras and other sensors, AI, big data, cloud …
DC Arena Uses Tiled Screens To Change Concession Branding On Demand October 29, 2018 by Super User These are concessions at the renovated Capital One Arena in Washington, DC, home to NHL hockey and NBA basketball. What’s interesting to me is how the digital signage is not just the menu boards, but also the headers for the concessions – which allows the venue operator to rebrand a stand pretty much on the …
Smart Displays On The Rise: Updated Report On SoC In Digital Signage October 29, 2018 by Super User About 18 months ago, Sixteen:Nine first looked at the state of smart displays and raised the question of whether digital signage displays with embedded System on Chip (SoC) players inside represented the future path for the industry. In early 2017, almost every sign pointed to widespread adoption. Today, it is clear that adoption is happening. …
SkinnyIT Reportedly Closes Doors, Just Months After IST Acquisition October 26, 2018 by Super User It appears that SkinnyIT, the Dallas-area field service management company that bought Installation & Service Technologies earlier this year, has folded. IST, as it was known, had been a significant player in the digital signage field service space in recent years, and a big presence at DSE. From anything I knew, IST was very much a …
Fail: Digital Menu Gets Print Fix October 25, 2018 by Super User You kinda have to be a signage nerd to immediately see the badness of this, but when you do … A reader from Ohio sent this in from his local juice shop: “Not only are they just layouts thrown on USBs, that don’t fill the whole screen, one of the screens has been non-functioning for over …
