Santiago’s Subway Rolls With Smart Stations, Data-Driven Screens January 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is an information-rich digital sign on Chile’s Santiago Metro. It runs ad messaging and educational messages, but what I like is the amount of detail in the train status messaging. The city’s transit system is using DENEVA, the transit-focused digital signage system developed by Spain’s ICON Multimedia. The project, says the company, includes 18 “smart stations.” DENEVA platform enables …
Tire Merchandising Goes Digital At Canadian Nissan Dealers January 24, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a simple but effective, I think, mash-up of merchandising and digital signage used to promote tire options at Nissan and Infiniti dealers in Canada. Groupe Touchette, the largest Canadian-owned distributor of automobile tires, worked with Montreal solutions shop iGotcha Media on digital signage display stands for nine dealerships, across several provinces. Says a …
Interactive Cube Promotes Cooking Show To JFK Airport Travelers January 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes This a pop-up marketing campaign at Terminal 4 of New York’s JFK Airport – an interactive food dispenser used to promote the Netflix show Final Table. Says mediaco JCDecaux: Netflix collaborated with JCDecaux North America to promote its ‘The Final Table’ culinary competition series by creating a mini-meals food dispenser cube in Terminal 4 at …
Venetian Resort Cocktail Bar Opens With 40-Foot Ambient Video Wall January 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes Add this to your must-see rotation at Digital Signage Expo, or whatever next brings you to Las Vegas – a 40-foot wide high-rez display in a new Venetian resort bar. The new cocktail bar – Electra – is on an edge of the casino floor, and runs custom content developed by Chicago agency Digital Kitchen. …
Mvix Puts 150 Business Data Sources And Widgets In New Portal January 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes DC-area CMS software firm Mvix has announced a data integrations portal with more than 150 business data sources and integrations – enabling end-users to automate the presentation of content from sources as diverse as HubSpot and court dockets. The portal, says Mvix in a press release, includes data sources like Salesforce, Google Analytics, HubSpot, MySQL, Quickbooks, …
inLighten Debuts Web-based Customer Check-in Solution January 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes No end of PR on solutions looking for problems find their way daily to my Inbox, so I’m always happy when I read about a new product or functionality that addresses and appears to resolve a common problem. Buffalo, NY-area software firm inLighten has launched a nice little application called here – described as a …
Broadsign Puts Ad Supply On Adomni’s Demand-Side Media Buying Platform January 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes Las Vegas-based demand side digital OOH media platform Adomni has struck a partnership with Montreal-based and DOOH-focused software shop Broadsign to make the latter’s end-users 33,000-plus screens available to buy online. The Broadsign Reach supply-side platform (SSP) is now seamlessly integrated into Adomni’s demand-side platform (DSP), says a press release. “It was a natural choice for us to partner …
16:9 Podcast – From ESLs to Avatars At NRF 2019 January 23, 2019 by Dave Haynes This is a special edition of the podcast, which I am pretty much whacking together myself, in the wake of running around the NRF show last week in New York. I had my handy little Tascam recorder with me, so I grabbed some quick interviews with several companies I bumped into, with the idea of …
50-Foot Fine-Pitch LED Strip Added To Downtown Calgary’s Pedway System January 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes Calgary, Alberta’s forest of energy sector-centric office towers is interconnected above the streets by a series of enclosed and climate-controlled (usually) pedway bridges, with the mezzanine levels of many of the buildings filled with retail and services. It’s an environment that teems with business professionals – geologists, engineers and lawyers – so it is an …
New Orleans Car Dealer Uses Digital Billboards To Troll NFL After Missed Call January 22, 2019 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Datacall’s Tim Vance for flagging this … A New Orleans man who owns multiple car dealerships around that city has booked LED billboards around the Atlanta area to troll the National Football League ahead of the Super Bowl there, in the wake of an awful missed call that very, very likely kept …
