10 Steps For Planning Successful Interactive Wayfinding August 16, 2018 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Jill Perardi, Visix When it comes to wayfinding options, interactive signage is the most flexible and powerful way to go. But each location is different and presents unique challenges. Before buying anything, think it all out and come up with a good plan to help make the process as smooth as possible: 1. …
Watchfire Wins $30M Deal For Refreshed Fremont Street LED Canopy August 15, 2018 by Super User Danville, IL-based LED sign company Watchfire Signs has won the monster deal for a new multimedia LED canopy over Fremont Street in Las Vegas. The upgraded sign will have 130,000 sq. ft. of LED – which in less technical terms means a lot. Watchfire, in a press release, says it was selected from among 15 digital screen …
$6B McDonald’s US Modernization Plan Includes Digital Menus, Drive-Thrus August 15, 2018 by Super User McDonald’s has announced $6 billion in restaurant modernization and construction plans through 2020, with a portion of that money going to “bright and easy to read digital menu boards inside and at the drive-through” and digital self-order kiosks. A lot of the money will be in bricks and mortar work like modernized dining areas, remodeled …
How iGotcha Drives Digital Signage For Everyone From Banks To Circuses August 15, 2018 by Super User I was in Montreal recently and had a chance to visit the offices of iGotcha, a digital signage and experiential media solutions company that has very quietly built up a nice book of business since launching in 2005. Working out of an old warehouse building overlooking the historic Lachine Canal, iGotcha works with everyone from …
Magna Puts Vast Immersive Meeting Space On Auto Plant Floor August 14, 2018 by Super User This is a seriously whizzy-bangy meeting room space that’s interesting mainly because it is located in the heart of the production floor of a contract auto manufacturer. I’ve been in an auto plant and with everything happening, everywhere, it’s a dirty, power-spiking, really challenging place to be dropping in a lot of high-tech visual systems. …
Big Video Walls Help Market Mercedes Lux Cars In Pop-up Mall Dealerships August 13, 2018 by Super User This is a shot from one of a pair of Mercedes Benz pop-up stores set up for two months this summer in high-end shopping malls in Miami and Chicago – using some 60 displays in each to create some visual interest and excitement in relatively small footprint spaces. The digital signage aspect of the stores …
Half Of RMG Networks Board Resigns In Wake Of Acquisition Vote August 13, 2018 by Super User Half of the board of Dallas-based RMG Networks resigned earlier this month in the wake of decisions surrounding proposals to acquire the software and solutions company. This comes in the wake of the company’s board chair doing a merger agreement to take the public company private, and then a “go-shop” period that allowed for and “elicited an alternative …
Why Remove Items From A Digital Menu With Software, When Electrical Tape Will Do? August 10, 2018 by Super User Spotted by a reader, at a McCafe in central NYC. Some things evidently aren’t available on the menu, so instead of someone going into the software to make changes, a staffer has covered up that information with electrical tape. Thought it was just the stuff on the top right of the display and then noticed …
Spotted: Smart City Digital Signage In Montreal That’s Genuinely Smart August 9, 2018 by Super User I had breakfast in Montreal with an industry friend yesterday, who filled me in on a project that genuinely addresses the notion of digital signage and smart cities. There are 100s of rectangular LED screens in the central business and tourist districts, some in stacks of two or three, telling motorists where parking lots are …
Mind Steadily Blown In Moment Factory Tour August 8, 2018 by Super User Almost 20 years in this industry and more trade shows than I can count has left me a little jaded, and tough to impress, but my tiny little mind was steadily blown during a 90 minute tour Tuesday around the Montreal head office and studio of Moment Factory. The company is, arguably, the top experiential …
