How To Use Meeting Room Analytics For The Future Of Your Business July 21, 2017 by AdMobilize Guest Post: Neil Rieger, Signet Your workforce’s meetings are at the heart of your organization. They are where employees get together to collaborate and ultimately drive your company forward, possibly making them one of the most important aspects of your office environment. What goes on in your meeting rooms can tell you a lot about …
Projects: 3-Storey Floating LED Wall Greets USC J-School Students July 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is the student atrium in the newly-built Annenberg Hall at the University of Southern California in LA, which has a showpiece 3-storey-tall display intended to draw the attention of students, possibly even getting them to look up from their smartphones. The hall is part of the ?Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The five-storey student …
Projects: Selfridge’s Takes Its Staff Communications Digital July 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes This is a look inside how digital signage is being used for internal communications by iconic UK retailer Selfridges. AV integrator AVMI has put a high-impact LED wall at the London offices’ “Team Tunnel” and a network of over 30 Samsung Smart Signage screens at Selfridges office and retail locations in Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester and London. …
Aug. 8th Webinar Looks At Protecting Digital Signage Against Hackers July 20, 2017 by Dave Haynes An awful lot of the webinars that get organized by vendors or trade associations tend to re-visit familiar territory, but a session coming up in early August is, I think, the first to get into the touchy subject of preventing digital signage displays from being hacked. LED display manufacturer NanoLumens is running an August 8th …
STRATACACHE Launches Turnkey Service Available To Clients Not On Its Digital Signage Platforms July 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE has launched a turnkey field support service that, intriguingly, will work on jobs regardless of whether the network is running on a STRATACACHE product. The Smart Service Team, says a press release, is multi-functional. Services include ensuring network performance with routine compliance checks, supporting digital deployments from initial site surveys to post-install audits, configuring …
Michael Higgins, Harris School Solutions July 19, 2017 by Dave Haynes Public schools would seem like a natural fit for digital signage because of all the communications that circulate, all the time, in K-12 schools. A software company that’s focused on the education market – Harris School Solutions – recently announced a product that’s an interesting blend of digital signage and smartphone apps. It’s designed to …
Kiwi C-Store Chain’s Digital Signage Screens Drive Triple-Digit Sales July 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes Sales lift stories tend to be hard to come by from retailers and brands using digital signage, often because they’re not overly motivated to tell competitors what’s working. But here’s a short case study out of New Zealand about screens in the forecourts and inside New Zealand BP gas stations and c-stores. BP New Zealand …
LG Starts Loyalty Program Aimed At Architects, Designers July 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes The Business Solutions of LG’s US operations has started a loyalty program aimed at architects and design consultants, built around providing access to resources, support and training related to commercial display products. The LG PRO Design program is aimed at people who are often involved in the integration decision-making process for large public and commercial projects, from …
Startup Kitcast Launches Apple TV-focused Digital Signage Platform July 18, 2017 by Dave Haynes Silicon Valley-based Kitcast! is the latest company to develop a digital signage application that runs off AppleTV set top boxes. The company, started three years ago, says its platform comes with smart, custom templates to reduce content creation costs, and the system is touted as simple enough for non-technical users to launch and manage. “The …
VIA Launches 4K H.265-Ready Commercial Android Digital Signage Player July 17, 2017 by Dave Haynes Taiwan-based VIA Technologies recently launched a 4K-ready version of its commercial-grade Android digital signage player – a unit that supports HTML5 and H.265 video compression. The nerdy H.265 thing is important, as 4K video files can be huge, but the relatively new compression standard nicely shrinks the sizes down so they can move around networks …
