WordPress Gets A Digital Signage Plug-in August 12, 2016 by Super User A small German company has launched a WordPress plug-in that enables the hugely popular blog and website content management system to be used as a digital signage CMS. Ondamedia GmbH says its plugin, called Digitalsignagepress, makes developing and managing small signage networks easy and capable of running off any HTML5-based device, like system on chip smart …
What The Digital Signage Industry Can Learn From Apple TV August 12, 2016 by Alan Brawn Guest Post: Mark Hemphill, ScreenScape Savvy communicators could be increasing revenues by building dynamic media channels into every one of their business locations via digital signage, but a lot of them are held back by the cost and complexity associated with that technology. It’s still too expensive and complicated for the average business owner to want to take on. Or …
Projects: 280 Foot Wide LED Wall Lights Up In World Trade Center’s New Mall August 11, 2016 by Super User The retail component of the new World Trade Center in New York finally, formally, opens next week, and the 16 acre site will include some 5,000 square feet of LED. The signature installation is a 280-foot wide 4mm pixel pitch LED wall running along a concourse, driven by 12 sync’d HD outputs from players that …
Density Debuts New Way To Count, Report And Display Crowds And Lines August 10, 2016 by Super User There’s a podcast episode up today about Density, a San Francisco start-up that has launched a new type of people-counting sensor I think has some interesting potential for the digital signage market. Density was launched by Apple alums and former founders of Y Combinator. Their product is touted as a simple sensor-as-a-service that uses infrared beams to …
Digital Signage Goes To The Kitchen August 10, 2016 by Super User One of the guys at Rise Vision is so steeped in the digital signage business he has a slick interactive display up and running in his kitchen. Mat Meiers, the company’s lead creative designer, designed a screen layout to display calendar events, grocery lists, to do lists and family photos in his Kansas City-area kitchen. …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Andrew Farah, Density August 10, 2016 by Super User This week, Sixteen:Nine speaks with Andrew Farah, the CEO and one of the founders of Density, a San Francisco-area start-up that’s going at crowd tracking in a different way. Density puts a small sensor at the doorway or doorways leading into a venue or a targeted area,uses infrared beams to measure anonymous movements as people come and …
Orlando Airport Investing Big On Passenger-Facing Digital Signage August 9, 2016 by Super User Orlando International Airport continues to invest heavily in digital displays to improve the look and experience. The Orlando Sentinel has a story up about a $146 million makeover underway, and targeted to be complete by late next year, that will include a band of tiled displays behind the ticket counters at the departures level. The …
Two Keys To Creating Unforgettable Customer Experiences, In Any Physical Environment August 5, 2016 by Michal Lisewski Guest Post: Jeff Dumo, Array Interactive For the last seven years, my company has focused on creating digital experiences within physical environments to connect people and brands. In each case, custom content was powered by digital signage display systems, video walls, gestural systems, reactive and interactive installations, and other digital touch points. Some have been …
Astral OOH’s Toronto Pearson Deal Means Canadian Airport Ad Dominance August 4, 2016 by Super User Montreal-based Astral Out-of-home has won the ad concession for Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, and with that now has ad rights in Canada’s three busiest airports and largest markets. Astral’s airport media business, owned by the communications conglomerate Bell Media, already has Montreal and Vancouver, as well as Ottawa and Halifax. Pearson is the biggie, though, …
And Now There Are Digital Signage Pokémon Templates August 3, 2016 by Super User The whole Pokémon Go thing escapes me, but I’m guessing there are countless baby boomers who aren’t quite seeing the thrill of running around catching imaginary cartoon characters on a phone. But we’re not the market, and it’s clearly taken off among a younger crowd. Mark McDermott from Screen.Cloud provided a useful post this morning …
