Digital Signage’s Big Boys Creating Some Separation From Pack Through Facilities September 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes There are some tangible indications out there that some separation is starting to show between digital signage software and services companies that intend to play in the big leagues, and medium to small companies with more modest aspirations. This summer there was news of Stratacache buying Scala, but also buying a massive distribution centre and …
The Near-Future Of Digital Billboards And Posters Is Programmatic September 21, 2016 by Emily Carroll Guest Post: Brett Farley, NanoLumens Out Of Home (OOH) advertising has exploded with the implementation of digital technology, with nearly 62% of all OOH advertising now done using digitally-enabled displays. In 2010, digital content delivery made up just 9% of total OOH revenue. Companies are now switching out older static networks with digital media because the content can be …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Ken Sahlin, DOmedia September 21, 2016 by Dave Haynes This week, it’s all about advertising. I’m talking to Ken Sahlin, the CEO of DOmedia, a Columbus, Ohio company that’s in the business of putting together media buyers and sellers using software. Ken talks about how the company has developed a set of cloud-based applications that make media planners aware of out of home media they …
3+ Options For Using WordPress As A Digital Signage Platform September 19, 2016 by Dave Haynes If you run a website or blog, there’s a pretty good chance you have some exposure to WordPress, the open source online publishing platform used by 60 million-plus of companies, organizations and individuals. This site runs on WordPress, for example. It’s a powerful tool with a vast developer community that feeds into it, developing templates …
Estimote Puts Digital Signage System On A BLE Beacon September 17, 2016 by Dave Haynes Bluetooth beacons have been turned into interactive digital signage players by one of the largest manufacturers of the high buzz factor radio transmitters. The Polish start-up Estimote has announced a new product called Estimote Mirror, a dongle that plugs into the back of any display that has an HDMI and USB port (if they are next …
Key Copy Kiosk Shows What Much Interactive Retail Should Really Be About September 16, 2016 by Dave Haynes Here’s a great example of an interactive screen solution, coupled with a machine, that goes to the heart of what any of this “customer engagement” stuff should be about – making something faster, better and easier for consumers. In this case, it’s a kiosk that can copy a house, car or other key in a …
Show Me The Way To Go Home, On The Jukebox September 15, 2016 by Dave Haynes If you were at a bar, and decided it was time to pull the eject lever and head home, would you whip out your smartphone to see the subway or Uber availability situation, or consult a jukebox screen? The hope, and I guess expectation, is that patrons in bars across 14 US markets will keep …
Whole Foods Goes Truly Digital With Signage At Seattle-area 365 Store September 15, 2016 by Dave Haynes Via GeekWire The tech news site GeekWire has a good piece up about the heavy digital investment made by Whole Foods at a new small format 365 store in Bellevue, Washington. The store has electronic ink price labels, digital weigh scales, interactive digital kiosks to facilitate wine pairings, a touchscreen-driven TeaBot and larger digital displays …
Lock Down Your Tablet Kiosk Screens With These 5 Easy Tips September 15, 2016 by Ryan Cahoy Guest Post: Jon Sproule, Armodilo Display Solutions This blog had a post up recently that showed how easy it can be for pranksters to interfere with your carefully considered tablet kiosk deployment. We think about and protect tablet-powered kiosks all day long, but on the hardware side. It’s not a surprise when security gets overlooked on the …
LinkNYC Shuts Off Web Tablets To Stop, Ummm, Problematic Browsing September 14, 2016 by Dave Haynes It should not surprise anyone who’s been on the operations side of digital signage networks that the flashy and very expensive interactive information stations that are replacing payphones around the sidewalks of New York are running into problems with the general public. If you’ve never done operations work, you assume the general public is uniformly well-behaved, and …
