Projection-Mapped Advertising Goes Airborne Over NYC August 29, 2016 by Dave Haynes Last week, New Yorkers might have looked up one night and seen a huge illuminated billboard floating along the west skyline, over the Hudson River. Industry friend Will Amos of Diversified sent me a smartphone video that was, as he advertised, crappy, and had him guessing way off in the distance was a plane towing an …
Chromebit Update: Eight Months In, Still Ticking Along Happily August 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes I don’t have the technical background to say this is indicative of anything, but my test so far of the little Asus Chromebit as a simple signage player has been positive. The little $85 Google-approved HDMI stick I bought has been running on a spare screen at World Headquarters/spare bedroom for eight months, and it just …
Projects: Malaysian Mega-Mall Updates Its 60+ Screen Network August 25, 2016 by Dave Haynes The giant Utama 1 Shopping Centre in suburban Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is either the 4th or 6th or 7th largest mall on the planet, with 5 million square feet of space and a lot of people coming in the doors each day. The mall operator has been running a mall-wide digital signage network for the last …
Projects: Saudi British Bank Adds 60+ Screens In Riyadh Banking Center August 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Saudi British Bank in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia has added a series of displays around its premiere banking center on Tahlia, the city’s high street. There are four video walls around the three-level branch, including a 4 by 3 curved wall. There are also tablets ands regular displays around the branch, intended to create a …
Experiential Design and Data Visualization: The Business Shift To Big Data August 24, 2016 by Rebecca Downden Guest Post: Hoa Tong, Array Interactive If you’ve been keeping current with the latest business industry practices the last decade, you’ve probably seen that many significant company decisions today affecting time, money, and outcome are no longer made based solely on executive counsel, trends, or even past experiences. They’re now made based on pure data …
New Scala Board Is Unsurprisingly STRATACACHE-Heavy August 24, 2016 by Dave Haynes STRATACACHE CEO/Owner Chris Riegel cleared out the board last week when he acquired rival software CMS firm Scala, and the company has now announced a new board, which does includes a Scala veteran. Gerard Bucas was the CEO of Scala from 2002 to 2011, and was as part of that a longtime board member. Everyone else is, not …
The Path To The Post-Search Era August 23, 2016 by Vpetersson Guest Post: Kaijus Asteljoki, Valotalive “Why?” That was the question, a good friend asked me recently. “Why do you do what you do? What inspires you and your company to push forward?” I had an immediate answer to that question, because it was obvious to me. Now I want to share my answer with you. We …
Digital Signage Goes To Another Kitchen August 23, 2016 by Dave Haynes Here’s a different take on the idea of putting digital signage in private homes. Cassidy Smirnow is Senior VP of Operations at Denver’s Four Winds Interactive, and as a result, knows here way around the platform and the idea of building and publishing a layout to a display. For the last couple of years she has …
The Table Stakes of Digital Signage August 23, 2016 by Dave Haynes “Table stakes” is an appropriated term from the card table, used in the business world not for poker bet limits, but on what a company needs to have to really be competitive. I was asked the other day what the so-called table stakes now in digital signage – those “things” a company must have to be taken seriously as a software vendor or …
Sweden’s ZetaDisplay Buys Up Norwegian Competitor ProntoTV August 22, 2016 by Dave Haynes The Swedish digital signage firm ZetaDisplay announced today it has completed a deal to acquire ProntoTV AS, which is touted as the largest digital signage supplier in neighbouring Norway. The company paid NOK 75 million (about$9.10 million USD) on a “debt-free basis” plus an earnings-based supplemental purchase price in a maximum amount of NOK 25 million, which …
