Projects: Printer Duggal Drives Digital-Centric Audible Holiday Party January 28, 2016 by Dave Haynes Most print companies, big and small, have struggled to transition from traditional to digital, but New York-based Duggal is a good example of one that is doing a lot more than just converting lightboxes to LCD digital posters. Consider the project Duggal just did with Audible, the audio book company owned by Amazon. The holiday party …
Planar Debuts Slick Tablet App To Visualize Video Walls During On-Site Planning January 27, 2016 by Dave Haynes Portland-based Planar Systems has released a cool little mobile device application that makes it easy for systems integrators, architects and project teams to work out and visualize how a video wall might look in a specific environment and space. The PlanarView Visualization App allows users to take a photo of an area in, let’s say a building lobby, …
DSE Announces Apex Digital Signage Project Awards Finalists January 27, 2016 by Dave Haynes Digital Signage Expo has released its finalists for DSE 2016 APEX Awards, which highlight great project work from the previous year. It looks like a good bunch, and the numbers of entries was reasonably high (I don’t know why more companies don’t “get” the marketing value of awards). Only nine entries for food and bev …
Cineplex Wins Big DQ RFP For US, Canada Digital Menu Boards January 27, 2016 by Dave Haynes Cineplex Digital Media, previously known as EK3, has bagged the deal with American Dairy Queen Corporation to be the fast food giant’s “endorsed provider” of in-store digital merchandising solution, aka menu boards, in the US and Canada. The company says it won the deal “after an extensive audit and request for proposal process with over 30 …
New Directory Site For Digital Signage’s Gateway Drug January 27, 2016 by Dave Haynes A new online directory, Meeting Room Signs, has gone live, offering an easy, comprehensive tool for connecting buyers and sellers in the fast-emerging digital meeting room sign and digital door sign business. Meeting room signs are what I call the gateway drug for digital signage. I’ve talked to lots of vendors who say this simple, easily …
18 Surprising Statistics About Digital Signage January 27, 2016 by Sean Levy GUEST POST: Irfan Khan, SkyKit As a savvy businessperson, you know that digital signage is a huge, well-established market. You see them everywhere: promoting a new product in the store, advertising deals outside pharmacies—perhaps even touting diaper rash cream, as one sign in my hometown has done for at least the last five years. You’ve …
Research Firm Peoplecount Launches Audience Analytics Platform Built Around Smartphones Looking For WiFi January 27, 2016 by Dave Haynes Toronto research firm Peoplecount, which has focused for many years on out of home and place-based media, has developed its own WiFi-driven location analytics platform, called Placescount. The system passively detects WiFi-enabled smartphones, delivering real-time metrics on dwell time, return trips and footpath analytics. The turnkey service is geared to out-of-home and place-based media operators, as …
NRF Review – Digital Technology: The New Way Of Retail January 26, 2016 by Josh Gross GUEST POST: TARA PARACHUK, ARMODILO If you are a retailer looking to engage your customers with digital technology, NRF was the place to be! Retail’s Big Show 2016 showcased a variety of ways retailers can learn more about their customers from their current emotional state to every possible type of analytics you can imagine. Here’s an …
California Digital Signage CMS Start-Up Launches $250,000 Crowdfunding Campaign January 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes A Pleasant Hill, CA startup called Squizz has started a $250,000 crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo to bankroll inventory and new features, and stimulate some sales and PR buzz in the process. The campaign has a variety of levels, from $10 to $10,000 for something akin to a franchise or reseller set-up. The money would be used …
Monster Settles Social Media Visualization Patent Dispute With TigerLogic January 26, 2016 by Dave Haynes Orlando-based Monster Media has reached a settlement in the patent infringement action it filed in New York courts last summer against Portland,OR-based TigerLogic Corp, over the use of methods that put real time social media posts on digital signs. The terms of the settlement are, as you might expect, confidential. “The value of our Intellectual Portfolio enables continued innovation …
