Projects: Four-Storey Tall Herringbone Video Wall In Miami-Area Hotel November 21, 2014 by Super User Here’s 20 Planar Mosaic displays herringboned into a gorgeous, tall video totem at a lux hotel in the Surfside area, near Miami Beach. It’s billed in a press release as the “world’s tallest Planar® Mosaic™ Architectural Video Wall” – a title which (completely respectfully) no one outside of Beaverton, Oregon will view with more than …
How Adspace Shazams, With Help From Mood November 18, 2014 by Super User I was intrigued by the Adspace announcement Monday regarding its partnering with sound recognition app company Shazam to create a new type of engaged digital OOH advertising in US shopping malls. I think of people firing up Shazam when they want to do a little Name That Tune or Name That Band. But not so …
ComQi Latest Digital Signage CMS To Go Samsung Smart November 18, 2014 by Super User ComQi is the latest digital signage content management platform provider to hook up with Samsung and its Smart Signage embedded display panels program. The company’s retail-centric EnGage software now runs on the broad range of Samsung panels that have ARM processors and memory, which removes the need for separate media players. ComQi says its integration …
NYC OKs Massive Digital Street Directory Project November 17, 2014 by Super User New York City has announced the winners of a pitch to replace its 1,000s of old payphone booths with LinkNYC, sleek new interactive touchscreen stations that will offer free WiFi, free VOIP calling in the US, charging stations and variety of directory services. The devices will also connect people to 911 services and push out …
Photon Plans To Aim Its Marketing App Torpedoes At In-Store Digital November 17, 2014 by Super User If you read a post in TechCrunch this weekend, you’d see a fairly breathless piece about Photon Interactive, an Indian software company that has teamed up with Panasonic to amp up retail digital signage. The goal is to combine Photon’s software with Panasonic displays, reads the post, so that those displays will know more about the …
Adspace Enters Tech Partnership For In-Mall Push Marketing Using Shazam November 17, 2014 by Super User The dominant shopping mall digital OOH player in the U.S., Adspace Networks, has announced a technology partnership with Shazam, the company most known for its app that identifies music for people wanting to identify the song or the artist. The tech partnership is for related technology, in which the players driving Adspace screens will issue …
Interactive Video Has Possibilities On Retail Floor November 14, 2014 by Super User In the ever-blurring lines of digital marketing and in-store digital marketing, I could see how the sort of click code shown here as an interactive video would work very nice on the right shop floor. This is actress Anna Kendrick goofing around in an extended length promo video for designer Kate Spade. The slick thing here …
Goget Updates Slick Meeting Room Display System November 13, 2014 by Super User Analytics tells me a lot of site traffic comes in week to week based off a running post I do about meeting room signage options, and one of the companies I list just issued a great looking update. Sweden’s Goget has released Room Display 4, an Android-driven software and hardware platform that looks to do …
Samsung Makes Its Move: Beacons for Android, No App Required November 12, 2014 by Charles Regula Guest Post: Doug Thompson, Dot3 Samsung will launch the Samsung Placedge Platform at their developer’s conference tomorrow, and with it will cut out the need for an app to detect beacons. Instead, Samsung will provide a sort of uber-application that sits at the device layer, detecting beacons and pushing messages via a shared service. They invite …
Planar Reports Strong Digital Signage Sales Growth November 11, 2014 by Super User Portland-based specialty display manufacturer Planar Systems, Inc. has reported its year-end financial, showing big year to year growth in sales on digital signage products. For fiscal Q4, total revenue increased 17% year on year to $53.6 million compared to the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013. Revenue was driven by a 42% increase in sales of Digital …
