Pattison Extends SmartAd Platform To Canada’s Outdoor LED Boards July 22, 2014 by Super User Pattison Outdoor Advertising, the biggest national OOH and Digital OOH company up here in the cradle of curling and poutine, has extended a “smart ad” system used until now on inside inventory to the big LED boards along Canada’s three paved roads. With the Adobe Flash-driven smartAD advertising engine, Pattison’s advertisers “have the ability to quickly …
Crowd-funded Star-up Creates Hybrid Of Digital Signage And Networked Art July 21, 2014 by Super User A Japanese company has launched a Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign for networked screens designed to run artwork in offices, homes and other spaces. Called FRAMED, the project is billed as is the world’s first canvas for digital art. Except these guys announced their’s a few weeks ago. Anyway, what this new project does in interesting. Available in …
Projects: Walmart Using Collaborative Video Wall For Merchandise Planning July 18, 2014 by Super User Big video walls tend to be Wow Factor efforts aimed squarely at consumers and corporate visitors, but here’s one that’s set up behind the scenes as a collaborative tool for a display solutions company that has a whale client named Walmart. The CROSSMARK Center for Collaboration in Bentonville, Arkansas (home to Walmart) has a pair …
ViA Debuts Rugged Android Tablet For Digital Retailing July 15, 2014 by Super User There were dozens of companies in the various trade halls of Computex in Taiwan last month showing tablets of varied sizes, but I didn’t see many that looked tough enough to handle more than simple home usage. Ruggedized tablets have the same DNA as consumer grade ones, but they’re engineered to handle the rigors of …
Projects: Samsung Turns On Interactive Touch Walls To Peddle Appliances At Best Buys July 11, 2014 by Super User Samsung has just unveiled a new digital in-store shopping experience designed to help consumers decide on just the right home appliance. Called CenterStage, the 3 by 3 interactive video wall showcases Samsung’s portfolio of appliances in Best Buy stores with ultra-realistic, life-size displays. In a news release, Samsung says: consumers find appliance shopping confusing and uncomfortable. …
The Digital Signage Will Be In Here July 9, 2014 by Super User As a consultant who helps end-users figure out what they want to do, and what to use, I start my days with the same sorrow-filled declaration: “If only I had more software options …” OK, maybe not. I keep a database of digital signage CMS platforms and by my count, there are at least 150 …
DSrupted: With Beacons, There Is No Offline July 8, 2014 by Super User One of the great sessions planned for DSrupted in September is built around the most buzzed in-store technology these days – Bluetooth Low Energy beacons. There’s a huge amount of interest in tech that activates engagement with smartphone-clutching consumers, but not a hell of a lot of understanding about how the technology can best be …
Intel Gets US Patent For Cognovision’s Video Analytics IP July 3, 2014 by Super User This could be interesting. The US Patent Office has just granted Intel patent #8,766,914, which covers video analytics for digital signage. The patent summary is for a “Method and apparatus for measuring audience size for a digital sign” The abstract says: Measuring audience size for a digital sign comprises generating a plurality of paths, one …
E Ink Says Digital Signage Could Become 10%-30% Of Its Business July 1, 2014 by Super User E Ink has some serious aspirations in the digital signage business, with a goal of digital posters representing as much as 30% of the company’s overall revenue within a few years. That’s possible, the company says, because selling one 32-inch display equates to selling the substrates for about 25 e-readers. I spoke at length Monday …
How Google’s New Android Plans Further Blur Lines Between Digital Signage And TV June 27, 2014 by Super User Google had its big annual I/O conference this week, and one of the big announcements was around expanding Android to TV platforms. Google now sees TV as just another display and communications, like smartphones and tablets. Android TV will be part of Android L, the new operating system Google previewed at its conference. Consumers will start …
