Projects: Auckland’s Airport Switches On Digital OOH Network December 9, 2014 by Dave Haynes The down under media company APN Outdoor has turned on a new digital OOH network of screens in the Auckland, New Zealand airport – landscape, portrait, speciality video wall and 4K screens all aimed at the 15 million travelers who fly in and out of there annually. The 72 displays in the network are all running …
BroadSign Hails London Taxi Deal December 8, 2014 by Dave Haynes BroadSign has announced it waved frantically from the burb and got Metropolis Digital Media Ltd to pull over and pick up the company’s software for a media network running on London’s licensed black taxis. The deal involves 500 taxi-toppers to start, and will scale up from there. The set-up is a pair of 1920 x 440 LCD panels …
How Banks Can Differentiate Digital Signage Vendors December 8, 2014 by MarkJanke Guest Post: Tim Pritzker, JohnRyan Bank marketers have been sitting through what has to be the longest parade in history – the endless march into their meeting rooms of digital signage solutions providers. The parade’s been going on for more a decade, and shows no real sign of ending. For every company that drifts off …
Digital Signage Gangnam Style December 4, 2014 by Dave Haynes Spotomate partner Shakr Media’s offices are just off the shopping and entertainment district called Gang-nam – a Seoul district now made famous by that crazy music video by Korean pop star Psy. I wrapped up a little early yesterday and went for a walk up and down this wide, very busy thoroughfare, and also dipped …
Transparent Displays Finally Get Some Traction December 4, 2014 by Dave Haynes If you have been around the digital signage business for a few years, you’ve now seen for many years the nice little trick of using the interior lighting of grocery chillers and display cabinets to replace conventional back and edge lighting in LCD displays – effectively creating see through LCD screens. Great stuff, and many …
PiVision Debuts Bundled Raspberry Pi-Based Digital Signage Player December 1, 2014 by Dave Haynes RiseVision gets tons and tons of tinkerers using its free, open-source signage CMS to try to make various devices work and drive a display with content. Some efforts never get past the kitchen table “lab” while others get commercialized. A company called PiVision has taken the low cost Raspberry Pi micro-PC hardware, added an enclosure and …
Projects: Big Displays, Tiny Pixel Pitch At Mercedes R&D Center November 28, 2014 by Dave Haynes German automaker Mercedes Benz sells a lot of vehicles in China these days, and earlier this month, it opened an R&D center in Beijing – with the customer areas including a couple of giant LED walls that have a very tight 1.9 mm pixel pitch. That’s tight enough to look at from up close without the …
Projects: Holt Renfrew At Toronto Yorkdale November 28, 2014 by Dave Haynes Yorkdale is by most measures Canada’s premium shopping mall – the place where most luxury retailers establish their first flagship store in the country and where established retailers put in a lot of money to draw in crowds. Holt Renfrew equates kinda sorta to a Neiman Marcus store in the US – a decades-old luxury …
Infographics: Beacons Visually Explained November 28, 2014 by Dave Haynes Here’s a nice, simple graphic from a BLE beacons manufacturer, kontakt.io, explaining how the little things work. Though there’s no end of buzz about beacons technology, I get a sense many people don’t really understand what they do and don’t do.
CREX (CRIRNINBI) Files First Blended Financials (Not Good, But …) November 27, 2014 by Dave Haynes The blended entity that came out of conjoining Wireless Ronin, Broadcast International and Creative Realities has released its first set of financials, and the tradition continues. More red ink for what is now listed as CREX. Now, to be fair, the deal just closed in late August, and CEO Paul Price (who was already running …
