US Grocer Save Mart’s Retail Media Network Starts Testing Impacts Of In-Aisle Screens May 1, 2024 by Super User The volume of announcements lately about retailers launching their own media networks is staggering, as is the diversity of operators. I just saw a reference yesterday to a retail media network for Chuck E. Cheese, which for people outside North America is a themed play center/restaurant for kids. I suppose anything can be a media …
Chicago 360 Goes Heavy With Digital Display In Update To 94th Floor Entry Experience May 1, 2024 by Super User The Chicago 360 attraction high up in one of Chicago’s tallest skyscrapers has opened a new immersive entry kicks off the visitor experience, using a lot of digital done in interesting and offbeat ways. The 5,000 sq. ft, gives visitors a way to explore the history of the city, its iconic architecture and distinctive neighborhoods, …
Why And How GOB LED Gives Video Wall Operators Peace Of Mind May 1, 2024 by Ross Noonan Guest Post: Ross Noonan, LED Studio Captivating visual displays are crucial for businesses to engage and leave a lasting impression on their audiences. To this day, the most common fault relating to LED displays is pixel damage, or worse, failure. However, the tide is turning. New innovations are making this less of a problem, if …
Samsung Now Clearly Selling Its VXT CMS And Related Services Against Rest Of Digital Signage Software Ecosystem April 30, 2024 by Super User As expected in many industry circles, electronics giant Samsung is now competing directly with CMS software companies through its new-ish VXT cloud-based platform, even throwing in discount pricing if subscriptions are bundled with monitor purchases and selling installation services. This is a product page from Samsung’s US site that shows a typical pro display, and …
Airport Trade Show Demo Has Fine Pitch LED Wrapping Jetway Entry As Departure Gate Portal April 29, 2024 by Super User Anyone who does a lot of commercial flying for business travel knows the quality of information on the screens at depature gates is all over the map – from rich and detailed to minimal and not all that useful, beyond confirming the gate number and destination. So it is interesting to see a departure gate …
Touring Experiential Digital Shrine To Footballing Deity Lionel Messi Opens In Miami April 29, 2024 by Super User Photos – Bruno Aïello-Destombes/Moment Factory An immersive attractions company that had previously been touring projection-mapped shows featuring painting masters like Van Gogh and Monet has now turned its attention to a very modern master, with very different skills – footballing’s biggest star, Lionel Messi. The Messi Experience opened last week in Miami – a nine-room, …
Signagelive Automates High Volume Video Content Production And Delivery Via Integration With Serb Start-up Plainly April 29, 2024 by Super User The UK CMS software firm Signagelive has a long history of looking around the corners at what’s now possible, or will be soon, when it comes to emerging technologies and software integrations. CEO Jason Cremins was talking, for example, about things like cloud, headless CMS and low/no code well before most other companies. Now the …
BrightSign Offers Sustainability-Focused Trade-In Incentive Program For EOL’d Players April 26, 2024 by Super User This may be common, for all I know, with tech hardware – but it’s new to me: an AV hardware manufacturer running a trade-in incentive plan. Silicon Valley-based BrightSign has launched a Trade-In Program that encourages end-users with end-of-life (EOL) or now underspec’d earlier versions of its little purple media players to return them and …
Clever Adidas Campaign Turns Stockholm DOOH Totems Into Competitive Running Checkpoints April 26, 2024 by Super User This is a clever campaign done to market Adidas in Stockholm, Sweden – a digital OOH campaign tied to an app that lets runners compete for times between ad totems that double up for this as race start and finish checkpoints. The Billboard Run asks avid runners to scan a QR code on a DOOH …
Video: E Ink Shows Its Full Range Of Color E-Paper Displays April 25, 2024 by Super User Presumably timing this to Touch Taiwan this week and a big exhibit stand at that show, E Ink has put out a promo video that walks through its current product portfolio. Lots of display companies do that, of course, but most display companies have products that already look really good – whereas E Ink has …
