Digital Signage-Driven Sook Pop-Up Stores Cease Operations January 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes Well this makes me sad … the UK start-up that was using digital signage technology as the core visual marketing feature of a set of short-term rental pop-up stores has ceased operations. The company, called Sook, had what I thought was the clever idea of establishing small, ready-to-use retail stores on UK high streets that …
Neat To See: Poppulo’s Management Team Has More Women Than Men December 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is neat to see … I did a quick check today of the Poppulo website, curious to see if it had cut over the leadership page to reflect CEO David Levin stepping back Friday after 18 years to a board position and Ruth Fornell taking over. The site has indeed been updated – and …
Office Tower Elevator’s Controls Tied To Digital Mirrors To Show Floor Location December 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes A UK company called iFaceMirror has been putting LCD-backed digital mirrors in the interiors of elevator (lift) cars for a bunch of years, with their purpose heavily focused on advertising and branding for the venue or the businesses in that office tower, hotel or shopping space. So I was intrigued by this video (below) that …
Denmark’s Realfiction Expanding Beyond Hologram-ish Displays With New Multi-View Tech December 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes The Danish display tech firm Realfiction is best known for its merchandising-sized holographic-ish displays that use a variation on the old Pepper’s Ghost reflected visual illusion technique, but next month during CES in Las Vegas it is planning to show and demo technology that shows different visuals to different viewers. The company is not at …
Ross Video Exits LED Display Business, Just Two Years After Acquiring D3LED December 15, 2023 by Dave Haynes In a move perhaps best described as curious (or maybe inevitable), Ross Video has announced it is getting out of the LED display business, two years after acquiring D3LED and getting squarely in that business. The Ottawa, Canada pro AV tech firm announced its plans Thursday to “exit the LED display business and is now …
Watch: 164 Smartphones Stacked Like Christmas Tree To Create Unique Video Wall December 14, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a fun retail project in Chile that somehow or other sync’s up 164 Samsung Galaxy smartphones to deliver messages on a digital Christmas tree. The set-up uses Novisign’s CMS software and its “Screen Sync” to get all the phones mapped and capable of behaving like a very big and complicated video wall, except …
Staying On Top Of Seasonal Promotions And Messaging Gets Easier, More Accurate, Using Digital Signage December 14, 2023 by Emily McCue Baldeschwiler Guest Post: Emily McCue Baldeschwiler, Spectrio There is a lot more to seasonality in retailing and food services than spring, summer, fall and winter, and digital signage technology offers a way for operators to not only stay on top of all the changes seasonality requires, but also profit from them. Consumers are familiar with products and …
Black Rifle Coffee Starts Rolling Out CRI’s Digital Signage Solution Across Its Chain December 13, 2023 by Dave Haynes Creative Realities, Inc. has announced a deal that will see its digital signage solutions built in to the customer experience for locations of Black Rifle Coffee, a US coffee chain that has close ties with active-duty military members, veterans, and first responders. The solution is in place in a new-design store, and the intention is …
Public Information Display Market Up Almost 14% Year On Year: Omdia December 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes New research released by Omdia suggests the public information display market has bounced back from a dip a year ago, with interactive displays being the biggest growth driver in sales and shipments. The research firm Omdia says in highlights from its fee-based Public Display Market Tracker 3Q23 that the public display market saw a 13.8% …
Visionect Release CMS Tuned And Optimized For E-Paper Displays December 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes For logical reasons, I think we all get so fixated on the energy-sipping “green” characteristics of e-paper displays that we kind of forget that software manages and drives these things, just as it does for LCDs, OLEDs and LEDs. The Slovenian firm Visionect has been focused for years and years on making monochrome e-paper displays …
