Start-Up Cloudshelf Expands Beyond Shopify With API That Works With Most E-Comm Platforms October 27, 2023 by Dave Haynes The UK start-up that developed a way to smoothly bridge Shopify small business e-commerce sites to in-store retail kiosks and interactive screens has now come up with a software handshake that works, it says, with just about any e-commerce, CMS, or ERP platform. “We believe that every retailer should be able to create a seamless …
Digital Signage Experience Announces 2023 DSE (DIZZIE) Awards Finalists October 26, 2023 by Dave Haynes Finalists have been announced for the Digital Signage Experience Awards – nicknamed the Dizzies – that recognize great installations or campaigns that apply the technology. The awards will be announced during the trade show and conference, which is coming up Dec. 2-5 in Las Vegas. Here is a compilation video … You are currently viewing …
Interesting: A Big All-In-One LED Display That Folds In October 25, 2023 by Dave Haynes All in one LED displays are now commonplace across a variety of manufacturers – in part because they offer portability, but probably more so because the companies selling them and the customers buying them can readily get their heads around the idea of a giant TV. It’s far easier to explain a jumbo TV than …
VSBLTY Advances Deal To Acquire Grocer-Focused Retail Media Operator Shelf Nine October 25, 2023 by Dave Haynes Philly-based VSBLTY has progressed from an LOI to a definitive purchase agreement for retail media network operator Shelf Nine, which has some 4,500 screens running in US groceries. The deal is positioned as a merger and is built around shares, as opposed to a cash transaction. It also appears to get Shelf Nine clear of …
ZetaDisplay Changes At Top, With Mandorf No Longer CEO; Fully Leaving Company At End Of Year October 23, 2023 by Dave Haynes The CEO of one of Europe’s larger, often regionalized digital signage solutions providers has stepped down, with a successor already in place today as the head of Malmo, Sweden-based Zeta Display. Per Mandorf has stepped down down after more than four years, after growing the company organically and through acquisitions, with a main focus on …
100+ Square, Framed LCDs Celebrate Hamburger U Trainees At McDonald’s Global HQ October 20, 2023 by Dave Haynes There’s a lot of good stuff going on with the experiential design and execution for the relocated downtown Chicago headquarters building of QSR giant McDonald’s. The company was in suburban Chicago for decades, but shifted its global headquarters to the Chicago West Loop, in a historic-looking building designed by Gensler. The HQ opened in 2018, …
Uniguest Makes Another Acquisition, This Time Healthcare Tech Firm pCare October 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes When people ask me about vertical markets that are poised for growth, I tend to say now that the industry has started to tap the opportunity for back-of-house, non-office workplace environments, the next big one is health care. We’ve seen some announcements recently from LG and Samsung that suggest they see it as well, and …
This Dubai Company Has Almost-Crazy Variety Of Kinetic Digital Display Options October 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes I stumbled across this company on Linkedin – a Dubai firm called Lazulite that does a wild variety of work using those kinetic/robotic displays that operate a bit like synchronized drawers on sliders, with LEDs on the face of each drawer. This is the same family of tech that was used for the ill-fated and …
Clever Digital Art Piece Traps People Between Books On A Shelf October 19, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is much more art than commercial signage, but a fun and interesting approach to mixing screens with physical objects. Japanese multimedia artist Hiroyasu Shimo put a screen in behind books on a bookshelf and created video that makes it appear that tiny people are stuck between the books. Hat tips Alix Pennycuick and Stephan …
Screenly Launches Hyper-Secure Power Bi App To Integrate Visualized Data Tools And Digital Signage October 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes There are numerous CMS software companies indicating in their features and benefits that their platforms have integrated with Microsoft’s popular and powerful business intelligence and data visualization tool, Power BI. I don’t have enough nerd in me to discern what’s the optimal way to go at this, but I asked Bristol, UK-based Screenly CEO Viktor …
