Future Displays: The Path And Challenges Of MicroLED Display Technology January 16, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is a shortened version of a story from the Sixteen:Nine Future Displays report – a free download available to all readers. You can find the information and download page here … Let’s be honest: while microLED display technology can deliver big, gorgeous video wall displays for the digital signage and pro AV industries, it’s …
Swatch Store In Milan Uses Series of Wall-Embedded LED Columns To Drive Experience January 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is a Swatch store in Milan with an interesting approach to LED displays embedded into the walls and between a series of product displays. More typically, stores seem to either use one big feature LED wall or have displays of these dimensions set up like horizontal ribbons. In this case, there are seven Samsung …
That Crazy, LED-First Footy Stadium Outside Riyadh Is Getting Built January 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes When multi-billion dollar, way over the top mega-projects like sports stadiums are announced, it is entirely reasonable to wonder if they’ll ever go beyond the press release phase. But arguably the most ambitious, digital-filled stadium to ever get announced is now in early construction in Saudi Arabia. The grounds for the plateau-edge Prince Mohammed bin …
Future Displays: Exploring The Display Technology Landscape Of Today And Tomorrow January 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes Who knows what displays will look like well into the future, but what we all see today is pretty much what we’re all going to see in five to 10 years – though their form and underlying technologies are most certainly evolving. And will continue to do so. This Future Displays report started out as …
UK Electronics Retailer Currys Expands Its “Connected Media” Network To Almost 300 Screen-Filled Stores January 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes UK electronics retailer Currys is happy enough with what it has been seeing from its retail media network that it is expanding the footprint across its full estate of almost 300 stores in the UK and Ireland, with each of the stores typically having 100+ screens. The expanded Currys Connected Media network is a partnership …
MicroLED Display Shipments Expected To Still Be Just 0.9% Of Overall Display Market By 2031: Omdia January 15, 2025 by Dave Haynes New research from Omdia projects that shipments of microLED displays will grow to 34.6 million units by 2031, but that number will still represent just 0.9% of the total display market … and a lot of that will be for tiny footprint displays like the lenses of smart glasses. Omdia suggests in a summary from …
Italian Solutions Provider M-Cube Now Using AI-Generated Music For In-Store Radio January 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes The Italian digital solutions provider M-Cube, one of Europe’s largest pro AV integrators, has started using AI-generated music for in-store radio in the luxury retail market that is its main customer base. M-Lab is described as an AI-powered music catalog designed exclusively for the retail industry, with all the music in M-Lab created using AI …
Barcelona’s nsign.tv Latest CMS To Build Computer Vision-based Audience Measurement Into Platform January 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes Barcelona-based CMS software firm nsign.tv has joined the growing list of providers that have built audience measurement directly into its solution, as opposed to aligning or integrating with a dedicated third-party computer vision platform. SaaS-based nsign.tv has launched Nsign People, which it says enables businesses to measure the effectiveness of their communications in physical spaces …
Giant LED Facade On Seoul Flagship Dep’t Store Boosts In-Store Sales, YoY, By 20% January 14, 2025 by Dave Haynes The rationale for large footprint LED displays in busy urban areas is almost universally about the number of eyeballs and the directly related opportunity to view advertising spots, but a giant wraparound billboard over the entry to a Seoul department store has a different, and super-interesting metric: in-store sales. The big, new Samsung-made LED display …
T-Mobile Has $600M Deal To Buy AdTech Firm Vistar Media January 13, 2025 by Dave Haynes Mobile carrier T-Mobile has a definitive agreement to acquire Vistar Media, the leading provider of technology solutions for digital-out-of-home (DOOH) advertisements reaching millions of consumers throughout their daily lives. T-Mobile will pay approximately $600 million in cash, subject to closing adjustments. Through the T-Mobile Advertising Solutions business, T-Mobile will acquire all of Vistar’s industry-leading capabilities. …
