STRATACACHE’S Chris Riegel Details Opportunities And Deadly Sins Of In-Store Retail Media December 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes If your company is chasing the retail media networks dream in some fashion – as a vendor, operator or even a brand – this podcast is well worth a listen. It is a nearly one-hour long interview with Chris Riegel of STRATACACHE, talking about the state of retail media networks, its scale and possibilities, and …
Registration Starts Tomorrow For The ISE 2025 Digital Signage Mixer December 16, 2024 by Dave Haynes Tickets go up tomorrow at 10 AM Eastern, 4 PM Central Europe for the 2025 digital signage mixer at ISE in Barcelona. The time is my attempt to bridge a bunch of time zones, while also acknowledging this is more an EMEA event than one for North American industry people. I will post the link …
Europe’s Largest Indoor Billboard Now Just A Very Large Passenger Information Display December 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes The big LED ad display in London’s Euston Station – put in a year ago by DOOH media giant JCDecaux – is now a live travel information board, addressing concerns about the passenger experience being less important than ad revenue. Europe’s largest indoor digital billboard was switched off in October, less than a year after …
Sony Again Making Sustainability Central To ISE Exhibit Hall Presence December 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes In the wake of advancing the ISE plans of PPDS (Philips), I came across information about another big pro AV display vendor, Sony, is doing at the show in Barcelona in early February. Sustainability and ESG policies are not much of a thing beyond the largest North American companies, but it is a big discussion …
PPDS Advances ISE 2025 Presence That Includes New Philips LED And Sustainability Products December 13, 2024 by Dave Haynes The big display manufacturers have started talking up what they will be showing at ISE in Barcelona, though I think some of them might want to get CES PR out of the way before they start touting the shiny new pots and pans they will be showing off in Barcelona. PPDS, aka Philips pro displays …
Italian Digital Artist Quayola Invited To Projection-Map Barcelona’s Casa Batlló Just Ahead Of ISE December 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes While display tech tends to take center stage at Integrated Systems Europe, the big trade show’s organizers are again reminding attendees that creative makes or breaks visual projects – no matter how fine the pixel pitch or high the lumens count. The Barcelona trade show’s creative keynote for the early February event is Davide Quagliola, …
Final Thoughts From DSE 2024, And Some Air Travel Whining December 12, 2024 by Dave Haynes I am back from the US west – Palm Springs and then Las Vegas and a set of flights that really reinforced how I like the being there of travel, but not the getting there. Two hour and four hour delays on the way out, and a swing home that should have got me home …
Impressions From The First Invidis Executive Lounge In US December 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes My friends at the Munich-based consultancy invidis do a bunch of things, including organizing and running a series of executive retreats. They have done several in Europe and just did their first on this side of the pond, in Palm Springs, California. They invited me to join in, doing some interviews with attendees and sharing …
Here’s The List Of The 2024 Digital Signage Experience (DIZZIE) Award Winners December 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes The winners of the 2024 Digital Signage Experience (DIZZIE) Awards were announced and handed out Monday in Las Vegas – celebrating a pile of great projects, as well as two great individuals and one dubious and old fella. The big winner was, as often seems to happen, Montreal’s Moment Factory – for its latest work …
DSE Making Big Changes For 2025: New Format, Timing And Location December 10, 2024 by Dave Haynes Sitting at the airport, heading home from Vegas, and thinking the double Buffalo Trace on rocks nightcap at 1 am something was a flawed notion. Wee bit foggy this morning. DSE is on for its second exhibit hall day but I just did one day, as I have been away a few days. The big …