Salesforce: Lobby Turned Christmas Market January 2, 2025January 1, 2025 by Florian Rotberg San Francisco | Large-format LEDs in corporate headquarters are a common sight in US city centers. Local building codes require cultural investments as a percentage of the building total. LED video art, as generously used by Salesforce in San Francisco, is one of them.
Dubai: The World’s Tallest Building with New LED January 3, 2025January 1, 2025 by Florian Rotberg New Year’s Eve at Burj Khalifa is one of the world’s iconic celebrations, alongside those in Sydney and New York City. In Dubai, fireworks blend with the largest LED facade on the globe. After an upgrade in early December, the screen that wraps around the Burj Khalifa has become brighter and more colorful. The 2025 …
7m EUR: Digital Signage Tender for Madrid January 2, 2025January 1, 2025 by Florian Rotberg Spanish train station operator Adif AV is completing rebuilding one of Spain’s most important stations. In order to bring the station up to date in regards to digital signage, the state infrastructure operator is tendering a €7 million equipment contract.
Year in Review: Harry Horn | Scala January 2, 2025January 1, 2025 by Guest Contributor Harry Horn from Scala explains in his Year in Review why 2024 was and 2025 will be the year of retail media for the company.
Action, Tedi & Co: Discounters on the Rise January 2, 2025December 31, 2024 by Florian Rotberg According to Germany’s retail association HDE, the number of retail stores in Europe’s largest economy has fallen by 18% over the last ten years – today, Germany has around 66,000 fewer stores than in 2015. While many retailers closed down, especially in the mid-price segment, the discount and fast-fashion segments are booming. Discounters such as …
The Top 10 Sixteen:Nine Posts For 2024 December 31, 2024 by Super User Here’s a look at the top posts from 2024 – in terms of views from readers – on Sixteen:Nine. If there is any clarity from this top 10 list, it is that reader interests are all over the place 😉 Clever Campaign Turns Blackened Ballpark LED Display Into Marketing Gold Changi Re-Opens Terminal 2 With …
EDM Artist Anyma’s Stand At Las Vegas Sphere Raises Content Game For Acts That Might Follow December 31, 2024 by Super User Much has been written about the visuals developed for live concerts at Sphere in Las Vegas – everything from amazed (Phish) to underwhelmed (Eagles). But the first electronic act to play the giant LED clad ball clearly put a huge amount of focus on the visual experience. The American DJ Anyma is in the midst …
CES 2025: Scalable AI Video Production for Digital Signage January 2, 2025December 30, 2024 by Florian Rotberg Since the introduction of the C-Lab program in 2012, Samsung has supported over 900 projects and startups. At CES 2025, Samsung presents new, promising C-Lab startups, this time including 10km.ai, a GenAI video production platform for digital signage.
Kiosks: Building Blocks instead of Off-the-Shelf January 2, 2025December 30, 2024 by Florian Rotberg The demand for standard digital signage kiosk solutions and standard interactive totems remains disappointing. European brands prefer individual design and QSR chains require complex backend system connections as well as country-specific certified payment systems. So far, there has been no relevant market for off-the-shelf kiosk systems. But the market is changing.
Executive Retreat Interviews Part 1: Bluefin, OpenEye, Korbyt and SageNet December 30, 2024 by Super User Just prior to DSE, I was in Palm Springs to take part in an executive retreat for the digital signage crowd, organized and run by my friends at invidis, the consultancy and publishing company based in Munich. They have done these events in Europe for a few years now: an invitation-based two-day gathering that is …
