The Biggest Indoor DOOH Billboard In Europe Derailed At London Station, Just A Year After Lighting Up October 8, 2024 by Dave Haynes Europe’s largest indoor digital billboard has been switched off less than a year after being installed, but not for technical or energy conservation reasons. The government-owned company that manages the UK’s train network and stations has ordered the big ad display shut off because of larger problems, like overcrowding, at London’s Euston Station. Network Rail …
Valuable Reading: QSR Magazine’s Annual Drive-Thru Report Is Out October 7, 2024 by Dave Haynes If you sell into the QSR sector – whether that’s hardware or software – this is valuable (and free) reading: the annual QSR Drive-Thru report produced by QSR magazine, which focuses on guess what. The report is based on site visits at the biggest US chains to generate metrics on such things as speed of …
Registration Now Open For ISE 2025: Here’s The Need To Know Stuff If You’re Going October 7, 2024 by Dave Haynes Registration is now open for Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), the giant annual pro AV trade show and conference set for Feb 3-7, 2025 in Barcelona. The 2024 event had more than 1,400 exhibitors and pulled 73,891 unique, verified attendees from 162 countries. The company that puts the event together for its trade association owners (AVIXA …
ARHT Media Files For Bankruptcy; Hologram-ish Display Solution Doesn’t Realize Needed Scale October 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes A Toronto company marketing its take on those shower stall-like transparent LCD displays has filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations at a main and satellite offices, laying off staff and contractors ARHT Media is/was among a handful of startups selling a solution that is mostly about enabling remote appearances by capturing people in front of …
NC Auto Dealer Uses Service Counter Menu Display To Show How Its Fees Match Up With Competitors October 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes Digital menu boards are mostly associated with the quick service restaurant business, but they can also be used effectively by other kinds of products and services businesses – like auto dealers. I’ve seen numerous menus in dealerships showing services, fees and promotions. I don’t think I have seen this, though – a dealer in North …
Near-Transparent LED Panels Create Faux Water Feature At Guilin, China Exhibition Hall October 4, 2024 by Dave Haynes The flowery descriptions and misuse of holographic and invisible are a bit much, but this installation using super-thin mesh-like display panels made by the Chinese company Muxwave is nonetheless interesting. There was a point when big video walls started replacing things like high-maintenance water features in the lobbies of commercial buildings, and now we have …
Super-Clever LED Fins Make Store’s Media Facade On Narrow High Street Visible To People Approaching On Foot October 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes This is a fantastically well-conceived, engineered and executed digital media facade on the front of a perfume company’s flagship store and HQ in Andorra. A set of vertical LED fins enable views from people walking toward the building, even though the pedestrian-only high street is very narrow. Barcelona-based creative technology studio Instronic did the job …
How Do You Market An Important But Profoundly Dull CMS Feature? Make A Disco Song About It. October 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes Quite regularly now I get emails from companies with press releases about how their software platform has adopted some security protocol or completed some certification process. While that stuff is VERY important, it doesn’t make for the most compelling posts. And it is also pretty hard for the company to market effectively. Which brings me …
Vertiseit Acquires Visual Art; Fast Becoming One Of Europe’s Largest Digital Signage Solutions Companies October 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes Consolidation in the digital signage solutions market in Europe is continuing with word, this morning, that Vertiseit is taking over its Swedish competitor Visual Art, with the Stockholm-based company continuing to operate as an independent company under the Vertiseit umbrella. The transaction was funded in multiple ways, the most interesting one being financing from Bonnier …
Kitcast Goes Enterprise With V2 Of Its Apple TV-centric CMS Platform October 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes I get emails all the time from software companies saying they’ve released version 3.1.2a of their platform and I tend to ignore them … because if I write about one, I kinda feel obligated to write about them all. Which would consume my days and see readers slipping into comas However, I will write about …
