Chicago Highway Billboards Hacked; Ads Swapped For Anti-Semitic Messages October 17, 2024 by Super User Let’s assume the IT team at Outfront Media is CLOSELY reviewing its software security in the wake of a hack Wednesday of several digital billboards in the Chicago area, with booked ads replaced by anti-semitic messages linked to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A Palestinian flag was used as the background for messages that were overtly anti-Israel. You …
Sixteen-Nine Podcast: How Videotel Sustained Its Business for 44 Years October 17, 2024 by invidis Redaktion How Videotel evolved from manufacturing VCRs for digital signage over 40 years ago to modern media players – this week’s episode on the Sixteen:Nine podcast, hosted by invidis content partner Dave Haynes.
Trump: “The Most Beautiful Word in the Dicitonary Is Tariff” January 20, 2025October 17, 2024 by Florian Rotberg In three weeks, the U.S. will elect a new president, choosing between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Trump has promised to impose broad punitive tariffs on imported goods. What would be the impact of increased US trade protectionism on digital signage?
invidis Background: Retail Media Is Not DooH October 24, 2024October 17, 2024 by Antonia Hamberger Retailers, like the British Coop chain, have started to explore shop windows for “front-of-store” DooH networks. These networks show where DooH fundamentally differs from retail media.
Another Hologram-ish Shower Stall Product Surfaces, But Done A Bit Differently October 17, 2024 by Super User The huge GITEX tech trade show is on right now in Dubai and among the acres of bling – it’s Dubai, so there’s no end of that – is a Lithuanian video conferencing company doing its own take on those transparent displays I unfortunately liken to shower stalls. During GITEX GLOBAL 2024, says PR, TrueConf …
Wi-Charge Adds A 9-Inch Shelf-Edge Display To Its Battery And Cord-Free Product Line October 17, 2024 by Super User The Israeli tech firm Wi-Charge has added a 9-inch flat panel display to its product line – larger than earlier models but like those, powered over the air without using cables or batteries. Nine inches may seem small to digital signage people who now regard 55-inch flat panels as being small-ish, but these are intended …
This LED Ad Display Flies Around October 17, 2024 by Super User Airplanes have been towing printed advertising banners across city skylines for decades, so it was inevitable that someone would develop a service that uses heavy-duty drones to carry suspended promotions and ad banners, including digital ones. Here’s a video of a Japanese company’s LED Vision Drone, based on a remote-controlled drone that can carry a …
Out Of Home Giant JC Decaux Now Rating Environmental Friendliness Of Its Ad Faces October 17, 2024 by Super User The French media company JC Decaux has developed and introduced an “Eco Design Index” that reflects the environmental friendliness of its street-level ad displays as well as the substantially different points of view about environmental issues in digital out of home. Sustainability and what has been coined green signage are big issues and discussion points …
How Videotel’s Roots In Digital Signage Media Players Trace Back More Than 40 Years October 17, 2024 by Super User There are not a lot of companies that have been involved in what we now call digital signage for 44 years, but Videotel has been selling technology that puts marketing information on screens since 1980. The company started with VCRs (younger readers may have to Google that) and then started designing, manufacturing and selling DVD …
DooH: The Shop Window Becomes the New Star October 24, 2024October 16, 2024 by Florian Rotberg More and more retailers are introducing shop window screens, not only for their own promotions but also for DooH advertising. The British grocer Coop now announced to start a front-of-store DooH network using the Grassfish CMS.
