Spreading Festive Cheer And Driving Sales With In-Store Digital Signage Technologies: Spectrio October 9, 2024 by Super User SPONSORED CONTENT By Ron Levac, Spectrio The holiday season is a critical time for retailers – with the period between October and the end of December often called the golden quarter for sales. A successful holiday season can make a retailer’s year, while a poor one can lead to losses, cash flow problems, and excess …
Outform Founder Ariel Haroush On The Power Of Digital In Retail, And His Ambitious New Future Stores Pop-Up Venture October 9, 2024 by Super User One of the particularly interesting things about Outform is how a company that’s been doing digital in retail for 20-plus years is not all that well known in digital signage circles. Not that it’s hurt the Miami-based company, which has offices and manufacturing facilities all over the world, and has delivered countless tech-centered shopper engagement …
Fans Could See Themselves As Adele On Giant LED Screen During Singer’s Munich Concert Residency October 9, 2024 by Super User Singer Adele’s month-long run at a pop-up concert venue in Munich this summer attracted a lot of attention for the sheer scale of the very wide LED backdrop, but the show also had a clever social media/AR thing happening that allowed fans to have their faces swapping out the star performer’s face. They did that …
Walmart Using Digital Menus To Market New In-Store Pet Services Centers October 9, 2024 by Super User US retailing giant Walmart has started opening what it calls pet services centers, offering what amounts to one-stop shopping for routine pet care needs and using big digital signage displays behind the reception desk to relay what’s available. The stores within the bigger store offer in-person and virtual veterinary care, pet prescription delivery, grooming services, …
LED Displays Now A $9B Global Market; Biggest Sales Growth Now In Americas: Futuresource October 8, 2024 by Super User The research firm Futuresource Consulting has pushed out a new fee-based report about the global LED display market, suggesting it expanded by more than 6% in 2023 and hit sales of $9.0 billion. In a summary of the report, Futuresource says the APAC region (including China), is the most active market, representing almost two-thirds of …
Fingers Crossed For Industry People And Companies In Tampa, As Monster Hurricane Approaches October 8, 2024 by Super User There are numerous digital signage people and companies based in the Tampa, Florida area, which will within the next 48 hours get slammed by Hurricane Milton. The storm developed out of pretty much nothing off the Mexican coast and is now heading east to Florida’s west coast, with the “spaghetti” tracking models all pretty much …
Info Screen In Way Of Subway Station Renos, So Construction Crew Just Builds Around (Most Of) It October 8, 2024 by Super User There will hopefully be some logic to this, but here’s a screwball workaround to dealing with passenger information displays while a subway station is undergoing renovations. Instead of taking a ceiling-mounted display down, the framing crew just built around the screen, so that just a portion of it is now visible to riders. This is …
The Biggest Indoor DOOH Billboard In Europe Derailed At London Station, Just A Year After Lighting Up October 8, 2024 by Super User 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 Super User 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 Super User 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 …