That Vast Digital Canopy In A Refurbished Manchester Leisure Complex Has Switched On March 20, 2024 by Dave Haynes Photo Credit: SWNS That big digital ceiling in Manchester, UK has now been switched on, with the re-opening of a refurbished Printworks. The entertainment and leisure complex went through a £21million upgrade, with the visual centerpiece a 1,000 sq. meter digital canopy – called Printworks SkyLights – that spans the three internal streets and the …
Las Vegas Sphere To Host InfoComm Kick-Off Event In June March 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes When I was chatting late last year with the AVIXA folks about doing another mixer at InfoComm for June 2024, I suggested the ideal night would be the eve of the show opening. I was told, vaguely, that another event was in the works for that night that would create a significant conflict. Something at …
Boring Is Beautiful: Schiphol Airport Relays Arriving Baggage Status For Passengers Waiting At Carousels March 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes I was chatting the other day with an industry veteran who shares my possibly strange affection for what I call boring digital signage – data and sensors-driven information that is pretty much the polar opposite of on-screen eye candy. It’s just content that informs and guides. Here’s a really good example of that … screens …
Loop Media Board Shows Door To Most Of C-Suite, Starts Layoffs, In Wake Of Ops And Finances Review March 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes The LA-based connected TV service Loop Media – which makes free, ad-supported content channels and digital signage functionality available to businesses – has bingo’d most of its C-Suite and laid off some staff in an effort to slow its burn rate. Jon Niermann is stepping down as CEO, but retaining a board seat, and COO/CMO …
Key-Copying Kiosk Company Has Ad Network Of More Than 4,200 Screens In US Retail March 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Anyone who has been in the digital signage industry for a few years knows how there are always newbie entrepreneurs excited about launching networks that put screens on all kinds of things, in all kinds of places. And anyone who has been in the digital signage industry for a few years knows very few of …
Coca-Cola Takes Over NYC Retail Space For Digitally-Driven SPICED Launch March 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes SO MANY building facades have been virtually altered using CGI, to generate social media shares, that it almost seems unusual to come across a project that looks CGI’d … but is real. Coca-Cola launched a SPICED version of its soda with an immersive, digitally-driven experience using a rented retail space on Lafayette Street in New …
Projection-Mapped Exhibit Includes Feature Wall That Generates Words From Water Vapor (I Think …) March 18, 2024 by Dave Haynes Grand-scale immersive art exhibitions using projection have grown somewhat commonplace in the last five years or so, both as touring shows and permanent venues with rotating shows. Here’s one staged last year in Sydney, Australia that’s a little different in a couple of ways. The Atmospheric Memory installation at the Powerhouse Museum was an exhibition …
Only Things Standing After Twister Takes Out Indiana Taco Bell Are Menu Display Totems And Kiosks March 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s a compelling argument for why the engineering design for outdoor digital displays is about much more than just the brightness of the screen and the ability to exhaust built-up heat. That stuff is super-important, but so are things like how the enclosure is fixed to the ground. Just about the ONLY Thing left standing …
LED Mainstreamed: A 400-Foot Wide LED Billboard On A Parking Garage March 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes Here’s more and different evidence of how LED is now a thoroughly mainstreamed display product: a 400-foot wide display on the side of a parking garage in Las Vegas, well away from the strip. This is the Stadium Parking Garage, which has 638 much-needed parking spots across the street from Allegiant Stadium, where the Super …
Fifth Third Bank Opens Flashy, LED-Forward Branch Inside Cincinnati’s Airport March 15, 2024 by Dave Haynes US banker Fifth Third has opened a flashy new branch, with a big LED gateway and digital canopy inside, at the airport of its head office city, Cincinnati. The full-service branch is located on a concourse of Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport, offering regular banking but also handling foreign currency requests from customers. It replaces a …
