Touring Experiential Digital Shrine To Footballing Deity Lionel Messi Opens In Miami April 29, 2024 by Super User Photos – Bruno Aïello-Destombes/Moment Factory An immersive attractions company that had previously been touring projection-mapped shows featuring painting masters like Van Gogh and Monet has now turned its attention to a very modern master, with very different skills – footballing’s biggest star, Lionel Messi. The Messi Experience opened last week in Miami – a nine-room, …
Signagelive Automates High Volume Video Content Production And Delivery Via Integration With Serb Start-up Plainly April 29, 2024 by Super User The UK CMS software firm Signagelive has a long history of looking around the corners at what’s now possible, or will be soon, when it comes to emerging technologies and software integrations. CEO Jason Cremins was talking, for example, about things like cloud, headless CMS and low/no code well before most other companies. Now the …
Adtech Firm Ivee Partners With Taxi Tech Firm CMT For New Approach To DOOH Screens In Back Seats Of Rideshares And Taxis April 26, 2024 by Super User Another adtech/media company is taking a run at turning the back seats of hired ride vehicles into a media environment with the Chicago-based “software mobility company” Ivee launching what it calls Smart Taxi, in a partnership with NYC-based taxi technology company Creative Mobile Technologies (CMT). The core concept is tablet-sized screens in the back seats …
BrightSign Offers Sustainability-Focused Trade-In Incentive Program For EOL’d Players April 26, 2024 by Super User This may be common, for all I know, with tech hardware – but it’s new to me: an AV hardware manufacturer running a trade-in incentive plan. Silicon Valley-based BrightSign has launched a Trade-In Program that encourages end-users with end-of-life (EOL) or now underspec’d earlier versions of its little purple media players to return them and …
DSE Releases Initial Speaker Line-up For December 2024 Event In Las Vegas April 26, 2024 by Super User Questex, the industry events company behind Digital Signage Experience (DSE), has started marketing the 2024 versions set for early December in Las Vegas, announcing a set of speakers who will be in front of mikes for the education component of the show. The speakers are vendors and end-users, and DSE says the intent is for …
Clever Adidas Campaign Turns Stockholm DOOH Totems Into Competitive Running Checkpoints April 26, 2024 by Super User This is a clever campaign done to market Adidas in Stockholm, Sweden – a digital OOH campaign tied to an app that lets runners compete for times between ad totems that double up for this as race start and finish checkpoints. The Billboard Run asks avid runners to scan a QR code on a DOOH …
Video: E Ink Shows Its Full Range Of Color E-Paper Displays April 25, 2024 by Super User Presumably timing this to Touch Taiwan this week and a big exhibit stand at that show, E Ink has put out a promo video that walks through its current product portfolio. Lots of display companies do that, of course, but most display companies have products that already look really good – whereas E Ink has …
Flexible LEDs Create Giant Digital “Wisdom Tree” April 25, 2024 by Super User The Shenzhen LED manufacturer Ocolour seems to specialize in somewhat unconventional products – both in shape and where they go. I see lots of interesting stuff from them posted on Linkedin, but I don’t tend to write about much of it because the descriptions often don’t do much more than say something is round, or …
Is This The Worst DOOH Deployment … Ever? April 25, 2024 by Super User Oh dear … The idea of putting ad screens in the washrooms of bars and restaurants – including embedded in urinals, no really – has been around forever, but as flawed as the early-stage DOOH networks in those environments might have been, they were brilliant when stacked up against this operating ad network in Malaysia. …
Did You Know A Curved LED Wall Could Support Touch? Me Neither … April 25, 2024 by Super User When finer pitch LED video wall tech started coming on the market, one of the knocks other than the big one – high cost – was how the technology would not support touchscreen interactivity. The little light emitters were easily damaged or even knocked off, so big video walls were often roped off or had …
