Captivate Expands DOOH Screen Footprint To Include WeWork Offices January 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes The DOOH media company Captivate got its start and is primarily known for its screen network in office tower elevators, but the NYC-based company has been expanding its reach to other areas, like building lobbies, and now, inside co-working spaces. The company has announced a partnership with WeWork “to transform existing digital screens in WeWork …
Delta Air Lines Continuing Big Investment In Digital At Upgraded Hub Airports January 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes Air carrier Delta Air Lines continues to make a huge amount of capital and operating investments in digital displays at new or renovated airport terminals in the U.S. – the latest being a big upgrade at NYC’s JFK airport. Delta made big investments in airport infrastructure in 2022, with brand-new terminals at its New York-LGA …
Broadsign Previewing Reimagined, Evolved DOOH Platform At ISE 2023 January 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes Montreal-based CMS and programmatic software firm Broadsign will be previewing a “reimagined” platform to partners, customers and prospects at its ISE 2023 stand in a couple of weeks in Barcelona. Broadsign says the reworked platform includes unified access to existing Broadsign product subscriptions, audience-based campaign targeting, and expanded static signage operations – the static/print support …
ISE Sixteen:Nine Mixer Sponsor Profiles: MediaVue Systems January 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is fully back after COVID-era disruptions, and Sixteen:Nine is doing a Barcelona version of the networking mixer it has been doing annually at DSE in Las Vegas for the past decade or so. The event (sold out, sorry!) happens because of eight great sponsors who help cover the considerable costs. I like to …
35-Foot “Kaleidoscope” Art Tower In Dallas Built From 400+ Triangular LED Panels January 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is a 35-foot multimedia art tower that uses triangular LED panels to steadily change its appearance for visitors to a big multi-use destination in a suburb of Dallas. Called Grandscape, the 433-acre lifestyle center (which opened in April 2020) has 3.9 million square feet of retail, dining, and entertainment anchors. A post by a designer …
ISE Sixteen:Nine Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Screenfeed January 18, 2023 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is fully back after COVID-era disruptions, and Sixteen:Nine is doing a Barcelona version of the networking mixer it has been doing annually at DSE in Las Vegas for the past decade or so. The event (sold out, sorry!) happens because of eight great sponsors who help cover the considerable costs. I like …
Women in AV/IT Forms With Goal Of Making Industries Safer And More Inclusive January 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes If you have spent any time in the pro AV industry, you’ll know that the gender mix is very much like it is in much of the tech sector – VERY male-dominant. That’s been slowly changing, and while Sales and Marketing, HR and Finance still seem to be the main executive level jobs in this …
Eccentric Japanese Artist Peers Over Times Square From Vast Marriott LED Board January 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes This is an anamorphic illusion spot running on The Billboard That Ate Times Square – the giant LED that is the front face of the lower levels of the Marriott Marquis hotel in New York. These pseudo 3D spot is for Louis Vuitton and features the work of the eccentric Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, most …
Transparent LCDs Part Of Toolset Used To Solve Dutch Sex Assault Cold Case January 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes Police in the Netherlands used those shower-stall like transparent LCD set-ups in shopping malls to help generate leads on a series of sexual assaults of girls, tracing back more than a decade. The incidents go back to 2010, but an effort in late 2021 saw a composite drawing of the suspected offender put on public-facing …
New Salesforce Tower In Sydney Has Biggest Indoor LED Video Wall South Of Equator January 17, 2023 by Dave Haynes One of the more impressive lobby video walls I have seen is in one of the headquarters office towers of Salesforce, in downtown San Francisco. Now there’s an even more impressive variation on that – at the new Salesforce tower in Sydney, Australia. The new development is a 53-story building that is now the second …