You Can Now Book 15 Seconds Of Digital Billboard Fame In Times Square – For $40 January 13, 2023 by Dave Haynes The owner/operators of a new multi-purpose development in NYC’s Times Square are making it possible for people to book 15 second messages on its 18,000-sq. ft. LED screen for $40 – an offer already taken up by a Scottish man, who used his fleeting moment of purchased fame to eat a slice of bread in …
Swedish Grocer’s Flagship Adds Vast LED Display To Back Wall; Plus Digital Endcaps January 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes Here’s yet more evidence that LED has been mainstreamed by the people who design things like retail spaces – a supermarket in Sweden that now sports a 16-meter-wide LED videowall over the bulk food section. The 52-foot LED wall is in a flagship store of the grocer Maxi ICA, at the Stormarknad Universitetet store in …
Gensler Brings On Disney’s Top Imagineer To Run Experience Design Practice January 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes I have absolutely no background or real insight into architectural design, but logic tells me the people who design physical spaces have always factored experience into their designs, going back to the oldest cathedrals and palaces and other monumental structures. These days, experience directly influences the design of big spaces like airports and rail terminals, …
Digital Signage Part Of Microsoft’s Expanding Omnichannel Platform For Retail January 12, 2023 by Dave Haynes Did Microsoft just get into retail digital signage? It looks like it, though only kinda sorta – via a new service called PromoteIQ In-Store, which the technology giant says will come available sometime later in 2023. It is part of the company’s broader retail media platform, PromoteIQ – a toolset that enables interactions with consumers …
Reader Tips On Where And What To Eat And See In Barcelona During ISE 2023 Week January 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes Updated … Some great responses have come in regarding a request for tips and what to see and do and, particularly, where to eat and drink in Barcelona, during ISE. I wanted to compile a list for people, like me, who’ve not been to the city, and who just have a general sense that it …
Global DOOH Spending Up Almost 25% In 2022, Led By US: PQ Media January 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes The boutique media research firm PQ Media suggests global digital OOH media spending grew by almost 25% in 2022, most notably in the US where spending surged by 36.9%. The Stamford, CT company, which has been around the DOOH/emerging media sector for the last 20 years, expects both global and US DOOH ad spend to …
New Rise Vision Feature Turns Classroom Interactive Panels Into Emergency Alert Screens January 11, 2023 by Dave Haynes Digital signage platforms used in schools have long offered tie-ins to safety alert systems to push emergency messaging to screens in common areas like fining halls and lobbies, but a new feature from the CMS software firm Rise Vision pushes messaging to interactive screens in classrooms that are in place for teaching. The alerts and …
Jannatul Choudhury Relates How He Makes Freemium Work For His PosterBooking Digital Signage Platform January 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes Jannatul Choudhury found his way into the digital signage software business out of frustration – writing his own cloud-based platform because the one he was under contract to use and maintain gave him endless headaches. The Manchester, UK software developer wrote the code and is now growing out the functionality and installed footprint of what …
Uniguest Makes Several C-Level Changes; Hiscox Dials Back Role To Be Board Chairman January 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes The new year is bringing yet more C-suite changes in the digital signage ecosystem – the latest being word that the leadership is changing at hospitality-focused services provider Uniguest. Matt Goche is shifting from COO to CEO of the Nashville-based company, with now-former CEO Jeff Hiscox dialing back his activity after six years to be …
Future Displays: AUO Shows High-Rez Transparent MicroLED At CES January 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes MicroLED displays that are genuinely that technology – and not the almost microLED video walls marketed by display manufacturers – are starting to get demonstrated at consumer-focused trade shows like CES in Las Vegas, and the potential is exciting. As you can see in the main photo, this is an AUO display shown at the …
