Lamar Repurposes Vinyl Billboard Prints As Tarps For Florida Homeowners With Hurricane-Damaged Roofs October 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes Not digital, but worth noting and celebrating: The big outdoor media firm Lamar Advertising has a great initiative to help out SW Florida homeowners who were clobbered a week ago by Hurricane Ian, with the company repurposing big and rugged vinyl billboard prints as tarps for damaged roofs. So a home missing some or all …
French Theme Park Creates 360-Degree LED Theater For Tornado-Chaser Experience October 5, 2022 by Dave Haynes Via AV Interactive … Tornadoes are mainly associated with the US Midwest, but they also happen in other areas and countries – including France. There’s enough of an interest in twisters, and the weather violence that they generate, that a theme park in France has invested more than 21 million EU to create a new …
LED Display Marketplace Forecast To Grow At 21% CAGR Through 2026: Futuresource October 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes The total LED marketplace is expected to reach sales of some $19.5 billion by 2026, growing at a compound rate of 21%, suggests UK-based research firm Futuresource in its 2022 Global LED Display Market Report. This is a category in its ascendancy, says the firm in a brief on the fee-based report, with new projections indicating a …
Appspace Deepens Google Ties With Chrome Enterprise Integration October 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes The workplace-focused software firm Appspace has a long history of developing tight ties with tech giants, going back to the years when it was largely joined at the sales hip with Cisco. More recently, the company has been working with Google, and those ties are now more formalized through what’s termed as Appspace for Google. …
NHL Makes In Arena Rinkboards Digital, But Only Virtually October 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes I don’t know if this qualifies as digital signage or digital out of home, but whatever the case, a move by the National Hockey League to virtually digitize the boards that surround playing surfaces is quite interesting. The NHL is debuting what it calls Digitally Enhanced Dasherboards (DEDs) that allow dynamic, targeted advertising for its …
NYC’s Historic Tin Building Gets What’s Described As Biggest US Install Of LED-Embedded Glass October 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes What is described as the largest US Installation of architectural-grade LED-embedded media glass has been switched on at the newly renovated Tin Building in NYC’s South Street Seaport District. The historic building uses some 1,140 square feet of 20mm transparent LED glass on a divider between the marketplace area and the escalator – allowing patrons …
PC Chip Shortage Has Swung To Oversupply Situation; Samsung Cuts Sales Forecast by Almost One-Third October 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes There are indications that the semiconductor supply chain issues that tightened availability of electronics components and extended manufacturing and delivery times on key components has eased, and that the situation has already swung to an oversupply situation because of slumping demands for PC products. Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest memory chipmaker, has lowered its sales …
DSE’s Dizzies Awards Finalist List Released October 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Experience organizers, in collaboration with the Digital Signage Federation Advisory Board, has put out the final list of nominated installations and content for what has been dubbed The Dizzies – the show’s annual excellence awards that were called the Apex Awards by the old, now-defunct Digital Signage Expo. Questex bought the assets …
Germany Eases Off Energy Restrictions For Digital Signage And DOOH Displays October 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes Energy restrictions that directly affected the digital signage business in Germany have been refined and eased. The government there has amended its Energy Saving Ordinance to now be just overnight, pulled back from a ban that limited operations to just 4 pm to 10 pm at night. “All stakeholders can live with that,” writes Florian …
Just 100 Tickets Left For Sixteen:Nine DSE Mixer Next Month October 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes I’m back, and happy I kinda sorta checked out for a couple of weeks – though I did keep an eye on emails. We had a hurricane in there but our experience was nothing like what’s facing people in south Florida after Ian flattened and washed away homes, businesses and a lot of pleasure boats. …
