Synect, YCD The Big Winners For 2022 Global Digital Signage Awards August 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes The results of the global Digital Signage Awards for 2022 are now out, with the Grand Prix winners YCD and Synect, for work done in airports. The awards – Sixteen:Nine is a primary sponsor – were judged by an international panel of people who actually work in the industry, and not just as trade journalists …
More Detail On Germany’s Energy Savings-Focused Digital Signage And DOOH Restrictions August 25, 2022 by Florian Rotberg Partner Post: Florian Rotberg, Invidis This post originally appeared on the site of Sixteen:Nine’s German language content partner, Invidis. On Wednesday, the federal government approved two energy-saving regulations which, among other things, also restrict the operation of illuminated and self-illuminating advertising systems (DooH, digital signage in shop windows). An exception was considered for outdoor advertising. …
Home Of NFL’s Colts Gets LED Display Upgrade; Big Bump In Replay Screen Clarity August 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes Daktronics has a new competitor chasing the business for super-large LED displays in pro sports venues, with SNA Displays winning a deal to kit out with mega-screens the upgraded home of the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts. SNA, the US-operated wing of Chinese manufacturer Sansi, has supplied a pair of 53 feet high by 93 feet wide …
Proto’s Mini Hologram-ish Display Gets Its First Public Tryout In AT&T Pop-Up Lounge August 25, 2022 by Dave Haynes When I saw the reduced size version of Proto’s hologram-ish transparent LCD display at InfoComm back in June, I was struggling to come up with a use-case for the units – much more so than for the life-sized, shower stall-like seven foot tall units. It’s one thing to see a person captured on a cleverly-lit …
Boston Residential Tower Uses Wraparound Fine-Pitch LED To Greet And Inform Tenants, Visitors August 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Much of the attention here for LED displays in corporate lobbies has been on the size of the video walls and big-budget creative pieces, but I’m also seeing some nice projects going live that have much more modest budgets but manage to get properly designed into spaces (as opposed to just added on). In this …
Media Companies Upping DOOH Billboard Design Games To Win Approvals In West Hollywood August 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes There’s still and probably always will be no end of digital posters and billboards on city sidewalks, building facades and along roadsides that are just screens that make a minimal if any nod to aesthetics. But we’re also seeing some media companies make an effort to appeases the concerns of the people who live and …
Videotel Adds Dual HDMI 4K Industrial-Grade Digital Signage Player To Product Line-Up August 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes San Diego-based Videotel Digital has added a 4K industrial-grade unit to its wide array of connected and standalone media play-out and interactive digital signage boxes. The VP92 4K box does up to 3840 x 2160 resolution, has two HDMI outs, and comes installed with free cloud-based management software. The units can also be customized to …
Hybrid Working Model Here To Stay; Tech Upgrades Needed: Research August 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes There were all kinds of predictions from experts about how the pandemic and health safety concerns would change workplaces, and as offices and other working environments have re-populated, there’s tangible research indicating what’s really happening. New research from Futuresource Consulting suggests that the hybrid working model is indeed here to stay, with nearly half (45%) …
Telmo Silva On How ClicData Aggregates And Harmonizes Data Sources To Help Optimize On-Screen Messaging August 24, 2022 by Dave Haynes Integrating data has increasingly climbed the priority list for more ambitious and involved digital signage and digital OOH projects. The big driver for that is how near or real-time data makes what’s on-screen automated and triggered, which means more timely, targeted and therefore relevant messaging. Lots of CMS software companies offer some degree of data …
Looming Energy Shortages Forcing Digital Signage, DOOH Screens Off Overnight In Europe August 23, 2022 by Dave Haynes My very smart content partners at the German consulting and publishing firm Invidis have been writing in recent years about the importance of what they call green signage, and how energy usage is an increasingly big consideration in how digital signage and Digital OOH technology is sourced and used in Europe. The company’s German language …