Historic Building Getting Giant LED Display On Facade As Part Of Yorkshire City’s Revitalization April 18, 2023 by Super User I tend to avoid posting stories about deployments that are in a planning stage because a lot of them never get beyond planning, but a development in Bradford, England has the support of that northern city’s council and looks to actually happen. An entertainment venue that once hosted bands like the Beatles and Rolling Stones, …
DOOH Media Company Using Loopy Recipe Ideas On Subway To Drive Ad Impressions April 18, 2023 by Super User Photo credit: Hell Gate An NYC-focused news site called Hell Gate has a post up that gets into how the out of home media company Outfront is using purposefully bizarre quick-form recipe videos on MTA subway screens to attract attention. Subway riders getting around that city might look up at one of the screens in …
Merchandised Smartphones Turned Into Teeny Video Walls For Mobile Retailers April 18, 2023 by Super User Mobile retailers have long been regarded as environments that would really benefit from digital signage technology because of the constant evolution of devices and subscription plans, but I hadn’t really thought of the various smartphones on display in stores being used as digital signs. I came across a company called SensorMedia that does what it …
DSF’s Next Mix And Mingle Set For May 4th In Toronto April 17, 2023 by Super User The Digital Signage Federation has settled on a date and venue for its next “Mix & Mingle” networking event – May 4th at the as Canadian-as-it-gets Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, and then at a (very) nearby pub. The hall of fame venue, if you don’t know Toronto, is in a historic corner building …
Under Armour Clads London “Brand House” Windows With Transparent LED April 17, 2023 by Super User The big old Battersea Power Station along the south side of Thames in London has been converted to a shopping and entertainment destination, revived after decades of sitting derelict. It’s all new-build retail inside, and some big brands are spending big dollars to get noticed – like Under Armour. Nike’s store used semi-transparent LED in …
AVIXA Details Its Digital Signage Plans For InfoComm In June, Including A Sixteen:Nine Mixer! April 14, 2023 by Super User AVIXA, the pro AV-focused trade organization, has released its digital signage event and programming plans for the 2023 edition of InfoComm, June 10-16 in Orlando. Among many things is a version of the Sixteen:Nine networking mixers that have been part of big digital signage events for the past decade or so. The Sixteen:Nine Digital Signage …
Help Size And Rank The Digital Signage Industry Through This Survey April 14, 2023 by Super User Two things happen all the time for me with respect to the size and characteristics of the digital signage software and services market: Industry contacts, investors and consulting firms email or call me asking what research is available (precious little, I respond); I react in writing to third-party posts and presentations that reference junk research …
Dubai Luxury Resort Invests Heavily in Fine Pitch LED And MicroLED Displays April 14, 2023 by Super User Fine pitch LED and microLED are big visual features at a glitzy new resort in a place where budgets are often not all that tight or fixed – Dubai. Atlantis The Royal, a new resort from on Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, has big LED displays in the lobby, in the spa and on the pool …
CRI Gets Into Digital OOH Via New Deal With Shopping Center-Focused Starlite Media April 13, 2023 by Super User Creative Realities has announced a deal it says could involve as many as 5,000 new screens for a deployment led by a media company that’s mainly focused on large outdoor shopping centers anchored by big boxes and supermarkets. Starlite Media already has some 6,000 ad faces in top markets around the US, but most of …
Stumped: Some Office Uses A Tree Trunk, Boards To Mount Flat Panel Display April 13, 2023 by Super User This is circulating on Linkedin – a photo of a screen that uses a log, what look like some decking planks and shelving brackets as its mounting pedestal. It’s kind of fantastic, in a twisted sort of way. AV vet Jim Bowles posted this without detail on the where and what, and asked for comments …
