Now I’m REALLY Going To Miss Next Week In Barcelona … May 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes Dinners and cocktail party invites regularly come along ahead of out-of-town trade shows, and while I often regret being able to go, few invites I have to turn down hurt as much as this one – a night at the Camp Nou watching Barcelona’s storied men’s football team (the women’s side is also awesome). The …
Target Hits Bullseye With Giant LED Above New Times Square Mini-Store In NYC May 3, 2022 by Paul Fleuranges GUEST POST: Paul Fleuranges Attention Target shoppers and digital signage enthusiasts: Target is now in Times Square. In early April, the retailer opened its 10th Manhattan location on 42nd Street, between 7th and 8th Avenues and across the street from Madame Tussauds. You can’t miss it. Peering above the street-level entrance is a very large …
Materials Firm WL Gore Uses Big Video Walls And Matrix Screen Set-Ups For Award-Winning Briefing Center May 2, 2022 by Dave Haynes This is a very impressive blend of architectural and experiential design put together by a team for the new corporate briefing center of W. L. Gore & Associates, a materials science company. The center in Newark, Delaware is designed to help share the company’s heritage and innovations with partners, customers, and visitors. It recently won …
NOLA’s Airport Using Big, Curved LED Ribbon To Dynamically Locate, Brand Airline Check-in Counters May 2, 2022 by Dave Haynes Here’s another example of an airport adopting LED displays as a core part of the passenger experience – a horizontal LED ribbon display that runs on a curved wall behind the airline check-in counters at the new terminal in New Orleans. It’s a Nanolumens display and one of the rationales for using this sort of …
Last Week’s NAB Show Pulls 52K+ Attendees; Hints At What We Might See With InfoComm In June April 29, 2022 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe is coming up shortly in Spain and InfoComm is just a few weeks later in las Vegas, so trade shows this spring that attract some of the same exhibitors and attendees offer clues as to what might happen when the giant scissors come out and the exhibit halls open for those big …
PR-Shackled CRI Makes Some Cryptic Noise About A Renewal Deal With Whale Retail Client April 29, 2022 by Dave Haynes Winning business with whale clients is always good news for service providers in digital signage, or just about any industry, but it is only rarely news that can get shared around for marketing benefit. That explains the somewhat cryptic news from solutions provider Creative Realities that it has re-upped its business for another three years …
Big Spanish Integrator Trison’s Financial Backers Looking To Cash Out April 29, 2022 by Dave Haynes Sixteen:Nine’s German language partner Invidis is reporting this morning that the big European digital signage and pro AV integrator Trison is up for sale, having appointed a financial advisor to guide a hoped-for transaction. The For Sale sign for the Spanish firm was triggered by Madrid-based financial investor Portobello Capital looking to cash out after …
Electrosonic Co-Founder Bob Simpson Passes Away, At 82 Years April 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes The co-founder of the much-respected pro AV design firm Electrosonic – Bob Simpson – has passed away, peacefully, at the age of 82. I know of the company but never met the man, so I will hand this off to the material in the announcement this afternoon … Mr. Simpson who went by Bob was …
These German Digital Ad Totems Have Moss Backsides And Double As Sidewalk-Level Air Filters April 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to AV Magazine for noting this … Digital OOH media companies have been trying to use smart city add-ons – like community WiFI and IoT sensors – to win city approvals and rights to put ad poster totems on city streets, but a German company has a different spin on all this: a …
Billboard-Maker Media Resources New Solution Compels Endlessly-Pooping Birds To Flock Off April 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes The Toronto-area analog and digital sign firm Media Resources has developed an interesting partnership to use and sell tech that’s specifically designed to keep birds away from billboards. The company says it now has an “industry-exclusive distributorship” for Flock Off, described as a one-of-a-kind bird mitigation system that keeps birds away from billboards and other …
