E Ink Gets Anti-Light Pollution Certification; Don’t Expect LED DisplayCos To Follow Suit February 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes With most outdoor LED display manufacturers making brightness a key selling attribute, there’s not much chance of any of them joining E Ink in being certified by an organization that is all about combatting light pollution. Taiwan-based E Ink – by most if not all measures the market leader in e-paper tech – has announced …
World Out Of Home Org Going Ahead With In-Person Global Congress Late May In Toronto February 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes The World Out of Home Organization, whose members include many of the largest media companies on the planet, sees enough settling down of COVID-19 in Canada and elsewhere to go ahead with plans for an in-person Global Congress in Toronto on May 25-27. It will be WOO’s first in-person congress since Dubai in 2019. The …
LG Broadens NFT Digital Art Partnership With Blackdove To Include Corporate Projects February 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes LG has extended a partnership with the digital art curation platform Blackdove from residential into commercial digital signage projects, making it possible to put large format digital artworks on to video walls in venues like office tower lobbies and corporate reception areas. Available in markets worldwide starting this quarter, says PR, Blackdove curation software can …
Volta Expanding Its DOOH Ad-Driven Charging Totem Network To 500+ Walgreens Lots In US February 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes It is easy to imagine the folks at Peerless-AV are having a good February, given the announcement by the DOOH media firm Volta that its EV charging kiosks will be deployed outside some 500 Walgreens stores in the U.S. The Volta display totems/charging stations are supplied by Chicago-based Peerless-AV, which is mainly known in digital …
David Crumley On How HUSH Studios Designs And Delivers Experiential Digital For Some Of World’s Biggest Brands February 16, 2022 by Dave Haynes Experience is one of those soft, squishy terms that gets used a lot in the context of digital signage – using displays and content to attract, engage and leave a desired impression with the people who go through a designed space. There are many projects that get described as visual experiences that aren’t a lot …
Houston’s New Smart City Display Network Generates Revenue By Selling Viewer Data February 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Kiosk industry follower and consultant Craig Keefner has an interesting post up on one of his sites about how a smart city media company makes money from digital display smart totems it puts in for free in large cities. The post in Design Smart City looks into a deployment of 25 kiosks by IKE Smart …
Projection-Mapped Illuminarium In Atlanta Sweats Asset By Adding Immersive Bar To Experiences February 15, 2022 by Dave Haynes Temporary and permanent indoor projection-mapping experiences are starting to grown common in big cities – large, open spaces like old loading docks and storage rooms in which the walls and floors are painted in edge-blended motion and still graphics. The main business model for these spaces is as large-scale art spaces that people can walk …
DOOH-Focused AI Computer Vision Start-up Alfi Adds CMS Partner Amidst Legal Issues February 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes I’d put this in the category of rabbit-holes one can sometimes end up down when looking into something – in this case an AI computer vision startup serving DOOH companies that has found itself in a post-IPO class-action lawsuit. I was doing a never-heard-of-them look into a company called Alfi because a press release out …
Subtle Mini Projection On Tabletop Fixture Helps Market Lab-Grown Diamonds February 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes A lot of what gets attention these days in digital signage and pro AV has to do with scale – the biggest this or that. Here’s something quite effective in retail at small, almost miniature scale. It’s a tabletop projection display by Dallas-based Glass Media for the lab-grown diamond brand Clear Origin. I don’t have …
Digital Displays Evolving From Trade Show Add-Ons To Main Components In Stands February 14, 2022 by Dave Haynes It was about four or five years ago when rental LED displays came up enough in visual quality and durability and down enough in price to make them feasible as backdrops, headers and feature walls in trade show exhibits. Back then, you’d see them here and there – and mostly as add-ons, save the biggest …
