Dave Ianonne Explains First Arriving’s Absolute Focus On Digital Signage For First Responders February 2, 2022 by Dave Haynes I’m a big fan of digital signage companies that identify a niche and go after it with a lot of focus – in product development, sales and service delivery. A lot of companies are generalists who broadly do digital signage, which I think can be deadly … because you’re then competing mainly on price and …
Iowa State’s New Sports Performance Center Uses Digital All Through Facility February 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes I have seen numerous upgrades for US college football programs that packed in a lot of digital signage in the locker rooms, but here’s a project that uses digital throughout a college’s new high performance center for student athletes. It’s at Iowa State – which has completed a 110,000 sq. ft. Stark Sports Performance Center …
Clever Creative Gives Iconic Times Square LED Board An Arcade Games Theme February 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes Tuning the creative to the display canvas seems like a pretty obvious strategy, but we’ve all seen examples in which of creative running on unconventional displays that didn’t factor in things like gaps and odd shapes. Here, happily, is a great example of creative that specifically works with the challenge presented by a spectacular, high-profile …
ISE’s Shift To May Creates Show Partnership With Global IOT Event February 1, 2022 by Dave Haynes Integrated Systems Europe’s COVID-forced shift from this week in Barcelona (sigh) to mid-May opened up an opportunity to partner with another significant going on at the same time – focused on Internet of Things technology and issues. ISE says it is joining forces with IOT Solutions World Congress (IOTSWC), described as “the largest international event …
Japanese 7-Elevens Testing Floating Virtual Screens For Touchless Transactions January 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes On the heels of word that a fast casual restaurant chain in Quebec is testing touchless self-service ordering kiosks comes news of 7-Eleven deploying test units of a touchless payment station in some of its Japanese stores. The program involves six different technology companies, with a division of Toshiba guiding the program. From a Japanese …
Nanolumens, Megapixel VR Partner To Optimize LED Video Wall Visuals, Security January 31, 2022 by Dave Haynes A big fine pitch LED video wall can be driven by nothing more than the same sorts of media players that push content to flat panel displays, but specialized technology tuned to video walls will tend to do a noticeably better job with the final visuals. Video wall processing was something I didn’t pay much …
OOH Giant JCDecaux Posts Records Growth: DOOH Up 74% Last Quarter January 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Invidis for posting on these numbers … The giant French out of home media firm JCDecaux is coming out of what we hope is the end of the pandemic with record revenue numbers, led my massive growth on the digital side of its global business. “Digital Out Of Home (DOOH) grew by …
New Walmart Store Design Builds In Interactive Merchandising Displays January 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes The biggest physical retailer in the world has designed digital displays into its newest take on a store look and feel, with flat panel displays and contextual, triggered messaging part of large form merchandising displays. The tech-centric publication Fast Company got a preview from Walmart of the store design it is testing and tweaking – …
Here’s A Pair Of LED Video Walls That Are Both Inside And Outside A Corporate Space January 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes Hat Tip to Jamie Finnegan of Media Resources, who posted on Linkedin about this project … Putting LED video walls inside corporate lobbies is certainly not new, and the same goes for LED boards outside of office blocks. But here’s a seemingly unique (or at least rare) set-up that sees a flanking pair of interior …
The Age-Old New York-LA Rivalry Starting To Include LED Boards January 27, 2022 by Dave Haynes We generally tend to think of the Times Square district in New York as the home of spectacular LED ad boards in the United States, but the downtown Los Angeles district surrounding the main sports arena and convention center are starting to give the Big Apple a rival. A property owner, Lightstone, has started putting …
