Creative Realities Merges With Reflect Systems; Blended Offer To Run Under CRI November 15, 2021 by Dave Haynes Creative Realities has completed a merger deal with Reflect Systems that sees the combined company operating going forward as Creative Realities, or CRI for short. Rick Mills, CEO of Louisville-based CRI, will be CEO for the combined company. Lee Summers, the CEO of Reflect, will stick around to run the combined company’s AdTech initiatives, which …
Check Out This Super-Nice, Very Different Digital Lobby Experience At Uber’s HQ (with Video) November 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is super-nice and wonderfully different from a lot of the digital display work that’s going into big company HQ buildings – a two-storey digital art experience in the lobby of Uber’s new head office in the Mission Bay district of San Francisco. The ride-sharing giant hired the Brooklyn-based design firm Hush Studios, and used Electrosonic …
ISE Says 700+ Exhibitors Taking Stands in Early February, So Far, Inc. “Bellwether” Tech Brands November 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes An encouraging note about things returning to business norms – Integrated Systems Europe reports more than 700 exhibitors set to show their pots and pans in Barcelona in less than three months. “It is very heartening to see that globally, events and exhibitions are returning to strength,” says Mike Blackman, Managing Director of Integrated Systems …
Rise Vision Gets Hyperlocal With High School Sports Scores In U.S. November 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes Sports scores have been a part of digital signage – the dreaded tickers along the bottom of layouts and the much better full-screen presentations. But almost all of what’s shown on digital signage screens comes from pro sports or top tier amateur competitions, like college basketball. The CMS software firm Rise Vision has entered an …
Digital Signage Federation Starts Vote For New and Renewed Board Members November 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Federation is in the process of electing new board members, with a very good crowd of candidates for the five open positions. The people running for the spots are: Frank Pisano of BrightSign, who is seeking a second term; Kym Frank of Intermx (previously of Geopath); Tony Green of Snap Install; Michael …
Virtual Pandas Loom Over Busy Chengdu Street Corner November 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a nice “forced perspective” aka “anamorphic illusion” creative piece done on a wraparound 90-degree corner LED billboard in Chengdu, China. It involves pandas, as you can see, but I’ve no idea what’s being marketed here. This might just be Wow Factor and a piece that keeps people looking as a string of booked …
Finn Telecoms Retailer Greets Customers With OLED Display Canopy November 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes Via Invidis The Finnish telecommunications group Elisa has a store in Helsinki’s Mall of Tripla, quite close to its headquarters building. The shop is interesting, reports my friends at the German language publisher invidis, because it is using LG’s wallpaper-thin, flexible OLED displays as a canopy above shoppers as they walk in. Next to an …
Embed Signage Ties Software Sales To Carbon Reduction Tree-Planting Initiatives In UK November 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes Tree-planting programs developed by businesses as environmental initiatives have been around for some time, but I don’t think I have seen one developed for a digital signage company that ties the program directly with its commercial activity. UK-based digital signage software company embed signage, has put in place a “Climate Positive” action plan that sees …
Florian Rotberg of Invidis Details The State Of Digital Signage In EU, Middle East, And Rise Of Green Signage November 10, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Munich-based digital signage consultancy invidis has been doing an annual yearbook publication for the past decade that is something of an industry bible for the European and Middle Eastern markets, and with each annual edition it gets a little more detailed and broader in its scope. The company does a German version and another …
No Crying For Boohoo As Its LED-filled Offices Win Big UK AV Award November 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes The UK-based publication AV Magazine does a big awards evening – black tie and the whole nine yards – every year in London, and the 2021 version was the other night. Much of what is handed out is AV stuff that doesn’t have a whole bunch to do with digital signage – think of when …
