Quividi Adds AI-Driven Motor Vehicle Counting, Classification, To DOOH Audience Measurement Toolset September 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes The longtime audience measurement firm Quividi, which has been doing computer vision long before that name grew common, has added vehicle detection and classification to its feature set – with the intent of helping more accurately characterize motorist audiences for roadside digital OOH networks. Interestingly, and I am not entirely sure why, the French firm …
New Reflect Retail Study Reveals Big Appetite In US For Bringing Online Shopping Features To Physical Stores September 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Dallas CMS software firm Reflect has pushed out the executive summary of findings generated from a recent survey of 1,600 Americans on their preferences for shopping and the role of technology coming out of this pandemic. The national study – called In-Store Shopping: Hiccups & Hangups of 2021 – showed a significant thirst for …
AVIXA CEO Dave Labuskes On InfoComm’s Prospects And How Digital Signage Fits With His Organization September 22, 2021 by Dave Haynes There is a whole pile of back seat driving happening lately in the pro AV and digital signage communities about how to run a trade show in the COVID-19 era, and much of the focus has squarely been on Dave Labuskes, the CEO of AVIXA, which runs InfoComm and co-owns the even larger trade show …
Time’s Running Out – Get Your Entries In For The 2022 Global Digital Signage Awards! September 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes A last reminder that vendors, service providers and end-users like network operators and agencies have a little more than a week left to pull together submissions for the 2022 edition of the global Digital Signage Awards, which are backed, in part, by Sixteen:Nine. As I have noted a number of times, a little bit of …
Dutch Artist Does Cascade Of LCD Screens To Create Very Different Digital Waterfall September 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes There have been many, many digital waterfalls developed and deployed in recent years as LED video walls grew increasingly commonplace, but here’s one that took an entirely different approach. This is an amalgam of waterfalls videos on a set of LCD displays stacked and somewhat scattered into what looks kinda sorta like a cascading waterfall …
BroadSign Forms Consortium To Chase In-Retail Software And Ad Opportunities September 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes Something of a consortium of familiar vendors and service providers in the digital signage sector have linked up to go after the retail market with a model that could include monetization through third-party and endemic advertising. Broadsign has announced what it calls a “joint effort” with visual solutions company Gable, managed network services and solutions …
LG Reseller Tests Transparent LED Window Film In Maine C-Store September 21, 2021 by Dave Haynes I haven’t seen that many examples yet of LG’s transparent LED window film in the wild, so I was intrigued to learn how a C-store was using the technology as a kind of digital window cling. The retail-focused technology integration firm Abierto Networks tested the display giant’s 14mm pixel pitch film was used at a …
CEDIA Attendance Clobbered By COVID September 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes The numbers for the recent home AV/residential tech trade show CEDIA Expo are in, and both attendee and exhibitor numbers were utterly clobbered. The last normal times version of the show, in 2019, attracted almost 20,000 attendees and 500 exhibitors, when it was held in Denver two years ago. The 2021 show was held at …
New Urban Format For Vienna Ikea Has 100+ Digital Signage Screens September 20, 2021 by Dave Haynes The German-language consultancy and publisher Invidis has an interesting post up today that takes an extensive look inside a new urban concept Ikea store in Vienna, Austria. While most people who know Ikea know about giant parking lots and loading areas for flat-packed furniture, but this one is an inner city setting where parking is …
OpenEye Mixer One Highlight From Upcoming NY Digital Signage Week September 17, 2021 by Dave Haynes New York Digital Signage Week is coming up next month in October, and one of the events being touted is a mixer put on by OpenEye Global – under the banner of Experience United Social Club (or XUSC). Says the NJ-based consulting firm: On October 13th, we will host a XUSC event called “The Night …
