New Nike Flagship In Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall Uses Massive LED Feature Wall September 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes This is a recently opened Nike store at Toronto’s lux-oriented Yorkdale mall, a cavernous two-level space that includes a very large LED feature wall backing a central stairway. The store is a partnership between Nike and the Israeli retail fashion chain Fox-Wizel Ltd, which already operates several sports and beauty stores in Canada. The store …
Global LED Display Sales Have Bounced Back After Big 2020 COVID-era Decline: Omdia September 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes The LED video display market appears to be almost fully recovered from the big activity dip recorded in the middle of 2020, as the pandemic really took hold. The research firm Omdia has kindly put out some snippets from its ongoing industry tracking work, via Linkedin, that suggest the industry saw 17.8% Quarter on Quarter …
Pattison Does Massive Digital OOH Upgrade At Re-Opened Toronto Billy Bishop Airport September 9, 2021 by Dave Haynes Canadians and some Americans who do (or used to do) a lot of business travel into Toronto may be familiar with Billy Bishop Airport – a relatively small airport that sits on an island just off the Lake Ontario shoreline and walking distance into downtown Toronto. It sees a fraction of the passenger traffic of …
Raydiant, Barvanna Partner On Streamed Digital Signage And DOOH Content September 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes The Silicon Valley-area digital signage CMS startup Raydiant has announced a content partnership with another start-up called Barvanna, making streamed sports, entertainment, and trivia content available for businesses, bars, restaurants, hotels, clubs, and public spaces. The Barvanna content will be available as an add-on app with Raydiant’s platform. “As a customer experience platform provider, we’ve …
Podcast: Are Kiosks And Readers Keys To Making Vaccine Passports Viable? September 8, 2021 by Dave Haynes Super-super busy right now and I kinda mostly forgot to get a new podcast episode together for this shortened Labor Day week, but there is a lot of talk out there right now about vaccine passports, so I am re-upping the most current episode, which is all about that. There’s been a lot of talk …
Sony Formally Cancels InfoComm And NAB Plans Next Month, Citing Health Safety Concerns September 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes I think this has been quietly known for some time, but Sony has made it official that it is passing on putting up a stand at InfoComm in Orlando next month – citing health safety concerns. It will also skip the broadcast-focused NAB Show in October. Sony normally has a very large, front-row, visible as …
London’s 3rockAR Launches Pop-Up, AR-Driven “Magic Mirror” Network For UK Malls, Other Venues September 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes A London company focused on augmented reality applications and content has launched what it calls the world’s first AR-enabled digital out-of-home advertising network. The company says it has access to more than 80 sites in the UK – presumably malls and mass transit hubs – to put up a large-format screen and camera system that …
Moment Factory Pulling Together Much-Needed Visual Experiences For Newark’s Int’l Airport September 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes Tech vendors who have relationships with the Montreal creative technology shop Moment Factory should know the firm is pulling together a new project that involves new visual experiences at the airport in Newark, New Jersey – one of the big three airports serving New York City. The newspaper Le Journal de Montreal reports: Moment Factory …
Quite Possibly The Best LED Lobby Install Done To Date September 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes More and more property owners or anchor tenants for office towers are using vast LED video walls to make a statement in their lobbies, but this is an interesting twist on that approach – dealing with a wide but relatively shallow lobby depth by extending the LED displays across the ceiling. This is in Madrid …
Among The Endless Drip-Drip Of Bad Product Imagery That Comes In, This May Be The Worst September 7, 2021 by Dave Haynes Lots of story and product pitches come in with images that make me wonder if they’re real or Photoshop’d, but at least the vast majority of them involve some effort to make the product and scene appear realistic. And then there’s this one that came in from a Shenzhen manufacturer overnight. Showing flat panel displays …
