Dutch LED Firm Marketing Drop Ceiling Decor Bundle September 26, 2019 by Super User The Dutch LED display company LedGo has tried to differentiate itself from the vast horde of companies selling visual display solutions by focusing on non-traditional stuff like LED floors and ceilings. They pushed out an email this morning that caught my eye for a couple of reasons: 1 – Prices are coming way down on …
McKinsey Opening Test Lab Store In Mall Of America September 26, 2019 by Super User The huge management consultant firm McKinsey & Company is opening a retail test lab store tomorrow that’s designed to try out and analyze different technologies touted to transform shopping experiences. The store – called Modern Retail Collective – opens Friday at the vast Mall of America, in suburban Minneapolis. McKinsey says this differs from other …
And Now We Have Nonsense Research On “Procurement Market Intelligence” September 26, 2019 by Super User Following the search term “digital signage” on Google Alerts means getting a daily email with headlines and links to endless forecasts from Indian research factories about the state and prospects for the industry. I ignore them because they’re almost all nonsense – data borrowed or dreamed up by analysts who the next day will be …
WPP Founder Martin Sorrell Added To DPAA Summit Speaker Line-Up September 25, 2019 by Super User This is a pretty big get for the DPAA’s annual Video Everywhere event next month – Sir Martin Sorrell, the British businessman who founded and for many years ran WPP plc, the world’s largest advertising, media and marketing company. He will be a headline speaker at the Oct. 15 event in New York. Sorrell kinda …
LinkNYC Smart City Kiosks Mysteriously “Dressed” As Teletubbies September 25, 2019 by Super User From Gothamist, as flagged by a reader … Some enterprising soul with a twisted sense of humor has “dressed” several LinkNYC smart city kiosks in Brooklyn to look like Teletubbies. Not sure why. Perhaps they were inspired by this mall campaign for Pokemons in the UK. The media company that operates LinkNYC says it is …
AUO CEO Paul Peng On How His Display Giant Plays In Digital Signage September 25, 2019 by Super User I was in Taiwan recently for a trade show called Touch Taiwan, and managed to grab 20 minutes with Paul Peng, the Chairman and CEO of display manufacturing giant AU Optronics. AUO is based in Taiwan, with its main office about an hour south of Taipei in the manufacturing city of Hsinchu. The company has …
North America’s Cinema Giants Team Up On Digital Signage Management September 25, 2019 by Super User Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media, whose parent company is the dominant cinema chain in Canada, has done a deal to manage the digital signage network for AMC Theatres, which is the biggest cinema operator in the US and, I think, the world. Cineplex has announced its selection “to manage and enhance AMC’s digital network at approximately …
DSCC Research Shows Asian Panel-Makers Had Tough Couple Of Quarters September 23, 2019 by Super User Research firm DSCC’s Quarterly Display Supply Chain Financial Health Report suggests the major display panel makers in China, Korea and Taiwan are in the midst of a rough patch, with nine of the 13 panel makers tracked having year to year revenue declines. The industry tracking also suggests many of the companies recorded losses in the …
This LED Pivots And Shape-Shifts Using Industrial Robotics September 23, 2019 by Super User This is a pivoting LED display that would go nicely in something like an airport or exhibition/convention hall, with a set of five blades that can link up as one large face or break out and pivot separately. The manufacturer is PJ Link, and this was/is at LED China, which I think was last week …
Chinese LED Maker Attaches Transparent LED To Sliding Glass Shop Doors September 23, 2019 by Super User I’ve seen projection on sliding glass doors, but this transparent mesh LED that’s attached in some way to a pair of glass sliders that serve as an entry to a shop, or something, in China. A sensor triggers the doors to open and content to change as someone approaches and passes through. This is from …
