Iconic Philly Department Store Building Adds Gorgeous LED Digital Entry Canopy July 30, 2019 by Super User Love this – the main entry to an iconic old department store building in Philadelphia was updated with a digital canopy and flanking displays, and now runs gorgeous custom creative. The former Lit Brothers Department Store was a cultural landmark that operated for nearly a century in Philly before closing its doors. Now renovated, revitalized, and …
Adobe Showing Transparent Retail Display Hardware Concept At SIGGRAPH; And We’re Not Sure Why July 29, 2019 by Super User Creative software giant Adobe continues to dabble in digital signage – first with its own Screens management software and now with display technology. The company will be at the SIGGRAPH gaming tech conference this week in LA showing off some skunkworks R&D tech that looks like transparent LCD and OLED screens got together overnight at …
Who Wants To Talk? July 25, 2019 by Super User I’ve had three podcast interviews deferred this week for various reasons, so if I have one up next week, it has to happen soon. There’s a running idea list I keep of people I want to talk to, but I am always open to suggestions of new interview subjects. Most typically, the podcasts are with …
McDonald’s Interrupting Full Digital Menuboards To Run Lion King Promos July 25, 2019 by Super User Hat Tip @BradParler for tweeting on this … This seems like a really bad idea – running an interstitial-style ad for a new movie promo that completely takes over the digital menus at a McDonald’s somewhere in the U.S. Presumably, given it is an expensive spot and McDonald’s has a Happy Meal tie-in with the …
Canada’s Tim Hortons Coffee Chain Tests Digital-Rich Upmarket Cafe July 24, 2019 by Super User I am not sure what the double-double crowd (Canadians will know what I mean) will think of a new Tim Hortons location opening up in Toronto’s financial district tomorrow. The Tim Hortons 130 King will be the company’s “first-ever innovation café.” It will have nitro-infused cold brew coffee, americanos, lattes, cappuccinos, flat whites, cortados, macchiatos and all …
Mike Kilian On The Opportunities And Challenges Of Workplace Digital Signage July 24, 2019 by Super User Just about anyone involved on the sales or management side of digital signage these days knows that workplace communications has pretty quickly grown into one of the most active and interesting verticals. With QSRs, the other hot vertical, you’re doing menus and digital promo posters. In the workplace, all kinds of interesting things are possible, …
Broadsign Gets Toehold In China With New Media Network Deal July 23, 2019 by Super User Montreal’s Broadsign has secured its first toehold into the Chinese digital out of home media market, winning a deal to be the CMS software platform for Oriental Sunrise Media Group. The deal is just a few licenses, for now, but one of the active screens run by the company is also one of Asia’s largest digital displays …
Planar Starts Marketing 55-Inch LCD Line With Hair-Width Bezels July 23, 2019 by Super User Planar has started making noise about what the display manufacturer says are screens that have the industry’s skinniest bezels. Planar and parent company Leyard says two new 55-inch models in the VM Series have a 0.88mm tiled bezel width. By that, I think that means two edges butted together still result in a seam that …
Abu Dhabi Court Uses Screens To Make Proceedings Almost Totally Digital July 23, 2019 by Super User This probably doesn’t fall into the digital signage bucket, and is much more of an AV job, but it is an interesting application of screens in a workplace. The Abu Dhabi Global Market Courts (ADGM) in guess where is entirely digital – with witnesses, lawyers and plaintiffs able to participate in courtroom proceedings from anywhere, …
OAAA Names IAB Exec To Head OOH Media Trade Body July 22, 2019 by Super User The Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) has named Anna Bager, Executive Vice President of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), as its new President & CEO. Bager’s takes over in mid-September from Nancy Fletcher, who ran the organization for 29 years, and announced earlier this year she was retiring. Says the OAAA: Bager …
