Medical Trade Show Booth Comes To Life Using Custom Creative On LED Wall June 3, 2019 by Super User In the past year or so I have really started to notice a lot of big printed graphics make way for LED in trade show booths, and not just for display industry shows. This is the GlaxoSmithKline booth at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, held recently in Chicago. The digital work …
Another Robotic LED Wall Surfaces, But Indoors June 3, 2019 by Super User Another robotic LED wall has surfaced, though this one is much smaller and indoors. It is what I assume is a demo from the Chinese LED display manufacturer PJ Link. You may recall Coca-Cola bankrolled a very ambitious robotics-driven LED in Times Square that, as predicted by people who knew better, ran into reliability issues …
Palms Facelift Includes 272 Foot Tall LED Mesh Wall Facing Strip June 3, 2019 by Super User When I was at DSE a couple of months ago, I had a high room with a Strip and west view, and every morning I’d see off in the distance a huge LED display being tested and perhaps burned in on the side of the Palms resort. That beast has since gone live – a …
First Look: Giant New LED Board At One Times Square In NYC May 31, 2019 by Super User Here’s a shot of the just completed, and by the way massive, LED board at One Times Square – the NYC building that is home on its top to the annual New Year’s Eve ball drop. The sections way up high are 16mm Prismview (Samsung) LED cabinets while the lower and largest face is 8mm. …
How Five Big Business Trends Apply To Digital Signage May 31, 2019 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Derek DeWitt, Visix Back in December, Senior Business Consultant for Microsoft and co-founder of Techincon, Rashan Dixon, wrote an article for Entrepreneur listing five business trends he thought would continue to rise in 2019. Coming up on the midpoint of the year, we can see that his predictions were pretty spot on. In this article, we look …
Digital OOH Start-Up That Puts Screens On Uber Cars Adds $30M Series A Raise May 30, 2019 by Super User A San Francisco start-up called Firefly that puts digital OOH media screens on the tops of rideshare cars has announced a $30 million series A funding round, which is on top of a $21 million round late last year. Firefly offers a supplemental revenue stream to rideshare drivers in return for affixing a hyper-local, geo-fenced digital sign …
Skykit’s Parent Company Announces $6.5M Raise To Speed Growth May 30, 2019 by Super User The company behind the Google Chrome OS-centric digital signage solution Skykit has announced a $6.5 million funding round intended to drive what it calls an aggressive growth plan. Minneapolis-based Agosto Holdings, which describes itself as a cloud services and development company, secured funds from Bridge Bank and SG Credit Partners. Agosto’s core business is selling and supporting Google Cloud products for …
OOH Ad Revenues Up 6% In US In Q1 2019: OAAA May 30, 2019 by Super User Overall out of home (OOH) advertising revenue in the U.S. went up 6% in Q1 2019 compared to the previous year, accounting for $1.78 billion in spending, based on new numbers released by the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA). The numbers don’t distinguish between static and digital, but more and more of …
Intersection Does Deal To Equip LA Metro Line With Smart City-style InfoStations May 29, 2019 by Super User The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) has done a deal with the media and tech company Intersection to install a new messaging and advertising network on the southern portion of the system’s Blue line, as part of rail line improvements. Customers riding the Metro Blue Line between Long Beach and Compton Stations will see …
IoT Weight Sensors On Sydney’s Commuter Rail Cars Show Occupancy Estimates On Platform Screens May 29, 2019 by Super User This is very clever and useful – commuters travelling on the rail network in Sydney, Australia can now make informed decisions on where to stand on a platform for the best shot at getting a seat. The rail authority, Transport for NSW, now has digital signage on platforms that shows which rail cars have seats …
