The New Guinness Brewing Floor Experience In Dublin Looks Amazing October 18, 2017 by Super User Via Retail Design Blog Diageo hired the creative shop Love to design a new brewing floor experience at the storehouse of the famed Guinness brewery in Dublin, Ireland. The tasting at the end is worth the trip alone, but the new visitor experience looks pretty amazing, using video walls, display clusters and some interactive tablet …
Christie Partners With MVP, Times Square On Interactive Digital OOH Network In Cinema October 18, 2017 by Super User The digital OOH media wing of projector and display manufacturer Christie – Christie Experiential Network (CEN) – has announced a partnership with a pair of interactive and field marketing companies to create what it touts as the largest interactive digital OOH network in North America. The interactive part is the major-major qualifier on that statement, …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Yahav Ran, Synect Media October 18, 2017 by Super User When I get asked about digital signage installations that I think really have it together, I tend to talk about Microsoft’s retail stores, and more recently, the crazy one by many 100s video wall at the check-in counters at Orlando’s airport. Turns out both projects were pulled together by Synect Media, a Seattle-area agency that …
200,000 Podcast Downloads, And Counting! October 17, 2017 by Super User Been a while since I looked at stats, and happy to see 16:9 Podcasts is now past 200,000 downloads spread across 77 episodes. That’s probably nothing by the standards of big, big podcasts, but a lot more than I expected. So thanks for downloading and listening. It’s a lot of fun having these chats. Coming …
UK Firm Touts The Fairest Of All Magic Mirrors October 17, 2017 by Super User Probably like most people, I tend to think a mirror is a mirror, and more particularly as a digital signage guy, I assumed a mirror display is just a display with any old mirror glass bonded to the face of the LCD. Well, yes and no. Turns out there’s a lot to mirrors. A UK …
US Supreme Court Denies Appeal By Anti-Billboard Non-Profit October 16, 2017 by Super User A four-year legal fight over digital billboards that went all the way to the US Supreme Court ended today, with that country’s highest court denying an appeal by the non-profit group Scenic America, which fights what it considers billboard blight. Scenic America doesn’t have a statement out, as yet, but the Outdoor Advertising Association of …
Amazing 3D LED, Without Any Moving Parts October 16, 2017 by Super User There are a bunch of great observations, pro and con, on this post about the Coca-Cola mechanical LED spectacular in Times Square – with some noting that the fact that people are talking about it means it has had the desired effect, while others have said it must be a technical nightmare to manage, and …
STRATACACHE Launches Latin-American Business Unit In Mexico City October 14, 2017 by Super User STRATACACHE has opened up a new business unit, based in Mexico City, that’s focused on servicing the Latin American (LATAM) and Caribbean markets. STRATA LATAM is more than just a remote sales office – with the unit having its own GM and VP Business Development for the region. Says a press release: Principal segments of focus – under …
Toronto LED Twin Ad Boards Get Implant To Make One Giant Display October 13, 2017 by Super User The big digital media tower outside of Toronto Eaton Centre is getting a little cosmetic work done – an implant, basically – to make it the largest digital OOH display in Canada. The tower outside the downtown shopping mall and adjacent to Yonge Dundas Square (a more modest version of Times Square) has a pair …
Outcome Health Starts Internal Review, Strengthens Policies, In Wake Of WSJ Report October 13, 2017 by Super User In the wake of a Wall Street Journal report Tuesday suggesting Outcome Health was engaging in misleading advertising practices, the high-flying Chicago digital OOH media firm has posted a statement on its website that doesn’t address specific allegations, but instead lays out how it “appropriately” operates and outlines steps to strengthen its policies and review …
