Don’t Take Shots At The Messenger August 18, 2017 by Super User I got a note in the comments box last night from a Chinese company that suggested another Chinese competitor was misrepresenting itself as the vendor behind an interesting digital signage project I’d written up recently. The writer of the note went VERY quickly from pointing that out to threatening to send company’s lawyers after me: …
Will US And Canadian Auto Dealers Follow European Lead And Go Small And Digital? August 17, 2017 by Super User Time will tell, but you’ve got to think in North America’s larger cities – where in many cases commercial property costs are steep – that some auto dealers will start following the lead of European automakers who are shifting from large footprint dealerships to small retail settings that lean heavily on digital. I wrote recently …
Projects: Chicago’s United Center Opens Highly Interactive Fan Store August 17, 2017 by Super User The new 10,000 sq. ft. fan store store at Chicago’s United Center – home to the NBA Bulls and NHL Blackhawks – includes several digital interactive features designed to immerse people in the culture and excitement of the teams. The Madhouse Team Store, in the United Center’s new east expansion area, is there to sell high …
OAAA Says U.S. Out Of Home Revenues Up 1% For Year; Digital OOH Is Main Driver August 16, 2017 by Super User The Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) says out of home advertising revenue in the U.S. rose 1.5 percent in the second quarter of 2017 compared to the previous year, accounting for $2.38 billion. Year-to-date for 2017, the OOH industry is up 1.0 percent, and outperformed all traditional local media, which was down the first …
Projects: Transparent Mesh LED Fence Lines Front Of Dubai Mall Aquarium August 16, 2017 by Super User The aquarium attraction at the huge Dubai Mall recently lit up a massive OLED video wall – which looks amazing. A bit lost in the shuffle was a very large transparent LED mesh fence than runs along the base of the front of the big fish tank, below that huge OLED wall. Transparent mesh LED …
Projects: Projection-Mapped Video Table Powerfully Illustrates Nazi Looting August 16, 2017 by Super User This is a 3D projection-mapped video table that illustrates the expropriation of Jewish property during the Third Reich in Berlin, the centerpiece of an exhibit at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York. The Stolen Heart Video Map is the feature element of “Stolen Heart: The Theft of Jewish Property in Berlin’s Historic Center, 1933–1945.” The …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Curt Thornton, Provision August 16, 2017 by Super User Hologram is up there with artificial intelligence as one of the most abused terms in tech these days – with all kinds of stuff being labelled as holograms when they’re nothing more than reflections or projections. Provision has been marketing what it calls 3D holographic media for a bunch of years, and while purists might …
Do Some Smart Cities Operators Need To Get Smarter Operators? August 15, 2017 by Super User As Amscreen’s Simon Sugar points out in the tweet below, it’s not like the people behind the smart cities digital OOH interactive screens in the UK didn’t get clues from a sister installation in New York. The InLinkUK interactive stations that are replacing some phone booths around London can easily, it seems, be hijacked to …
Branded Cities Acquires Clear Channel Outdoor Canada August 15, 2017 by Super User Phoenix-based Branded Cities Network has acquired Clear Channel Outdoor’s 50.001% interest in Clear Channel Outdoor Canada, making the company the 100% owner of the Canadian entity and adding to Branded Cities’ North American footprint. This is very familiar territory for Branded Cities’ Chairman and CEO Steve Ellman, who founded the Canadian company and had US-based …
Here’s Who’s All Behind Coca-Cola’s Giant New Robotic LED Board In NYC August 15, 2017 by Super User More information is dribbling out about that giant robotic 3D LED board Coca-Cola switched on last week in Times Square. The vendor list is long, and the one most familiar to the digital signage community is Convergent, which is listed as doing Technology Design and Implementation, Content Management and Monitoring Services. If I was expressly in …
