Screenfeed Adds Top 5 Lists To Subscription Content Services May 10, 2017 by Super User The subscription service Screenfeed has added to the already broad range of aut0-delivered content options for screen networks – announcing a set of soft entertainment items based on Top 5 lists. Called The List, the new feeds include music, box office and other top 5 lists, built in HTML5 and mp4 file formats that support motion graphics …
CIVIQ’s Gleeson On Progress Of LinkNYC Smart City Efforts May 10, 2017 by Super User Here is the first of a two-part Q&A session with digital signage veteran Brad Gleeson, now the Chief Commercial Officer at CIVIQ, on that company’s smart cities efforts in New York and beyond. The completed Q&A was provided to 16:9 by a Samsung agency, but they’re the sorts of questions I’d ask. I thought about it, and …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Lee Summers, CEO of Reflect May 10, 2017 by Super User Lee Summers is only a few months into his job as CEO of Reflect, but neither the industry or the company were unfamiliar when he took over at the company’s Dallas head office earlier this year. In an unusual twist, he’d been on the other side of the table, as one of Reflect’s highest profile …
Projects: AR Brings Marine Life To Ljubljana’s Sidewalks Via DOOH Campaign May 9, 2017 by Super User Here’s a nice use of augmented reality on digital OOH transit shelter screens in Slovenia’s capital city, Ljubljana. Not a new idea, but a good take on the concept. Think this is for a communications company.
Projects: Giant Manila Casino Tests Projection-Mapped Gallery May 9, 2017 by Super User These are preview shots posted on Linkedin by Christie Digital’s Ken Wheatley from the new Okada casino going up on the waterfront in Manila. A glass walkway is using projection mapping once dusk hits to illuminate the window panels on the arched corridor. There is a main show that runs every 30 minutes and other …
What If Managing Digital Signage Content Boiled Down To Sending An Email? May 9, 2017 by Super User Anyone involved in delivering a digital signage solution that’s going to be used, at least a little, by minimally trained and barely engaged local managers and workers knows the “big ask” is to dumb the user experience down as much as possible. If it’s complicated, people won’t use it, they say. And if it’s …
Parisien Joins Quividi As Chief Strategy Officer May 9, 2017 by Super User The French video analytics company Quividi has signed on well-known DOOH technology veteran Daniel Parisien as its Chief Strategy Officer. Parisien will oversee Quividi’s strategy and business development globally and be the chief evangelist for the organization, reporting directly to CEO Ke-Quang Nguyen-Phuc. I don’t normally write about new hires because page view counts clearly indicate few readers …
Cenique Merges Under InReality Brand May 8, 2017 by Super User Hong Kong-based Cenique Infotainment Group has formally merged with ADVIA Partners, a strategic consulting firm and InReality, an Atlanta-based agency, in a company that now rolls up under the brand InReality. I know Cenique as a Charlotte, NC company that has a variety of digital signage software applications, as well as Android signage players, but …
Projects: Curved Video Wall Brings Cathedral’s Famed Frescoes Down To Eye-Level In Italy May 5, 2017 by Super User The museum curator language of this case study is damn near impenetrable, but if you hang in there, you learn that a big, curved video wall is being used in a cathedral in Piacenza, Italy to celebrate the work of a baroque artist known as Guercino. The video wall, which is running on SpinetiX players and …
16:9 Projects Podcast: Movilok On La Fonda Barranco May 5, 2017 by Danica Trapara Movilok won the DSE 2017 Silver APEX Award in the Event Venues & Hospitality category for their work at the hotel La Fonda Barranco. The traditional hotel, in the heart of the very old city of Jerez, is the first certified hotel for the hearing impaired in Spain. Even though the installation is just a …
