Skin Care Firm Dermalogica Adds Lift And Learn To In-Store Digital December 12, 2016 by Super User The UK skin care brand Dermalogica has streamlined a range of digital displays in its retail locations – putting them on a network and adding new smart signage displays to drive promotions and build up its “Hero” products. The company has started rolling out a solution in stores, put together by systems integrator Solutions AV, that uses IAdea …
Air Transat, Moment Factory Team Up On Experiential Kiosks At Montreal’s Main Airport December 9, 2016 by Super User Montreal’s Moment Factory, the experiential media agency, is involved with charter vacations air carrier Air Transat, also based in Montreal, on a new permanent installation interactive installation at that city’s main airport. It’s set up in Espace Air Transat – what I assume are the dedicated departure lounges for the vacation-centric carrier at Montréal–Trudeau Airport’s new international terminal. …
Aussie Beauty Retailer MECCA Brands Opening “Connected” Stores December 9, 2016 by Super User The Australian beauty retailer MECCA Brands has started opening what it has dubbed “connected” store – loaded with digital displays intended to connect with customers. A shop at Myer Melbourne was the first to get a set-up that includes a total of six 2×1 55? portrait columns, plus a giant 65? single landscape display. There is also …
In Digital Signage, Bigger Is Not Always The Answer December 9, 2016 by sixteenninewpadmin Guest Post: Jørn Olsen, Pronto TV I used to have an old wooden boat that I would spend a lot of time maintaining and polishing every autumn, to be ready for the next summer. Every year, my “boat-neighbors” swapped their boats to something a little bigger than last season. Instead of changing my boat every year, …
TransitScreen Gets Into Outdoor Ad Business, Sorta, With New Fenway Billboard December 8, 2016 by Super User The guys at Washington, DC-based TransitScreen are trying out a very different spin on its community data displays – partnering on a large LED billboard in the shadows of Boston’s famed Fenway Park baseball stadium. The board on Lansdowne Street shows information on subway, commuter rail, and bus departure times near Fenway, along with what’s …
DSE 2017 Same Week As Bar, Retail And Pizza (Yup, Pizza) Trade Shows December 8, 2016 by Super User It’s almost always been the case that the week Digital Signage Expo is on in Las Vegas is generally a pretty quiet week around the convention center and the city. Not in 2017. The same week that DSE is on, the convention center is also hosting the big Nightclub and Bar Show, which has a …
10 Questions To Ask When Buying Digital Signage Software December 8, 2016 by Bryan Crotaz Guest Post: Trey Hicks, Visix So, your organization is considering a digital signage system, and you’ve been tasked with gathering info. Where to start? It’s a massive market and getting bigger all the time. Just typing in the term “digital signage” into Google results in 14 million results, and there are an awful lot of …
Shuttle Debuts Pair Of Sub-$170 4K Android Digital Signage Players December 8, 2016 by Super User The small PC computer maker Shuttle has announced a nice little pair of sub-$170 ARM-based media players aimed at the digital signage market – 4K-capable and one with built-in Power over Ethernet support. The set top box-sized units are fanless and ship with Android 5.1 installed. they also come with Shuttle’s own software, DS Creator 2.0. …
NanoLumens Ready To Assert Patents, Go After Makers Of “Cheap Imitations” December 7, 2016 by Super User When I had a long podcast chat with Rick Cope at InfoComm back in June, the founder and CEO of Nanolumens made it very clear he was about to go to legal war with a number of (mostly or all) Chinese manufacturers who were marketing LED display products that seem to borrow on Nano’s flexible …
Packed Toronto DSE Mixer December 7, 2016 by Super User Uber-Train-Train-Uber got me to and from Toronto yesterday to catch the Digital Signage Expo DSE Huddle mixer held at the Hard Rock Cafe off Yonge Dundas Square. DSE Show Director Andrea Varrone was up from Atlanta to host the event and she said about 100 people registered. Not all of them showed, but there was …