Orlando Airport Investing Big On Passenger-Facing Digital Signage August 9, 2016 by Super User Orlando International Airport continues to invest heavily in digital displays to improve the look and experience. The Orlando Sentinel has a story up about a $146 million makeover underway, and targeted to be complete by late next year, that will include a band of tiled displays behind the ticket counters at the departures level. The …
Two Keys To Creating Unforgettable Customer Experiences, In Any Physical Environment August 5, 2016 by Michal Lisewski Guest Post: Jeff Dumo, Array Interactive For the last seven years, my company has focused on creating digital experiences within physical environments to connect people and brands. In each case, custom content was powered by digital signage display systems, video walls, gestural systems, reactive and interactive installations, and other digital touch points. Some have been …
Astral OOH’s Toronto Pearson Deal Means Canadian Airport Ad Dominance August 4, 2016 by Super User Montreal-based Astral Out-of-home has won the ad concession for Toronto’s Pearson International Airport, and with that now has ad rights in Canada’s three busiest airports and largest markets. Astral’s airport media business, owned by the communications conglomerate Bell Media, already has Montreal and Vancouver, as well as Ottawa and Halifax. Pearson is the biggie, though, …
And Now There Are Digital Signage Pokémon Templates August 3, 2016 by Super User The whole Pokémon Go thing escapes me, but I’m guessing there are countless baby boomers who aren’t quite seeing the thrill of running around catching imaginary cartoon characters on a phone. But we’re not the market, and it’s clearly taken off among a younger crowd. Mark McDermott from Screen.Cloud provided a useful post this morning …
Digital Signage Gets Hosed Down August 3, 2016 by Super User Whether this is better termed a kiosk than digital signage could be debated endlessly, but what’s more interesting here is how a company has figured out a way to make projected capacitive touchscreen technology to work reliably in the crazily harsh environment of a car wash. Cleaning equipment manufacturer Nilfisk has developed with touch overlay maker …
How Local Businesses Can Use Digital Signage To Attract Pokémon Go Fans August 3, 2016 by Niel Rieger Guest Post: Mark McDermott, ScreenCloud If you were ever a fan of Pokémon as a kid or teenager, you’ll know about Pokémon Go, a new app developed by Niantic. Pokémon Go creates an augmented reality experience (something virtual appearing in the real world), to allow you to chase Pokémon characters all over town, to lure …
ComQi Integrates Panasonic’s Light ID Smartphone Tech August 3, 2016 by Super User Panasonic and ComQi have worked out a partnership to market technology that connects smartphones with digital signage displays, using encoded light signals embedded in the screens. Panasonic’s Light ID technology works a bit like QR codes or bar codes, in that consumers who have an app loaded in their phones can easily pull down information that …
Sixteen:Nine Podcasts: Florian Rotberg, Invidis August 3, 2016 by Super User This week I’m speaking with Florian Rotberg, the managing director at the Munich-based digital signage consulting and events firm Invidis. Florian talks about the background of his company, and his impressions of the global digital signage market. Rotberg goes into detail about the differences between the North American and European/EMEA market, and the challenges American and …
Projects: NanoLumens’ 1.8 mm LED Supplants LCD Wall For DIRTT August 2, 2016 by Super User There’s nothing about this installation that’s going to set hearts racing, but it’s a vivid example of how direct view LED is starting to supplant LCD when it comes to video walls. Calgary-based DIRTT Environmental Solutions, which makes pre-fabricated workplace interiors, has switched out the 2×4 LCD video wall matrix that was in the lobby of its …
Hackers Take Over Digital Signage, Audio At Vietnam Airports August 1, 2016 by Super User When digital signage systems get hacked, the perpetrators tend to go to the 12-year-old psyches and they replaced marketing messages with naughty videos. But a cyber attack went in a very different, highly political direction last week in Vietnam – when hackers posted political messages on the digital signage displays at Vietnam’s two largest airports, as well …
