In Digital Signage, Old Can Be New Again … Apparently February 1, 2016 by Super User It was about a year ago at some trade show that I walked by a vendor booth that was trumpeting how lifting an item off a shelf would trigger content on a screen. And wasn’t that amazing!!! Well, it was kinda neat when I saw it for the first time eight or nine years earlier, …
Preset Group DSE Mixer Now Sold Out February 1, 2016 by Super User It’s six weeks tomorrow to the annual Preset Group DSE Mixer, but as of 9:01 this morning the general admission tickets were sold out. We will be hosting as many as 400 people at the annual networking event, on the eve of the trade show floor opening in Las Vegas. If you did not bag a ticket, …
Buck A Month Gets Digital Signage Operators Peace Of Mind January 29, 2016 by Jeff Dumo GUEST POST: Charles Regula, VIA Technologies Would you spend a buck a month more to buy into some peace of mind for your digital signage network? Sure you would … if you thought about it that way. But when it comes to sourcing devices for signage networks, most of the focus goes squarely to the …
Projects: Printer Duggal Drives Digital-Centric Audible Holiday Party January 28, 2016 by Super User Most print companies, big and small, have struggled to transition from traditional to digital, but New York-based Duggal is a good example of one that is doing a lot more than just converting lightboxes to LCD digital posters. Consider the project Duggal just did with Audible, the audio book company owned by Amazon. The holiday party …
Projects: Risotto Ball Sales Explode After UK Chain Adds Digital Menus January 28, 2016 by Super User So first – there are fast food stops for risotto balls? Second, if you market them using digital menus, sales may get a very nice bump. That’s what happened last fall for London, UK risotto ball specialists, Arancini Brothers, when the chain converted traditional menu posters to digital displays. UK-based digital signage company Eclipse Digital …
Planar Debuts Slick Tablet App To Visualize Video Walls During On-Site Planning January 27, 2016 by Super User Portland-based Planar Systems has released a cool little mobile device application that makes it easy for systems integrators, architects and project teams to work out and visualize how a video wall might look in a specific environment and space. The PlanarView Visualization App allows users to take a photo of an area in, let’s say a building lobby, …
DSE Announces Apex Digital Signage Project Awards Finalists January 27, 2016 by Super User Digital Signage Expo has released its finalists for DSE 2016 APEX Awards, which highlight great project work from the previous year. It looks like a good bunch, and the numbers of entries was reasonably high (I don’t know why more companies don’t “get” the marketing value of awards). Only nine entries for food and bev …
Cineplex Wins Big DQ RFP For US, Canada Digital Menu Boards January 27, 2016 by Super User Cineplex Digital Media, previously known as EK3, has bagged the deal with American Dairy Queen Corporation to be the fast food giant’s “endorsed provider” of in-store digital merchandising solution, aka menu boards, in the US and Canada. The company says it won the deal “after an extensive audit and request for proposal process with over 30 …
New Directory Site For Digital Signage’s Gateway Drug January 27, 2016 by Super User A new online directory, Meeting Room Signs, has gone live, offering an easy, comprehensive tool for connecting buyers and sellers in the fast-emerging digital meeting room sign and digital door sign business. Meeting room signs are what I call the gateway drug for digital signage. I’ve talked to lots of vendors who say this simple, easily …
18 Surprising Statistics About Digital Signage January 27, 2016 by Sean Levy GUEST POST: Irfan Khan, SkyKit As a savvy businessperson, you know that digital signage is a huge, well-established market. You see them everywhere: promoting a new product in the store, advertising deals outside pharmacies—perhaps even touting diaper rash cream, as one sign in my hometown has done for at least the last five years. You’ve …
