Now Ride-Hailing Cars Have Ad Screens September 14, 2015 by Super User Entrepreneurs have for many years now tried putting screens in taxis as a targeted advertising medium – with results best described as mixed. I think we’ve all slid into a taxi somewhere, got ourselves settled, and then quickly located the mute button so that whatever ad was on the screen would stop jabbering at us. …
DSrupted Is Just Two Sleeps Out – A Thank You To Sponsors September 14, 2015 by Super User We’re just two sleeps out from DSrupted now, and at least three of my five speakers are hopping on planes tomorrow to get here – as will a pile of people coming from as far away as Phoenix and Atlanta. We’ve passed last year’s attendance number and, as a result, will have a pretty full house. …
Projects: Rockwell Puts Its Merchandising Screens On Rollers September 11, 2015 by Super User Here’s an interesting digital merchandising set-up I bumped into at my local Canadian Tire store – a big dedicated store within a store zone for the power tool maker Rockwell. What caught my eye were screens on both sides that were set up on roller tracks, so that they could be pulled left or right …
TUFF Subway Film Fest Set To Run On Toronto’s TTC Digital OOH Screens September 10, 2015 by Super User The Toronto International Film Festival will soon take over the cinemas and chic hotels of downtown Toronto, and below the streets, the Toronto Urban Film Festival, aka TUFF, is about to take over screens in the subway system. Described as North America’s largest commuter film festival, TUFF runs some of the world’s best one-minute silent films on PATTISON …
Four Winds Firms Up Speakers, Agenda For Next Month’s Forward Conference September 9, 2015 by Super User I checked in with Four Winds Interactive to ask how things are going with plans for the conference the software company is running next month in the company’s hometown city, Denver. Called Forward – the Digital Experience Conference, the event is designed to educate and inspire people who are grappling with the explosion of digital content and tech out there, and how to apply it …
Industry Vet Halpin Donates Kidney To Help Widowed Mom September 9, 2015 by Super User Via the LA Daily Breeze If you have been in this industry for a while, you’ve learned there are many, many good people … and right up there on that list is Sally Halpin. The display industry veteran selflessly donated a kidney this summer to a widowed mom badly in need of a transplant. As the …
Orange Pi From Shenzhen Undercuts Raspberry Pi Price By Half September 8, 2015 by Super User The busiest post day to day on this blog – by a considerable margin – is one listing the various options to make digital signage projects happen with $35 Raspberry Pi single board computers. So I know there is a substantial constituency out there of people who are determined to cut as much as cost …
Signagelive Shifts Vartian TO CMO Gig September 8, 2015 by Super User The UK firm Signagelive has changed the business card on Raffi Vartian, shifting him from Chief Operating Officer to Chief Marketing Officer of the company. R&D and operations are all based near Cambridge, England, so having the head of ops in Chicago – where Vartian lives – didn’t make a whole pile of sense. The recast …
LG Showcases Wavy OLED Wall, 1 MM OLED Digital Poster September 4, 2015 by Super User LG Display has started showing off a set of OLED display prototypes that will get people who design retail and corporate interiors thinking about the possibilities. An LG press release suggests its CEO and President, Dr. Sang Beom Han, talked a lot about OLED in his opening keynote speech at IFA 2015 in Berlin, Dr. Han, says …
Ticking All The DSrupted Boxes September 3, 2015 by Super User We’re now LESS than two weeks out from DSrupted 2015 in Toronto, and things are SOMEWHAT in control. Just confirmed catering, paid the AV guys and added a new stack of badges to what’s already been sorted and given attached lanyards. We’ve even got finished badges bundled in 10-packs and hanging up so they don’t …
