Amazon Opens Screen-Filled Bricks And Mortar “Parapharmacy” Store In Milan February 25, 2025 by Dave Haynes Online shopping and fulfillment giant Amazon has opened its first bricks and mortar store in Italy – a health and beauty store in Milan’s city centre filled with screens. The Amazon Parafarmacia Beauty store opened Feb. 12th, featuring a “curated” selection of beauty and personal care products from brands including Eucerin, La Roche-Posay, Vichy, Avène, …
Attention Up And Positive Impacts Clear For Poster Marketing Around And In Groceries: German OOH Research February 25, 2025 by Dave Haynes As spotted in invidis … Research by the German Outdoor Advertising Association (FAW) suggests digital screens used around and in supermarkets has just about doubled in recent years, and that overall, attention to posters at the points of shopping decisions and sales are now very high. FAW is short for a very long, involved German …
Film Production Shop Technicolor, PRN’s Old Owner, In Deep Peril Of Shutting Doors February 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes The big media production services company that at one point was active in digital signage and early-days retail media via PRN appears to be in financial hole so deep that it may not be able to escape. The French firm Technicolor Group has in recent days been alerting customers and employees that it is in …
UK AV/IT Integrator SmartComm Enters Insolvency Process February 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes The British online publication Inavate is reporting this morning that UK systems integrator SmartComm has gone into administration, and paperwork has been filed to wind up the company. In the UK, when a company goes into administration, it has entered a legal process that involves a licensed insolvency practitioner, and the outcome can be things …
Omdia’s ISE 2025 Pro Display Recap Suggests, Among Many Things, The Race To Finest LED Pixel Pitch Has Stalled February 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes The research firm Omdia has pushed out a recap of the pro display side of ISE 2025, which was run earlier this month in Barcelona. The company, which like other credible research firms sends analysts around the halls to meet with manufacturers, offers up the recap as a free read, but you have to register. …
Daktronics Says New Billboard Line Reduces Power Needs By As Much As 20% February 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes Sustainability is a much bigger issue for digital signage and DOOH network operators in Europe than it is across the water, especially in the U.S. But it is not an entirely foreign concept, though reducing energy footprints may have more to do with the bottom line than the fate of the planet. South Dakota manufacturer Daktronics, …
Intuitive AI Deploys First Screen-Driven Trash Sorter At Boston Logan February 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes The podcast now up on Sixteen:Nine is about a Vancouver company called Intuitive AI that blends image recognition with digital signage and DOOH to come up with a recycling assistant for trash bins in busy public spaces. The company already has a lot of deployments, and now has one operating at Boston’s Logan International Airport …
Lovely Interactive Video Wall Uses AI To Bring Nature Center Visitors’ Colored Butterflies To Life February 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes This is one of the nicer interactive video walls I’ve come across through the years – an art piece that allows people to create and color their own butterflies, scan them, have AI optimize them, and then see them fluttering around a display. Origins of Imagination is a permanent interactive artwork developed by London-based artist …
The Biggest QSR Chain In The World Doesn’t Do Burgers Or Lattes. It Serves Bubble Tea. February 21, 2025 by Dave Haynes McDonald’s, Starbucks or Subway are the biggest QSR chains in the world, right? Nope. The Chinese ice cream and bubble tea chain Mixue has overtaken those fast food operators in terms of the number of stores worldwide, according to the Asian data service provider Momentum Works. Sixteen:Nine’s German language content partner invidis came across data …
Captivate, Videri Partner On Sleek Display Canvases For Common Spaces In Office Towers February 20, 2025 by Dave Haynes More than 25 years ago now, I left the daily newspaper business because it was pretty clear what the Internet would do to it, and I puzzled the hell out of colleagues by saying I was going to work for a start-up that puts screens in elevators that ran news interspersed with paid advertising. At …
