Salford Lads Club, the historic recreation club and charity made famous by 1980s indie band, the Smiths, has taken its huge collection of fan messages and photos into the digital age, with help from digital signage consultancy Saturn Visual Solutions. The club has amassed a huge collection of messages, photos…
A catalogue of digital signage blunders has been exposed at Digital Signage Summit Europe, in Munich, Germany last week. The horror show of errors was shown in the second of two keynotes speeches, both jointly given by Florian Rotberg and Stefan Schieker of summit co-organiser invidis consulting. The focus on…
SNA Displays has provided the LED displays for a new digital platform at the northern end of Times Square Media company Big Outdoor's 'The Gateway to Times Square' features two screens offering 300sq metres of digital canvas. They utilise SNA Displays' 8mm EMPIRE Exterior LED display technology. The screens, which…
Digital signage CMS provider 22Miles demoed a conversational AI version of the InfoComm tradeshow app, powered by ChatGPT, at last week's show. 22Miles used publicly available event information and ChatGPT integration to create a custom conversational interface capable of answering questions about the event and guiding attendees to booths, meeting…
A company that has been building a retail media network based on 'smart' transparent LCD chiller doors has taken out a $200m lawsuit against US pharmacy store chain Walgreens in a contract dispute. Cooler Screens has filed an action in an Illinois state court, alleging that Walgreens reneged on a…
As a company that builds both hardware and software, we have a unique perspective on the symbiotic relationship between software and hardware. Hardware companies are almost entirely dependent on software to achieve mass-market adoption – and not just software native to the device. We’re living in the ecosystem era, when…
Chessington World of Adventures Resort has unveiled a new fully interactive digital concierge, with digital signage partner Trison UK lending a hand to operator Merlin Entertainments. The Polo digital concierge is designed to inform and entertain guests in a new, fun and engaging way. Polo can answer questions about the…
Media company Alpha & Jam has unveiled the largest 3D digital billboard in Africa. Maslow – which at more than 800 sq metres is slightly bigger than the Piccadilly Lights display in London – is the first true 4K digital billboard in Nigeria. The billboard is visible to an estimated…
A Manchester-based AV company transformed Liverpool’s Unity Theatre into an interactive celebration of Ukrainian culture for the Eurovision Song Contest. Culture Liverpool commissioned the Unity Theatre to create a ‘Place Of Hope’, with various cultural events and a pop-up exhibition to allow visitors to learn about Ukraine and its people…
OOH advertising site developer Pearl Media has unveiled its first digital signage in Las Vegas. The Gateway, which is 900 sq metre and comprises more than 14 million pixels, is one of the city's largest DOOH displays. The curved display, which tapers from one end to the other, is on…
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