The world's tallest moving statue is set to open at a major shopping mall in the US, with a skin covered in custom-created LEDs. The Giant Company Attractions Limited, based in Dublin, Ireland and the American Dream Mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey have announced plans to launch the project…
PPDS has provided Philips digital signage displays and the Wave Controller cloud platform for 40 of Finnish eye-care specialist Silmäasema's high-street stores. Silmäasema tasked AV integration specialist FirstView Digital Signage and PPDS with reinventing the way in which it communicated with customers, while delivering more-sustainable and cost-efficient business practices. Philips…
LS Systems provided the audio for a pop-up event in South Korea for US shoe manufacturer VANS. The skate brand organised a two-day pop-up event in Seoul that featured a shopping market, skate shows and DJ sets in a disused underground station. Local audio specialist Sonic Value opted to deploy…
A new report has revealed that nearly two-thirds of shoppers enter a store without a specific purchase in mind, looking to be inspired by retailers that create the ideal ambience through digital screens and interactive kiosks. Mood Media's 2023 In-store Customer Trends research, which surveyed more than 8,000 participants globally,…
Meta Quest game Asgard's Wrath 2 has been launched with a scene-stealing hologram outside a games awards ceremony in Los Angeles. The illusion, which showed gods and monsters in action in the night sky, appears to use large-scale projection on to hologram gauze suspended from cranes in a car park.…
Background music (BGM) in restaurants, bars, shops and hotels has always been a contentious and divisive issue. Some people may feel while shopping or trying to enjoy a meal they are being bombarded by songs, often played at overly loud and intrusive levels; but others might feel uncomfortable if a…
A pair of Christmas trees, drawn by David Hockney on an iPad, are being projection mapped on to London's iconic Battersea Power Station. The Bigger Christmas Trees artwork can be seen in a ten-minute animation at the power station where Apple has its UK headquarters. The mapping on to the…
UK supermarket chain Tesco now has a digital signage network of 1,800 screens, making it the largest in the UK grocery market. Tesco has more than quadrupled the size of its digital screen network since March when it had around 400 screens and the network is now present in 420…
An Australian supermarket chain has teamed up with out-of-home ad tech provider Broadsign to enhance the offering on its in-store digital screens. The partnership will enable Coles 360 to schedule, manage and deliver content and adverts across its network of media displays. The retailer first deployed front-of-store screens in 2021…
ZetaDisplay has signed a multi-year framework agreement with Axfood, initially for the development of a new digital signage concept for 220 of Swedish grocery chain Hemköp's stores. Hemköp wanted to challenge established digital signage practices and deliver a refreshed in-store concept backed by a focus on business value, data and…
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