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The digital signage most wanted: March's most-read stories on DST

Here's the roundup of the digital signage news readers were most interested in for the month of March.

April 11, 2013 by Christopher Hall — w, t

Spring Fever and March Madness have taken hold, especially here in the home offices in Louisville, Ky., home to this year's NCAA men's basketball champions, the University of Louisville Cardinals.

But now that the celebration has faded to a dull roar, let's take a look back at last month's top stories on DigitalSignageToday.com — as chosen by you, the readers.

Unfortunately, the top news story from last month was a somber one, reminding the digital signage industry to take another look at safety practices.

But, without further ado, and in reverse numerical order, here are last month's top five most-read articles from DigitalSignageToday.com (by total pageviews):

5. "Digital signage the coin for future NYC payphones (Video)": In this piece we took a quick look at a the key role digital signage played in a recent contest to redesign New York City payphones with the city's Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge. Five of the six finalist designs – and the eventual winner of the contest's popular vote — heavily incorporated digital signage elements into their concepts. The idea is to take the payphone, a now largely archaic reminder of the pre-cellphone era, and reinvent it as a modern informational nexus.

4. "Digital signage set to flood NYC Transit": The Empire State strikes again in this feature about the digital signage-centric wayfinding kiosks being piloted by the city's Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The second-phase pilot, currently underway, is set to run through 2015, but if early expectations are met or exceeded, the city could issue an RFP later this year for an MTA-wide rollout, one that would amount to several thousand digital signage kiosk units.

3. "DSE13: Digital signage leading the way to a future 'Day Made of Glass'": Digital signage is the industry on the cutting-edge for early adoption of new glass technologies, according to Dr. Peter Bocko, the CTO for Corning Inc.'s Glass Technologies Group. Corning's two "A Day Made of Glass" videos created a stir with their visions of a potential future lived surrounded by immersive computing glass technologies, and digital signage will lead the way to those futures, Bocko said in his keynote at this year's Digital Signage Expo in Las Vegas.

2. "DSE13 Roundup: Another 'Godzilla' crashing digital signage party": This roundup looked at some of the highlights from Digital Signage Expo, from Toshiba's foray into the digital signage space as a managed services company to the introduction of Samsung's new System-on-Chip digital signage displays.

1. "Airport digital signage accident a 'wake-up call'": A recent tragic accident in which an airport digital signage display fell on and killed a 10-year-old boy should be "a wake-up call" for the digital signage industry to work to help ensure the proper mounting and securement of displays and enclosures in public spaces, according to A/V mounting experts interviewed for this article.

(Cover image taken from Good Morning America video on the accident.)

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