To advertise or entertain: No longer a question of choosing one over the other

by Ben Stagg — CTO, Vital Media, Inc

If you're one of the booming number of retailers, dealers and service facilities who have caught on to the value of in-store TV, chances are you're using it…

Ogilvy Digital Lab drawn to Magnetic 3D digital signage

February 1, 2012

Magnetic 3D, a global provider of autostereoscopic "glasses-free" 3-D displays and digital signage solutions, today announced that it has been selected by…

NRF 2012: Digital in-store media called to deliver, Pt. I (Commentary)

An expert digital signage consultant offers up his take on this year's edition of Retails' BIG Show.

Put digital signage on your shirt

January 26, 2012

Black Box, a provider of multimedia and digital signage technology, announced that it has introduced iCOMPEL WDS, a centrally manageable platform for wearable…

Retail's 'Big Show' goes digital in 2012

by Jon Parks — PMM, Avnet

While The National Retail Federation (better known as NRF) celebrated its 101st birthday this past week, I made my very first trip to retail's Big Show. As a…

Monster Media and Katy Perry say 'Meow'

January 25, 2012

According to a relase from Monster Media, shoppers at The Grove retail complex in Los Angeles could count on at least one free gift this holiday season — a…

Specialty Cinema to distribute Signbox digital signage

January 24, 2012

The Specialty Cinema division of the Specialty Group Pty Ltd is now exclusive distributor for Signbox Microsystems Pte Ltd (Signbox) in Australia and New…

Dynamic duo: Phone-charging kiosk and interactive digital signage at NRF 2012 (Video)

NEC Display Solutions and Monster Media partner for interactive digital signage in a phone-charging kiosk.

Retail chain Century 21 adds NCR Netkey digital signage solution

January 16, 2012

NCR Corp. recently announced that Century 21, a discount designer department store chain, will expand its use of digital signage to stores throughout the…

Digital Screenmedia Association to present webinar on location-based marketing technology

January 16, 2012

The Digital Screenmedia Association (DSA) will host a free one-hour webinar at 1 p.m. Eastern on Jan. 24 entitled "Using Location-Based Marketing Technology to…

STRATACACHE exhibits Digital@Retail digital signage solution @ NRF Big Show

January 15, 2012

Digital signage technology firm STRATACACHE is exhibiting its latest Digital@Retail experiences that digitally connect customers to brands at the National…

Will 2012 finally be the year for digital-signage-in-a-box?

by Don Pierson — Founder, President, Flypaper

For a couple of years now I've been hearing about "digital signage in a box." In other words, an everything-in-one digital signage solution that a neophyte…

Vending machine 2.0 serves up snacks and personalized digital signage ads (Video)

by Christopher Hall — w, t

A digital signage advertising and vending kiosk uses Intel's AIMS analytics to target ads and offerings to consumers.

Passing the relevance test and getting engaged

by Ben Stagg — CTO, Vital Media, Inc

Living in a connected society means we are constantly barraged with information, and the only way to remain top of the POP is to maximize the relevance of our…

The top 10 coolest DOOH deployments of 2011 (Video)

Digital signage content maven Keith Kelsen takes a look back at the most innovative, cool DOOH deployments of the year.

Turkish grocery chain rolls out YCD digital signage

December 15, 2011

YCD Multimedia, a global provider of smart digital media solutions to the retail business world, recently announced that its digital signage software, C-nario…

Use digital signage to do more with less

by Jeff Hastings — CEO, BrightSign

At least 40 percent of my time is spent on the road attending and speaking at conferences, meeting with integrators and visiting their customer sites. It lets…

Canadian apparel chain goes with the ADFLOW

December 11, 2011

Toronto, Ontario, Canada — Canadian apparel chain Mark's, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Canadian Tire, has selected ADFLOW Networks as its digital signage…

Bass Pro Shops go fishing with digital signage

December 5, 2011

DMX Inc. and its digital signage partner, 11Giraffes, recently announced that they were selected by Bass Pro Shops to launch the chain's new digital signage…

CETW: ComQi talks Shazam & expanding DOOH footprint (Video)

by Christopher Hall

Comqi executive Stu Armstrong talks about his firm's new mobile interactivity initiative, and the success of CETW.