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The DOOH/DPB Network Locator is designed to help media buyers, planner and strategists identify digital place-based advertising networks by location, venue type, demographics and reach. There are 115 advertising-based networks organized by country. Continue reading

JCDecaux has expanded its Transvision digital signage network with the launch of a second screen at London Victoria Station. Continue reading

JCDecaux UK has announced the launch of Channel 6, a national digital out-of-home (DOOH) network of 1,400 digital signage screens across the UK. Continue reading

Forbes and Atlanta-based Paradies, an airport retailer, have announced the launch of Forbes branded newsstands in airports across North America. The news and technology-focused stores will provide an engaging experience for travelers seeking the latest news in business, investing, technology, and entrepreneurship. In-store televisions will air programs from the Forbes video network. Interactive technology stations will allow customers the ability to peruse Forbes.com for breaking stories and market updates via interactive touch screens. Continue reading

Looking For Attention? Well, here’s your chance to gain some real visibility. The world’s largest digital signage billboard is now available for corporate sponsorship, according to Branded Cities Network, a leader in large format digital signage. Continue reading

The use of sensors and data feeds to drive digital place-based creative is becoming more commonplace. Last November we featured a story on Clear Channel UK using sensors and live data feeds to trigger creative content displayed on their Chiswick Towers digital place-based screens along London’s M4 approach. Continue reading

Active consumers spend money, and while they are going about their daily routine, they are also actively looking for information. According to Google, more than 50% of all mobile searches have local intent, and 17% of search happens while consumers are on the go. Continue reading

BMW’s agency, Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners and Spies & Assassins, a creative-technology boutique that focuses on digital development swept Digital Signage Expo’s 2014 Apex and Content Awards held in Las Vegas yesterday evening. Continue reading

SEEN & NOTED: NEW YORK, NY — VeriFone Media has launched a new digital signage taxi top advertising platform that features high-definition, full-motion video displays. VeriFone’s Digital Taxi Top Ad Platform is also capable of running geo-targeted and dayparted creative campaigns. The network provides near-real-time updates for sporting events and includes social media integration. VeriFone Media’s digital taxi top fleet currently includes 30 taxis with a full rollout of 100 cars taking place later this month. Continue reading

TimsTV is an in-restaurant place-based television channel that will showcase Tim Hortons content at 2,200 existing Tim Hortons restaurants across Canada and most new Tim Hortons restaurants currently in development. Tim Hortons and Cineplex expect TimsTV to begin rolling out across Canada in late February. Continue reading

China’s largest auto showroom features 700 42-inch digital signage displays each fitted to the front and back of each support pillar on 5 floors. AKD Luxury Cars Mall was opened in 2013 and accommodates more than 3000 luxury vehicles. The showroom is a magnet for car enthusiasts amongst China’s fast growing affluent professional community. Continue reading

Verizon’s Destination Store is the latest concept to elevate brand engagement by turning the store into an interactive playground designed to demonstrate how mobile technology can enhance day-to-day living for consumers. Continue reading

The world’s larger high-definition video wall has gone live at Suntec Exhibition and Convention Centre in Singapore. The video wall, called “The Big Picture”, stands over 15-meters tall and 60-meters wide, and is located inside the main lobby and entrance to Suntec. The Big Picture HD video wall has received the official Guinness World Records title for the Largest High-Definition Video Wall on record. Continue reading

Holt Renfrew, a chain of high-end Canadian department stores, has installed a pair of large-scale LED displays at their Yorkdale Mall location. The new LED display are part of Holt Renfrew’s recent store re-designed and stand at the front of store. The LED display features six 29 foot tall by 4 foot wide panels displaying the latest fashion trends in dynamic imagery to wow passers-by and to welcome shoppers into the store. Continue reading

hristie Digital Systems' headquarters features a large scale video wall that features an innovative use of their MicroTiles product line. The video wall uses 108 Christie MicroTiles embedded into and spanning two walls in the main lobby of the company’s offices in Cypress, CA. The system runs branded product and ambient digital content at a full native resolution of 23,760 x 2,700 pixels; the equivalent of 30 full HD sources or eight 4K resolutions. Christie worked with Montréal-based Arsenal Media to design and build the installation that included the playback system and custom content. Continue reading

Multi-touch surfaces continue to grow in popularity for a wide range of applications that include interactive windows, walls and table tops. Zytronic, a developer of touch sensor products, has announced that they are working with DisplayLite, a touch screen integrator to introduce a range of large-format, zero-bezel multi-touch tables and wall-mounted displays. Continue reading

News comes our way of a new installation that claims to be the world's largest continuous array of touchscreen displays. Queensland University of Technology (QUT) has built a new $230 million Science and Engineering Center at their Gardens Point campus that features one of the world's largest public digital interactive learning spaces. Continue reading

Display Solution AG, a Bavaria-based manufacturer and distributor of LCDs and digital signage solutions is showcasing a new deployment utilizing their in-store digital shelf labeling solution called Shelf Vision. Shelf Vision is a shelf level electronic point-of-sales display system that enables retailers to easily update product information, prices, and display video-based promotional messages at the point-of-decision. According to current marketing studies, most purchasing decisions are made directly at the point-of-sale such as in front of a shelf, so micro-screen digital signage displays are starting to make inroads with retailers. Continue reading

Razorfish's Frankfurt office built a prototype NFC-enabled Gumball Machine to demonstrate how the technology can help marketers to bridge mobile technology with real world analog objects. Last Summer, during a two-day prototyping session Razorfish's Frankfurt team assembled the components into an original gumball machine metal base that include a Samsung Galaxy Tab, an NFC shield, a simple reed switch and two Arduino micro-controllers. Continue reading

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's video wall is an an interactive platform that was developed through a collaboration between the SFPUC, Obscura Digital, the San Francisco Arts Commission and KMD Architects. The SFPUC Digital Arts Wall is a seamless curved digital canvas that measures 4-feet high and spans 58-feet in length with a native resolution of 62 million pixels. The video wall uses 160 Christie MicroTiles, a modular display system that has become popular with architects, to display high‐resolution data and graphic visualizations which include an unfolding history of the SFPUC, real-time news data and ambient music. Continue reading

Dubai International Airport's Concourse A, now features a new digital signage screen network with more than 100 screens at the newly opened Dubai Duty Free retail stores. The new network includes several large scale video walls and LED screens. Connectiv, a Dubai-based developer that specializes in managing and selling digital advertising network within the duty-free travel retail sector deployed the new network as well as manages a smaller 15 screen digital signage network at Dubai Airport's Terminal B. Continue reading

PNC Arena, home to the NHL's Carolina Hurricanes and the North Carolina State University men’s basketball program, has upgraded its concession operations with a new digital signage network consisting of 160 LCD screens. The new network delivers advertising and event related information to PNC's more than 1.5 million guests who visit its facility annually for more than 150 events including concerts, family shows, hockey games and basketball games. Continue reading

The Buy Paris Duty Free shops at Charles de Gaulle International Airport have recently added digital signage displays. Buy Paris' flagship store at Charles de Gaulle airport opened on March 27, 2012 and is equipped with seven double-horizontal ceiling-mounted screens, and a video wall spanning nine square meters using 46- and 70-inch Samsung displays. A second store at de Gaulle's Terminal 2 departure lounge features a pair of display walls covering 14 square meters each and a column comprised of 36 synchronized, 43-inch Hyundai screens. Continue reading

Microsoft has launched one of the UK’s largest interactive digital out-of-home (DOOH) advertising campaigns by enticing consumers to get "famous" by personalizing their Windows Phone Start screen using interactive digital signage screens. The DOOH campaign uses 24 interactive digital signage touch screens that are placed in shopping malls and cinemas across the UK to enable consumers to personalize their phones using photos and first names. Continue reading