Sony’s new concept store appears to totally skip in-store video

by Dave Haynes | 28th July 2010

Suppose you were one of the world’s great consumer electronics brands, with a reputation for premium displays, and you decided to change up the retail design for a concept store. You’d make good use of those displays to tell the brand story and communicate with shoppers, right? Well, no. You’d print up some signs and [...] Read More

Kroger’s digital coupon offer improves bargain-buying, but …

by Dave Haynes | 27th July 2010

US grocer Kroger has introduced a digital coupon system that appears to make that whole exercise a lot easier and more interesting. Instead of getting coupons from here and there and everywhere, and printing them off websites or having printers in kiosks, the coupons are all hived together from a central location of the Kroger [...] Read More

Digital signage for queues controlled by dead-simple touch UI

by Dave Haynes | 26th July 2010

The queue management systems business seems really well suited to bolting digital signage on to the offers, since you have people in lines or crowded waiting rooms starting at at a little screen as the numbers count up and down to the time when they can get served. That little screen gets a lot of [...] Read More

Gov’t-backed DOOH company starts rollout in Emirates

by Dave Haynes | 19th July 2010

The government-backed Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC) has launched a pure-play digital out of home ad media company that is all about advertising and media services in the Emirates and around the Middle East. The company already has a broad portfolio of broadcast and print assets. Bankrolled by the Abu Dhabi government through ADMC, the [...] Read More

Audience counting gets a yappy new advocate in Mark Cuban

by Dave Haynes | 19th July 2010

I just invested in a company that takes video of an area and can tell you exactly how many people are in the capture area at any given time.  It’s great for traffic patterns, security, and much more.  We are posting cameras in certain environments where anonymity is required, and we don’t and won’t capture [...] Read More

Nice integrated storescape uses social and interactive to promote tourism

by Dave Haynes | 9th July 2010

This is really nice by the looks of it, and not just because it humps my fair home and native land. As flagged on the PSFK website: The Canadian Tourism Commission teamed up with DDB Vancouver to develop an interactive campaign to engage the cities of Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles in a playfully [...] Read More

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