The Mannequins Are Watching You Watching Them
November 20, 2012 by Dave Haynes
When we think of anonymous video analytics in retail, we tend to think about products like Intel’s AIM Suite being integrated as software and …
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Pinch Smart Devices For Free-Form Video Clusters
November 2, 2012 by Dave Haynes
I haven’t worked out in my head how this could apply to digital signage, but new software developed by researchers at the Tokyo University of …
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DPAA Says Sector Growing At 6X Pace Of Media In General
October 10, 2012 by Dave Haynes
The Digital Place-based Advertising Association says the sector it bangs its drums about grew at roughly six times the pace of total measured ad …
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Scala Hires Major Mr. Smartypants To Run Advanced Analytics
September 18, 2012 by Dave Haynes
So the conventional wisdom in competing in a highly, highly competitive vertical like retail is to hire a big shooter business development guy or …
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Research: Advice, Opinions Trusted; Display Ads, Not So Much
September 17, 2012 by Dave Haynes
The research firm Nielsen has released the latest results from seems to be an ongoing study about the trust factor in all forms of …
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Research: Humor, Character Development Matter Most In TV Ads
August 22, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Very litttle of this can be directly applied to the small-budget, silent and mostly motion graphics world of sigital signage and digital OOH content …
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Research: Nielsen Global Study Shows Price, Nutrition Biggest Grocery Buying Factors
August 21, 2012 by Dave Haynes
The research firm Nielsen has some really interesting survey results out today about consumer decision making in grocery – with findings that may seem …
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MIT Tries LCD Layers To Improve Glasses-Free 3D
July 12, 2012 by Dave Haynes
[youtube id=”VJWJMh1PmR4″ width=”610″ height=”343″] Glasses-free 3D, as now presented, kinda, generally sucks. It just doesn’t look great and the visual trickery that’s done using …
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Canada 3.0 Moves From Small Town To Big City
July 5, 2012 by Dave Haynes
I quite liked the Canada 3.0 digital media forum and trade show I went to this spring, though I wondered what on Earth it …
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PRI Index Suggests Optimism For Sector Starting To Sag
June 21, 2012 by Dave Haynes
The Chicago-based Platt Retail Institute has released the Q2 2012 edition of the PRI-DSF North American Digital Signage Index, which pretty much mirrors the …
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OAAA Research Gives Snapshot Of How Consumers Spend Time Outside Homes
May 7, 2012 by Dave Haynes
Research released last week by the Outdoor Advertising Assocation of America provides an interesting snapshot of how consumers spend their time away from, with …
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Imagine Digital Displays That Were Glare-Free & Self-Cleaning
April 27, 2012 by Dave Haynes
The crazy-smart kids and their profs at MIT have released details and visuals of what could be the glass of the future for everything from …
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