With consumers returning to stores following the COVID-19 lockdowns in many regions, retailers have an opportunity to return to growth. One factor they need to be cognizant of is that shopping habits have changed, and many consumers are more comfortable with digital commerce.
As municipalities evolve into the trending “smart cities”, digital signage remains at the core of the execution plan. Whether digital displays are located inside or out, they provide critical information to the community that is an accessible form of communication for all area residents.
TBWA\Paris is best known to us for its epic McDonald’s ads, which range from poignant to totally nuts. We sometimes forget the agency does right by its nonprofit clients, too. For the organization HandsAway, the agency produced “Fearless Night,” a campaign that’s less about showmanship and more about illumination.
7-Eleven Begins Digital Signage Rollout in Australia. Visual Art, a digital signage provider in Stockholm, Sweden, is entering the Australian market with deployments at 7-Eleven convenience stores.
Mindshare UK won the Grand Prix, as well as the Retail and Ecommerce and Best Pivot categories at The Drum Awards for Marketing 2021, with its work for KFC. This fresh and self-deprecating campaign impressed the judges by leveraging a decades-old slogan to find humor in a difficult time.
Work continues apace at entertainment destination venue American Dream, as SNA Displays completes the installation of several key EMPIRE™ Exterior LED screens, with more to come. The vast development, which stretches out over three million square feet just off the New Jersey Turnpike, reopened in October 2020 and thrills its many visitors with numerous retail stores, entertainment venues, and attractions, not to mention a vast network of interior digital signage, also installed and managed by SNA Displays.
Digital displays are an important part of the customer experience in Dulux Trade Centres, however, DuluxGroup’s existing system was not performing as required. The system was unsupported, unreliable and the expensive licensing fees meant it was also costly to run.
Brick-and-mortar retailers were among those hit hardest by the Covid-19 pandemic. Last spring, stores across the globe closed as a result of widespread lockdown measures, causing a decrease in both overall in-store traffic and revenue. But it wasn’t all negative: Some retailers viewed the crisis as an opportunity to adapt to changing customer needs by accelerating their digital transformations and enhancing their brick-and-mortar store and online operations.
It is the only large-scale street vision in Japan with image quality equivalent to 4K in the 150m2 class. Utilizing the curved form, it is possible to broadcast 3D images that cannot be expressed by general flat signage. As a demonstration of 3D images, a giant 3D calico cat will appear between regular broadcasts. It strongly attracts the interest of peripheral users.
Digital signage is pushing into a wide variety of spaces, especially one often overlooked space: conference rooms. COVID-19 has made display technology for conference rooms even more critical, as remote workers need a way to be able to interact with meetings without being physically present.
