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Back in May we were the first to break the news that Amscreen had won again with several dozen new installs in WHSmith retail concessions in various transport hubs around the UK (adding of course) to their already large Forecourt Network. Liquid Digital Ltd., part of the Retec Digital Group are still retained by WHSmith […]

DailyDOOH will be three years old on Monday 26th July and as usual the founders end up celebrating the birthday in style. Here we see them at the Henley Festival in their finery. Undoubtedly we will be running nearer the time, a couple of stories and some special banner advertisements to celebrate the birthday as […]

On Monday June 7th 2010 David Weinfield wrote ‘Ticker Free Day 2010: Fighting Digital Signage Ticker Abuse‘ and came up with the idea of today… A day that should see digital screen networks everywhere abstain from using tickers on their displays. As David told us “ticker free day is meant to bring awareness to the […]

Today, after decades of abuse and over-exposure on a global scale,  the News Ticker quietly passed away. The last known Ticker in existence apparently ticked its very last headline sometime around 3am Friday morning on a digital screen inside an empty sports bar in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It’s sad demise was a symptom of it’s […]

Data feeds that are visualized in ‘ticker’ format are actually the vestigial organs of today’s digital signage messaging hierarchies. Like the human appendix; at one point the ticker had a function, but over time the ticker’s overall usefulness has become redundant to more sophisticated and efficient ways of displaying information. In the Jurassic age of […]

I was on the train to London this morning using my iPad to catch up on a few emails and have a bit of a browse when it struck me that you wouldn’t see a ticker on an iPad. OK, I may be stretching the DOOH metaphor a little when I suggest that the iPad […]

In launching Ticker Free Day, some people questioned my thinking toward eliminating all tickers across the digital signage industry. A handful of individuals cited examples of tickers working well within digital signage networks. My impetus to create Ticker Free Day was not born from a hatred of every single ticker that exists in the world, […]

Stop and think, for a second, what was involved in keeping up on breaking news a decade ago. In July 2000, Clinton was still in the White House, few people had heard of the Taliban or a guy named Osama, the tech fuss was about Napster, and Apple was just trying to stay in business. […]

LinkedIn is showing David Ruvolo, the Carpet and Rug Institute‘s engineering manager, as now being the VP of Technology at Wind Tunnel. Wind Tunnel seems to include Jason Friedman as well, so looks like they took David with them? David was a big part of the design at Xanadu (Meadowlands) and oversaw many of the […]

World Cup fans stuck in Markham Ontario Markville Mall during last weeks’ Quarter Final Rounds must have been pleasantly surprised by a 3×3 video wall playing live World Cup content in the atrium of the mall. The pop-up install, done by Gridcast Media, a Digital Signage content provider and integrator, featured mall-centric content intermixed with […]