LG Acquires 80% Stake in #AI Biz Athom

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

LG Electronics has acquired an 80 percent stake in Athom, an industry-leading smart home platform company based in Enschede, Netherlands. The agreement includes plans to acquire the remaining 20 percent within the next three years. This strategic move aims to enhance LG’s connectivity within open smart home ecosystems. By integrating Athom’s capabilities with LG’s Affectionate […]

Advertima and PADS4 Retail Partnership

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024

Andrew Neale

Advertima and PADS4 have partnered on a scalable and cutting-edge ad-serving solution for digital signage networks in retail environments. They say that this collaboration solves digital advertising’s existing constraints of real-time targeting, performance analytics, and accessibility. Advertima’s visual-spatial sensors capture real-time anonymized audience data, transformed into specific pre-defined segments. This enables precise impression-based direct I/O […]

Ryff In-Scene Out-of-Home

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2024

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Ryff, who describe themselves as pioneers of in-scene advertising and virtual product placement has partnered with influential UK media ower Elonex to launch what they call ‘In-Scene Out-of-Home’, also described as a groundbreaking advertising model that enables Elonex to take Ryff’s inventory of in-scene billboards to market alongside its DOOH advertising sites. We are told […]

Impossibly Smart Billboard Using Gemini #AI

Monday, July 1st, 2024

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As part of Google’s annual Creative Lighthouse event that took place during the most recent Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, Google invited Tombras and a select group of creative visionaries to unveil work from an experiment powered by Generative AI using Gemini. The ask was to create an ‘impossible’ ad campaign using Gemini to […]

WPP Unveils #AI-powered Production Studio

Monday, June 24th, 2024

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

WPP has announced the launch of Production Studio, an AI-enabled, end-to-end production application developed using NVIDIA Omniverse, that streamlines and automates the creation of text, images and video, transforming content creation for advertisers and marketers. Embedded within WPP Open, the company’s intelligent marketing operating system powered by AI, Production Studio will provide access to the […]

Generative #AI: The Next Medium

Monday, June 24th, 2024

Andrew Neale

NVIDIA and SIGGRAPH 2024 Frontiers present a new webinar that will explore how the intersection of graphics and #AI are driving a new wave of innovation. Join NVIDIA’s Bryan Catanzaro, Vice President of Applied Deep Learning Research at NVIDIA, for a discussion on generative AI and how specialized applications will help solve unique problems across […]

Harnessing #AI to Boost Confidence & Impact

Sunday, June 23rd, 2024

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is playing an increasing role in our professional and personal lives. Understanding and fully utilizing #AI can be a game-changer in your career. This WEDOOH: Harnessing AI to Boost Your Confidence and Impact at Work workshop, designed for women (however all are welcome) in the DOOH industry will delve into how AI […]

#GenAI Interactive DOOH Experience

Tuesday, June 18th, 2024

Tristan Cotterill

Garnier Thailand, Wavemaker and Aircards have used Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to create an interactive DOOH experience showcasing Pride supporters in all their unique glory. Garnier, the no. 1 skincare brand in Thailand, and its agency Wavemaker enlisted UK-based creative tech partner, Aircards, to create an innovative DOOH Pride experience that lets people celebrate their […]

Enabling #AI in Live Media and Broadcast

Wednesday, May 29th, 2024

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

NVIDIA offers some of the most advanced platforms for #AI, graphics, virtualization, and networking, ie. the underlying technologies for software-defined live media infrastructure that can deliver the latest capabilities in immersion, personalization, and interactivity. These solutions enable broadcasters, sports leagues, streaming platforms, and application developers across the industry to revolutionize workflows and operations while ushering […]

How #AI Will Change Everything

Wednesday, May 29th, 2024

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Joe Pham, Chairman and CEO of QSC, will deliver the keynote at #InfoComm24 on Wednesday, June 12 at 11 a.m. and guide the audience through an immersive presentation on how the pro AV industry can capture the opportunities presented by #AI. Joe told us “The potential unleashed by AI on our industry—from revolutionizing experiential delivery […]