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Digital Signage: Top Story

Simplifying Local Content Control: ‘Now, Context Is King’

By John W. DeWitt

For years, “Content is king!” has been the mantra for the emerging digital signage industry. Once retailers and other users worked through the technical hurdles of deploying their signage network, they inevitably discover that maintaining a steady stream of fresh, relevant content is their biggest ongoing challenge...

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FEATURES & COLUMNS

The Long Tail: The Growing Market for Basic Digital Signage

Even as sophisticated, large-scale digital-signage networks proliferate, there is enormous growth opportunity in the underserved market for basic “digital poster” signage solutions, according to Eric Kanagy, CEO of Goshen, Ind.-based RedPost...

How to Implement Digital Signage as Strategic Media

Today’s digital signage technology enables more contextually driven, interactive content powered by advanced, realtime integration with business systems. However, harnessing sophisticated capabilities demands that retailers and their technology partners go beyond limited, tactical use of “in-store TV,” according to Jeff Collard, president of signage software company Omnivex...

Air Canada Signage Network Keeps Employees Up to Date

Ubiquitous digital signage at major airports informs and entertains the traveling public—but what about airline employees? The world’s 14th-largest commercial airline answers this question with Air Canada News (ACN), a broadcast-quality, bilingual digital-signage network that the airline recently piloted (no pun intended) in its Montréal In-Flight Service Crew Support Centre and In-Flight Service Training Centre...