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Digital Signage: What is Dayparting?
Today I stumbled across the term “dayparting” when I was reading two articles relating to digital signage and thought I’d quickly explain what this means. Dayparting in digital signage terms, means scheduling messages or content based on the time of the day to target different types of audiences. This is very similar to how TV [...]

Digital Signage Klips: A cool and interactive marketing system from BOSE
Here’s a klip of a cool and interactive marketing system from BOSE that was showcasing the SoundDock 10 digital music system for the iphone or the ipod. According to the reader there is a small LCD screen that is used to display video clips. The audio from the video clip is played to the SoundDock [...]

Clever Concept Vending Machine with See−Through Display
Here’s an interesting and clever concept vending machine with a see through display that is being developed by a Japanese company. But firstly, he’s a few points from the video: They use a Vertical Full HD 65″ Transparent display. We don’t know the brand of the display. Does anyone know? The products behind the display [...]

Digital Signage Klip: Free Mobile Phone Charging station with a twist
This will be our last post and digital signage klip for 2011 so enjoy. 2012 will be another exciting year for digital signage so please come back and pay us a visit. One of our Sydney readers sent us a photo of a mobile phone charging station with a digital screen. The company that developed [...]

2011 Digital Signage Quiet Achievers
2011 has been great year for digital signage but in the media all we hear about is the big digital signage manufacturers/developers launching new products and  the large digital signage network owners growing their networks. We hardly hear about the smaller companies launching their unique and innovative digital signage solutions and this year we want [...]

What are SLIM digital signage players?
I’ve been stumbling across a couple of articles relating to SLIM digital signage players and to be honest I didn’t have a clue what SLIM was so I decided to dwelve a little further into this topic. According to a−smil.org they describe SMIL as: SMIL (pronounced “smile”) stands for “Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language” and defines [...]

Exciting news: NDS Closes 1 million euro loan for market expansion in 2012
Net Display Systems  (NDS), is a well known digital signage software company based in the Netherlands. We have just read the following news: Net Display Systems BV (NDS), manufacturer of digital signage software have closed a loan of approximately 1 million euro (1.33 million dollar) for financing its growth plans of 2012 and beyond. The [...]

Samsung LED screens
I’m amazed at how light and thin the Samsung LED screens are compared to the LCD screens. We just purchased several Samsung SA300 screens for the office. Although they do come with a price, they are so much easier to install and configure.   Here’s some information of the screens: (source: http://www.samsung.com/hk_en/consumer/computer−peripherals/monitors/consumer/LS23A300BS/XK/index.idx?pagetype=prd_detail&tab=specification&subsubtype=series−3−led): Display Screen Size: [...]

Digital Signage Klips: Digital Signage in Lifts
digital signage is everywhere! You’ve probably seen these in shopping centres, retail stores, medical centres, hotels, restaurants, take away stores, bathrooms/toilets, public venues, train stations, bus stops, reception areas, offices and now they can be found in lifts too. Here’s a picture of a small screen located in a lift showing live TV: If you [...]

Digital Signage Klips: LED Screen in Darling Harbour Shopping Centre
Quite a number of Shopping Centres are now installing LED screens suspended from the ceiling and I’m quite intrigued as to what was involved with installing such a complex and large screen. Here’s the image in the Darling Harbour Shopping Centre in Sydney Australia: If you have klips you would like to share with the [...]

Free Tools to remotely manage your Digital Signage Solution
There are two basic  free tools that we use to remotely manage our digital signage solution – (this is when we use the Microsoft Windows Operating System), Remote Desktop and VNC: Microsoft Remote Desktop The first tool is the built in Microsoft Remote Desktop. This needs to be enabled in your Operating System by going [...]

Guest Post: 10 Best Practices for Digital Signage
1. Keep it Simple ? Shorter words and phrases are easier to read ? phrases with 3−4 words work well, but a single word can draw lots of attention as well. Each screen should only contain one focused message. Think of writing active, headline−style phrases rather than full sentences. 2. Repetition ? Make sure to [...]

Digital Signage for Exhibitions
We recently helped one of our clients with implementing digital signage at their exhibition booth. As part of our digital signage exhibition package we included the following: Hardware rental of the LCD Screen, Stand and Digital Signage player Transportation of the goods to and from the exhibition hall Installation of the system and removal at [...]

Power On Management features for your digital signage player
Does your digital signage player allow you to automatically power on when it’s connected to power? Have you been in this situation: Your digital signage players are powered on and are happily running the content on the screens. Then your building has a power outage and all of digital signage players lose power and end [...]

3G modem providers that allow inbound connections for Digital Signage
Have you been in this situation: 1. You’ve installed a digital signage player and want to remotely manage the unit 2. You don’t want to install a telephone or ADSL line because the costs are too high 3. You only need the Internet connection for a short perid of time i.e. 1−2 months 4. You [...]

Digital Signage Supplier in Australia
advertise me is your one stop shop for all your digital signage needs and solutions. Whether you need a digital menu board or an enterprise digital signage system, Advertise Me will be able to deliver a solution that will meets your budget and needs. Advertise Me is a leading digital signage solutions provider and are [...]

Advertising Digital Signage networks
Last week I was at my local shopping centre and noticed that they installed digital signage. The setup was as follows: There were two 47″ LG screens hanging from the ceiling. There was an LG player the back of the first screen Connected to the player there was a Telstra USB 3G modem – I’m [...]

3D Glasses for Digital Signage
This week we posted a blog about 3D screens. A few hours after the post we were bombareded with emails from companies who manufacture 3D glasses. I guess 3D glasses are a consumer product and it’s something that most people would not carry with them. It doesn’t make sense to have a 3D screen in [...]

Digital Signage and 3D Screens
We were recently contacted by a 3D screen manufacturer who wanted to introduce their products. Now I personally believe that 3D screens are a great way to attract attention especially in bars and clubs, however is it worth spending the extra cash to replace your existing screens with 3D screens? © AdvertiseMe.com.au for Digital Signage [...]

Guest Post: Wireless Internet and Digital Signage
Written by Guest Blogger: Heather McDaniels When you see a message scrolling or flashing across a billboard, or a video advertisement on the side of a stadium, or even short videos streamed on scoreboards at ballgames, you are seeing products of what is known as the digital signage industry. You are of course familiar with [...]

Guest Post: The Pitfalls of Do−It−Yourself Digital Signage
Written by Guest Blogger: Barbara Jolie Let me preface this post with the fact that I absolutely love Do−It−Yourself (DIY) hobbies and projects. There is nothing like building or accomplishing something yourself, having it look great and exactly the way you want it, and paying less for it too. I love DIY activities as much [...]

Guest Post: Why You Would Need Digital Signage
Written by Guest Blogger: Nadia Jones Every sign has a purpose. Of course, some have more than others. The trend of using digital signage has become so rampant these days that many businesses and institutions, in my opinion, are getting them before even considering why they need them. Digital signs are awesome. But there’s nothing [...]

Advertise Me at the Digital Signage World 2011
advertise me has showcased their digital signage solutions at the Digital Signage World 2011. The event was held over two days (9th & 10th June 2011) at Hall 1 at Darling Harbour Exhibition Center Sydney Australia. The Digital Signage World 2011 is the second digital signage event that has been held in Australia and is [...]

Weekend Fun: Digital Signage on Bikes? What the?
I just stumbled across an image of a bike with digital screens. Is this real or is it fake? Here’s the picture: If it is real, here’s a list of my concerns: theft – now it gives thieves more of a reason to steal your bike… they now will get a free screen what happens [...]

Tutorial: How to update your digital signage player firmware
Here’s a quick tutorial on how to update the firmware on your Cayin digital signage player. It is web based so it’s pretty easy and straight forward. In this particular example, we’re upgrading the Cayin player model WEB4 from version 1.0 to 1.5 (U11436). This new firmware version introduces several new features such as the [...]

Do you really need to a reason to have digital signage?
Let’s keep this simple, the only reason why you should install digital signage for your business is because everyone else is doing it. Yes, that’s my blog post for today. Short and simple. © AdvertiseMe.com.au for Digital Signage Blog, 2011. | Permalink | No comment | Post tags: Digital Business, digital signage, Reason

Guest Post Digital Signage: Connecting Communities with Digital Signage Networks
Written by Guest Blogger: Kelly Johnson With DVRs giving us the ability to skip TV commercials, newspaper readership declining and a feeling of bombardment from online ads, advertisers are getting creative. Communities around the country are finding a fresh, new way to target potential customers through digital signage network advertising. This medium is more targeted, [...]

Digital Signage Job at Dell ? Inside Sales Account Management
Dell in North America is looking to fill an Inside Sales Account Management position at their North America. The Scope of the position is as follows: Individual contributors responsible for selling Dell?s printer, projector and digital signage solutions, to new and existing customers in Federal. I didn’t realise that Dell had their own digital signag [...]

DOOH = Digital Out Of Home vs Digital Signage ? who cares
Before we first started our company advertise me – we didn’t have a clue what the industry was called and the different terminologies that was used to describe this booming industry. Back then, the idea of having advertisements  or content such as menus, images, videos, weather feeds, and text displayed on digital screens was still [...]

Guest Post Digital Signage: How to Get It and Why It Should Be Utilized
Written by Guest Blogger: Bryan Cochand Communication is crucial to any type of business, but choosing the right way to communicate can be challenging. digital signage ? a term for publicly displaying important information and announcements on a large plasma, LED, or LCD screen ? is a cutting−edge method for businesses or organizations to get [...]