Winter and Your Outdoor Screens

Winter is a time when many devices struggle operationally. The cold weather, ice snow and prolonged darkness can make it difficult to start the car or operate machinery outside – and it can play havoc with outdoor digital signage too. Cold weather can permanently disable an outdoor screen if proper precautions  aren’t taken as condensation […]

Protection Matters – Outdoor Digital Signage

Outdoor digital signage is part of the whole digital out of home (Dooh) industry that has been rapidly expanding over the last decade. From rather meek beginnings where screens were only erected in a few retail locations, digital signage has exploded with high streets no littered with display screens and LCDs. Even outside, our high […]

Digital Signage Flexibility – Day Parting

One of the great advantages of digital signage is its flexibility. Unlike nearly any other commercial advertising method, with digital out of home, outdoor digital signage and other forms of display advertising, content can be scheduled and tailored to meet specific demographics. This scheduling ability has come from the world of television where it is […]

Outdoor Screens on the Slopes

Outdoor digital signage is becoming a popular from of advertising, marketing and branding. Many industries are implementing some sort of digital outdoor campaign but there is one area that has come as quite a surprise to outdoor AV and digital signage companies – the ski slopes. There are large number of enquiries to outdoor digital […]

Outdoor Digital Signage – more effective than TV

A recent study has highlighted the effectiveness of outdoor advertising at developing brand awareness and driving more customers to search for brands online. The research, conducted by the British Outdoor Advertising Association (OAA); research company, Millward Brown; and brand company, Mindshare, analysed advertising over five years. The study looked at 326 brands from 25 different […]

The LCD Enclosure – an Introduction

The LCD enclosure is a term that crops up quite often in the world of out of home and digital signage. In brief terms, LCD enclosures are protective weatherproof cases that allow standard or commercial grade screens to be taken outside and used as outdoor digital signage. There is, however, a lot more to the […]

When the Rains Come – Protecting Outdoor Screens in Inclement Weather

Outdoor digital signage has a multitude of uses: advertising, promotion, marketing, brand building and providing information, making it an extremely flexible, versatile, and reactive medium. There are plenty of challenges to implementing it though. The outdoor screen has to be sited in best location possible, preferably an area with the highest potential audience and that […]

LCD Enclosure – Rugged Display Use

Many of us will have a large flat screen TV in our homes. The growth of the flat panel display has allowed TVs to get bigger and yet be more manageable – weighing a fraction of the amount of the forerunner, the CRT (Cathode Ray Tube). But the increased practicality of the modern flat screen, […]

Simplifying Digital Signage

The digital out of home industry (Dooh) is quagmire of technical expressions, complicated business strategies and hardware challenges often involving multi-discipline teams of software engineers, networking specialists, AV engineers and advertisers. All this can make embarking in digital signage a complete headache and also invoke large set-up costs, the return on which may never be […]

Four Reasons for using Digital Signage in Schools

One of areas where digital signage has found a unique use is in schools, colleges and universities. Always trying to ensure it is at the forefront of technology, educators have found digital signage to be an effective way of providing key information to students, staff members and visitors. The same message can be distributed to […]