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Top Digital Sign Solutions Featured by LobbyPOP

Top Digital Sign Solutions Featured by LobbyPOP

Beverage giant Coca-Cola is making the most of these Chrome devices to power an extensive digital signage system. The company opted for Chrome because it was more affordable than the existing system. Coca-Cola is keen on laying the groundwork to achieve better customer engagement. The entity is deploying these Chromebits in countless stores. Toyota is […]

Deploy a Digital Sign in 5 Minutes with Chromebit

Deploy a Digital Sign in 5 Minutes with Chromebit

This is why many digital sign CMS providers are worried their revenue streams will dry up. While some may want the granular control of dayparting and future scheduling, many clients just need an engaging sign, with the ability to change menu prices, tenant names, and the like. And now you can do all of that […]

Cloud Rendering vs. Local Rendering Protocol

Cloud Rendering vs. Local Rendering Protocol

If you have ever viewed a webpage source, you can see many scripts embedded behind the scenes. These scripts allow galleries to operate, pages to resize for mobile devices, and video to play within a player. This back end “engine” is hosted on the website’s server. Some of the “gears” allows RSS feeds to display [...]
New FDA Ruling: Menus and Vending Machine Calorie Count Requirements

New FDA Ruling: Menus and Vending Machine Calorie Count Requirements

If you work in the field of Dynamic Signage, new FDA ruling will have a positive impact. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration finalized two rules a few days before Thanksgiving (appropriately) requiring that calorie information be listed on menus and menu boards in chain restaurants, similar retail food establishments and vending machines with 20 […]

Surviving an Installation – Digital Signage Troubleshooting

Surviving an Installation – Digital Signage Troubleshooting

This is a new, regular feature of the LobbyPOP Blog, with the help of Alan C. Brawn, CTS, DSCE, and  Jonathan Brawn, CTS, DSCE, and Founders of the Dynamic Signage Certified Expert course and DSEG.org. My purpose, when I approached Alan and Jonathan for this series, was to draw attention to the ways that dynamic […]

Dynamic Signage Rising

Dynamic Signage Rising

We are excited to report again on dynamic sign services for sign industry professionals. And again, LobbyPOP® has brought their “A Game” and delivered a content software program, LobbyCaster, that makes more sense than anything we have seen to date. Allow us to explain: Sign businesses want and need to be able to allow a […]

Mid-Year (Almost) 2014 Review: Dynamic!

Mid-Year (Almost) 2014 Review: Dynamic!

Get this: We’re morphing again! Our founders said back in 2005 that the sign industry needed to get involved with dynamic signage….Today, there are a few hundred digital sign shops that have embraced dynamic signage.

Tuition: $195…. Certification, Priceless!

Tuition: $195…. Certification, Priceless!

Enter the Digital Signage Certified Expert (DSCE) program, offered by the Digital Signage Experts Group! For tens of thousands of digital sign shops across North America, differentiation needs a push. A five-star program is here now, with the only Guide Book included free. Read our review.

Part 1: CLEVR is a Clever Acronym for Digital Design

Part 1: CLEVR is a Clever Acronym for Digital Design

We mentioned in our previous post that sign industry professionals use the science of signs when creating a communications vehicle for their clients. These same principles should be applied to your dynamic digital content as well. The four considerations are known as Conspicuity, Legibility, Visibility and Readability. We like an acronym to help recall these four design factors: CLEVR. It really is more than clever…

STREAMING THE VID FANTASTIC

STREAMING THE VID FANTASTIC

Or, Taming of the Video File (Prepare for submission…) By now, you have heard of an internet web-display format known as flash video, or flv – this is the web’s most popular display format for videos, but….