Publicize or perish
is an age-old truism in industry. And nothing is more obvious in the fact that
even household benchmark names still use millions of pounds advertising. Look
at the big fizzy drink company, the beer commercials. Until cigarette publicity
was stopped, the various brands still had massive publicity budgets... who can
forget John Player Special of Benson & Hedges ads.
And why did they
keep them up when smokers were attractive much addicted to smoking and smokers,
like beer drinkers and even consumers of fizzy drinks, are usually fiercely
loyal to their favorite brand? For the simple reason that it was found that if
they stopped their sales started slipping
The next thing
about promotion is, given that one has to promote, what is the best medium?
Time and time again it has been shown that prime time TV yields good results,
but that is very expensive. A 20-second slot just before or during the evening
news bulletins and the major soap shows cost the promoter a great deal, and for
it to be effective, it has to be a campaign that runs for a few weeks.
It also has to be
for a detailed general product, like ice cream or freshly baked bread. It is no
good advertising specific or esoteric products. It is no good publicity blue
widgets for use in acme fire engines as just about no one has an acre fire a
mechanism so will ever need a blue widget.
But the truth is
that TV, especially moving pictures draw consideration and, even at a
subliminal level, a message is received.
So we now come to
video walls. First seen in enclosed spaces like Airport terminals and between
levels in shopping malls a video wall consists of a medley of high grade,
high-resolution LED-backlit screens. The controlling program can be made to
send each screen a dissimilar message, or the same message.
Each the screen may
at any stage be displaying an identical message to the other screens on
exhibitor may be changed so that it is, in fact, showing only a small part of
the display and the video wall, viewed as a whole is display one picture made
up of all the screens put together.
This is very
effectual publicity. Shopping mall owners and areas where there is a large wall
unused but in good view of lots of passing traffic are installed and selling
promotion space.
But they can also
be used for educational purposes in school and university halls where the
programs can be made to keep the interest and the attention of the viewer who
is receiving a sort of IMAX experience where the message can be very clearly
impart.
This all fits in
with the digital signage effect which uses multimedia to pass all sorts of
messages to viewers. Ranging from information to direct promotion, from news
flashes to educational messages.
This new and very
effectual technology is just beginning new uses daily and can be installed
wherever one has an underutilized wall.
Video walls are a
new process of Digital Signage
Providers
and make the best use of new technology to promote your products. Video Walls
attract the eye as the change from a myriad of images into one maximum moving
picture.
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