
Why Choose Digital
Signage?
If your business is in the retail, entertainment or affinity
industries, digital signage can revolutionize the way you
advertise!
Retail
The focus of retail venues (i.e. video, convenience and
department stores) is usually the sale of a wide range of both
hard and soft goods. Digital signage is a way to distribute
media rich content and information to customers in high traffic
areas, without the limitations that usually accompany
traditional advertising methods. This reliable, low cost, high
impact form of advertising is currently being successfully
utilized in apparel, music, and grocery stores alike. It's what
we at ETA call AIM (agressive internal
marketing).
Entertainment
For entertainment venues serving less than 1000 customers (i.e.
bars, nightclubs and movie theatres) digital signage offers a
much more personal means of communicating your message than
traditional advertising. Screens can be placed closer to the
point of purchase, making your message easier to see and
access. Smaller venues by nature attract more of a targeted
audience. Therefore, the addition of highly-targeted digital
signage offers many opportunities to increase profit. Mass
entertainment venues which serve more than 1000 customers (i.e.
airports, theme parks and malls) can use digital signage to
provide customers with a wider range of content. Because of its
incredible reach, third party advertisers also reap the
benefits.
Affinity
Affinity venues deliver a specific and categorical set of
products and services (i.e. banks, hospitals and spas). For
this industry, digital signage can provide a very effective way
to reach the already-loyal customer with promotions, ideas and
important information. Similar to smaller entertainment venues,
digital signage in the affinity industry can be placed closer
to the point of purchase. And, because customers are already
quite familiar with the nature and type of services affinity
venues provide, the amount of third party advertising can be
minimal or heavy.
Dynamic
Signage Is Set To Explode – Will You Be Left
Behind?
Ad agencies, broadband networks, design consultants and
architects – in recent years, all have adopted digital signage
as an integral part of their business process. It is predicted
that digital signage will soon emerge as its own industry,
outdoing traditional advertising methods like print and
proprietary software in both effectiveness and short and long
term cost savings.
Let’s compare digital signage to two popular
advertising methods: printed materials and digital video
players.
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Printed Materials
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Takes weeks or months to update
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Relies on store staff to determine if and when
to show ads
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Large and colourful, but no motion or
sound
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Digital Video Players
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Content is less updated due to high production
and encoding costs
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Hardware failure possible if video formats are
incompatible, resulting in downtime
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Motion and sound get attention, but does not
allow for much dynamic content
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Digital Signage
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Content can be updated remotely on the
fly
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Signage programs run on a standard PC
environment and proof of ad runs can be
produced
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Allows for the mixture of dynamic content and
video, with the ability to add new information
as needed
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Isn’t It Time Your
Business Reaped The Benefits of Digital
Advertising?
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how digital advertising with Elapsed Time Advertising can
increase your business’s profitability and
ROI.
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