Vengo Media Network Partners with TransitScreen to Bring DOOH Media to TransitScreen Clients
Vengo Media Network, the leading place-based marketing tech platform offering digital out of home advertising (DOOH), announced its partnership with TransitScreen, the leading provider of real-time transit information via large format digital screens.
Moderne Ventures Announces Newest Passport Class: Nine Early-Stage Companies to Undergo Six-Month Industry Immersion Program to Position Them For Growth
Moderne Ventures, a venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies that are innovating multi-trillion dollar markets including real estate, finance, insurance and home services, today announced its fourteenth class, surpassing 100 companies in the program to date.
Innovative Technology Providers Push Retail Industry to Embrace the Future: First-of-its-kind ISG Provider Lens™ report looks at retail tech start-ups solving long-standing industry challenges.
A group of small companies is prompting the retail industry to adopt innovative new technologies that are solving long-standing industry challenges, according to a new ISG Provider Lens™ report published today by Information Services Group (ISG) (Nasdaq: III), a leading global technology research and advisory firm.
Vengo Media Network Partners With Gallery Media Group To Launch Industry-leading Digital-first Content To Audiences In The Real World
Vengo Media Network, the leading place-based marketing tech platform, announced its content partnership with Gallery Media Group, bringing its leading online brands PureWow and ONE37pm into the real world and onto big screens.
Michael Maas, CEO of AMI Entertainment Network, Joins Vengo Labs as Chairman of the Board
Vengo Labs, the leading placed-based marketing tech platform, that includes a network of interactive kiosks and digital out-of-home (DOOH) screens, today announced the appointment of Michael Maas, the CEO of AMI Entertainment Network, as Chairman of the Board.
Vengo Launches Digital Media Platform for In-Store Advertising, Partners with National Entertainment Network
Vengo, the leader in digital kiosk technology, today announced the launch of its Digital-out-of-Home (DOOH) media platform for retail marketers and advertisers, partnering with National Entertainment Network (NEN), the premier national entertainment kiosk provider in the US, as its first platform partner.
The MTA Rolls Out PPE Vending Machines In Select Subway Stations
The MTA announced they will be deploying “a dozen vending machines at 10 subway stations allowing customers to buy Covid-19 personal protective equipment (PPE).” The machines, part of a pilot program, will offer face masks, gloves, hand sanitizer, and sanitizing wipes.
Vending Machines for Masks and Hand Sanitizer Pop Up in NYC Subway
Starting today, you will come across vending machines in the New York City subway selling PPE equipment for transit-goers like masks, hand sanitizers, gloves, and sanitizing wipes.
MTA Pilots PPE Vending Machine In Atlantic Avenue Station
The MTA is piloting a dozen new vending machines at major transit hubs starting today, the agency announced.
At 10 stations, including Atlantic Avenue – Barclays Center in Brooklyn, credit card-carrying travelers will be able to purchase personal protective equipment (PPE) that will enable them to comply with regulations in place regarding COVID-19 precautions – reusable face masks, gloves, hand sanitizer, and sanitizing wipes.
The Evolution of Sampling: Retail Refined
In a post-COVID world, sampling will be a new experience. The evolution will be solved by the digitization of vending led by a curated consumer journey. In this episode, host Melissa Gonzalez speaks with Marci Weisler, Chief Commerical Officer of Vengo Labs, a leading digital marketing and retail tech company connecting brands and consumers in the places they go by combining media, product sampling and retail.
Hands Off: the future of beauty retail and product sampling is already here
As the world watches and waits for the Coronavirus recovery to begin, tech makers, beauty retailers, and multinationals are innovating contactless sampling and selling strategies.
Vengo Offers End-to-End Contactless Sampling and Transactions
Vengo, the leader in digital kiosk technology, is launching the first end-to-end contactless sampling solution for a post-COVID-19 world. Vengo has adapted its programs to provide solutions to both brands and consumers in new ways that address preferences that promote wellness and safety.
How physical retail provides opportunities for consumer outreach
Only a small minority of consumers these days are brand loyal according to a recent McKinsey report. Most consumers prefer to be in “shopping around” mode instead. Add to that the waning influence of TV advertising. Against this backdrop, it’s clear that brand and retail marketers are challenged and need to change up their game. In a world in which TV advertising has lost much of its power, innovative retailers and brands have an opportunity to command consumers’ attention through integrated marketing initiatives that include digital experiences and product sampling.
Oars & Alps selects Vengo Labs kiosks to drive product sampling, customer analytics
Oars & Alps, a direct-to-consumer men’s natural skin care company, has selected Vengo Labs’ interactive digital kiosks to drive awareness and engagement with consumers as it continues to expand its brand recognition, according to a press release.
Oars + Alps teamed with Vengo Labs to provide physical sampling of its products and gather digital analytics. The Chicago-based brand used Vengo’s network to provide interactive sampling experiences in 100 locations across New York City gyms and co-working spaces, including WeWork.
Retail Focus Podcast
A few big news stories headline our show, including Walmart’s continued rollout of robotics for both the back and front of the store, and Gap calling off their planned split of Old Navy. We also discuss Amazon’s backtrack regarding FedEx Ground, and an investigation at Best Buy. Our interview guest is Marci Weisler, Chief Commercial Officer of Vengo Labs, who discusses bringing retail to non-traditional retail locations and the future of in-store sampling as a retail marketing tool.
CapGemini: Smart Stores Report
Determine your automation operating model There are three key elements to designing an effective automation operating model. 1. Identify a centralized automation owner. Automation initiatives in retail stores can cross multiple functions, from supply chain to customer experience, and it is critical to view the initiatives from a global perspective with a single owner. Marci Weisler, chief commercial officer at Vengo Labs, provider of interactive digital kiosks, which enable data-driven in-store sampling programs and unattended retail, says: “Retailers often have multiple ad hoc and siloed automation initiatives being developed across functions. However, what is really needed is crossteam collaboration across the different groups.”
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Vitamin Shoppe Adds Data-Driven, In-Store Sampling
The physical and digital worlds continue to merge in retail, and now one retailer is moving some of that action into its stores.
The Vitamin Shoppe is adding interactive, digital kiosks to add data analytics to customer sampling.
The first store using the technology from Vengo Labs is in New Jersey, with plans to add at least 10 more stores by the end of the month.
The Vitamin Shoppe Brings Data-Driven Product Sampling To Innovation Stores
As part of The Vitamin Shoppe’s launch of its Innovation stores, the retailer has sought to reach one of its primary goals: to help “demystify” the wellness space and re-establish the direction of its brick-and-mortar footprint. In addition to incorporating on-demand digital product guides and access to an “Only Me” personalized supplement service, The Vitamin Shoppe has implemented an interactive digital kiosk from Vengo designed to engage consumers and trial new products, enabling the retailer to offer an in-store product sampling option.
Vengo Labs Expands Retail Footprint, Supercharging In-Store Sampling With Digital Deliver and Data
Vengo Labs, the leading retail and marketing tech company that connects digital media and physical products, today announced its retail sector expansion with the launch of data-driven sampling initiatives at The Vitamin Shoppe (VSI). Using Vengo’s interactive digital kiosks that engage consumers and drive trial of new products, retailers can now, for the first time, add data and analytics to the sampling experience.
Tying Attribution To OOH Sampling: Vengo Labs’ Marci Weisler
Marci Weisler (no relation, though we tried to figure it out), chief commercial officer, Vengo Labs, works for a company billed as a “retail and marketing tech company that is reimagining how brands connect with consumers.” Marci noted that this technology “bridges the gap between digital and real world experiences by combining retail with DOOH media and product sampling.”
Best Vendors Founder Billy Weisman Joins Vengo Labs In Advisory Role
Vengo Labs announced that Billy Weisman, the founder of Best Vendors Management, has joined the company in an advisory role. New York City-based Vengo Labs is a marketing technology company that engages consumers with digital vending machines by combining digital out-of-home media, product sampling and retail.
Vengo, maker of touch-screen vending machines, just collected 7 million in fresh equity funding.
Vengo, a six-year-old, Bethpage, New York-based startup that makes touchscreen vending machines for a wide variety of uses and clients, has raised $7 million in new equity funding led by Arcade Beauty, a manufacturer of beauty samples.
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Destini Partners With Vengo To Deliver Product Sampling Through 1,000+ Interactive Vending Machines
Destini, the leading product-locator and store level intelligence platform for CPG brands across the U.S. and Canada, announces its partnership with Vengo, Inc., the nation’s leading interactive vending machine and sampling network with more than 1,000 locations across gyms, colleges, hotels and corporate offices. Destini will offer CPG brands digital media and sampling campaign opportunities targeting hard to reach consumers near retailers selling those products.
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Unattended Retail Works Out At The Gym
Fitness centers are all about working out. However, when it comes to retail in those spaces, it doesn’t always work out.
Everybody knows time is money. For businesses, space is money too, and if they don’t allocate it strategically, it can hurt rather than help their bottom line. Retail at the gym may look like a smart business move from the outside, but it often ends up eating more space and effort than it’s worth.
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To Expand Access to Emergency Contraception, Some Colleges Try Vending Machines
Some universities are installing vending machines where students can purchase emergency contraception, an effort to remove barriers to and anxiety surrounding products like Plan B.
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Innovative College Vending Machines Will Feature a Digital Ad Network
College students on some 45 campuses this fall will notice wall-mounted vending machines that sell a variety of products. But what will likely stick out the most are the digital ads streaming on the machines from the likes of Hershey, Kiehl’s and Think Jerky.
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Vengo Labs announced that its digital vending units will now be part of Vistar Media’s OOH inventory
Relevant video and interactive advertisements will be pushed out in real-time from Vistar’s network to individual vending machines, based on location and demographic preferences of the advertiser.
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How this ‘Shark Tank’ entrepreneur negotiated hard for a $2 million deal with Kevin O’Leary and Lori Greiner
Vengo Labs founding CEO Brian Shimmerlik not only had the confidence to demand that “Shark Tank” investors Kevin O’Leary and Lori Greiner adjust their joint offer before he would accept their $2 million, he had the tact to pull it off.
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Shark Tank: Kevin O’Leary and Lori Greiner Buy Into Millennial Firm Revolutionizing Vending Machines
If a digital billboard and a vending machine really loved each other and had a baby, it would look like a Vengo — the revolutionary brainchild of 32-year-old Brian Shimmerlik. His wall-mounted, flat-screen, touch-operated computer displays ads and dispenses anything from candy bars to lipstick to USB cords
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Brands Acting on Impulse to Fill the In-Store Checkouts Void
Since January, Hershey has been selling Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups and Ice Breakers mints in small, high-tech Vengo vending machines in spots such as shared office spaces in New York. “It’s exceeded all of our expectations,” said Bethany Bauer, Hershey’s senior manager of pay point experience.
David Tisch, Brad Feld, Gary Vaynerchuk & Others Put $1 Million Into Vengo, The Mini Vending Machines From TaxiTreats Maker
The startup won the City of New York’s “NYC Next Idea 2012” contest for that idea back in March 2012 and had a working prototype built by September…
Interview with CEO Brian Shimmerlik of Vengo Labs
Since completing a successful $2 million Series A round of funding, a large part of which was raised on SeedInvest, Brian Shimmerlik, founder and CEO of Vengo labs, has been busy steering the software and media company through exciting growth and expanded production of its interactive advertising and vending machine.”
Vengo Labs Raises $2M To Take Its Digital Ad/Mini Vending Machines Beyond NYC
Vengo Labs, NYC-based makers of mini vending machines selling everything from chewing gum to mini speakers, which also doubles as an ad network, have raised $2 million in funding to expand their business to new markets…
Vengo Vending Machines Help Brands Boost Impulse Sales
Through the interactive vending machines, brands such as Dentyne, Snapple and Trident are displaying promotional content for specific products. Doubling as an advertisement network, Vengo gives businesses a chance to recapture customer attention by delivering promotional videos and other HD media.