Pixels, Places & Purpose examines how brands get created, experienced, and proven in an AI-driven world. Hosts Manolo Almagro - Chief Innovation Officer at Marks, A Propelis Company x David Title - Partner at Bravo Media dig into the questions reshaping the industry: what AI can actually deliver, how creative gets produced at scale, where brand experience is headed and how to prove it worked. Expect real data over vendor hype and honest takes built for industry execs who'd rather build what works than chase what's loud—from two people doing the work, not just talking about it.
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David Title, Bravo Media, Manny Almagro, Marks - A Propelis Company
12 to 25 times cheaper than your creative team, same quality — that's the pitch. The catch: AI can spin up 400 versions of an idea, but it can't have the idea.
A consultancy's report claims agentic AI now matches human creative content, campaigns, research at a fraction of the cost. David and Manny treat it as exactly what it is a pitch from a company that sells the platforms and run it through their three-question test: what's the goal, why would it work, and how would you know? Then they draw a hard line around the phrase "agentic creative."
In this episode:
The 400-variations trick AI is great at versioning a human idea across 15 markets, useless at originating it
"Industrial mediocrity" when every agency prompts the same models off the same briefs, everyone ships the same safe middle.
Why nobody would queue for an AI-made Met , the Budweiser frogs wouldn't survive being machine-made-
Agentic shopping, doubted — do product pages still matter, and does anyone actually want to shop by prompt?
Big questions: Would you hand the creative vision of your business over to AI? And can craft be automated?
Tell us at pixelsplaceandpurpose@gmail.com, and follow Pixels, Place & Purpose wherever you listen. Hosted by David Title Partner at Bravo Media and Manny Almagro, Chief Innovation Officer at Marks, A Propelis Company
22 Jun 2026
$25 Million Buys the Screen. Now What?
$25 million buys 20,000 square feet of outdoor LED — about the wingspan of a 737. The hard part isn't the wall. It's what plays at 2pm on a nothing-special Wednesday.
Digital Signage Today reports OCVibe — the development from the family behind the Anaheim Ducks — is working with Daktronics on massive displays across a 100-acre district at the Honda Center, opening early 2027. David and Manny put the press release through the three-question test: what's the goal, what goes on the screens, and how does anyone know it worked?
In this episode:
Wayfinding, commerce, shared moments: three jobs, three stakeholders, one surface — who decides?
Why $25 million is just the wall — content at this scale is a seven-to-eight-figure annual line item nobody puts in the press release
The "nothing-special Wednesday" problem, and why it's the real test of the investment
How traffic, dwell, and attribution let a landlord prove value to tenants and advertisers — or fail to
Big question: Are giant LED screens at venues like this worth it — and if so, how do you define the value, measure it, and make an investment this size actually return?
Tell us at pixelsplaceandpurpose@gmail.com (mailto:pixelsplaceandpurpose@gmail.com), and follow Pixels, Places & Purpose wherever you listen.
Hosted by David Title, Partner at Bravo Media and Manny Almagro, Chief Innovation Officer at Marks, A Propelis Company.
22 Jun 2026
Nobody Voted for Bigger Screens
We asked what defines the next era of digital signage. 23 industry insiders voted. Nobody picked bigger screens.
The poll offered four futures: larger displays, stronger content strategy, experience-led system design, or context-aware environments. Content strategy took it at 48 percent — David's pick — while Manny went context-aware. The real question hanging over the results: why does an industry that already knows what it should be doing keep not doing it?
In this episode:
The chicken-and-egg of big display projects — who do you even call first?
Intentionality: no clear intent, no KPIs — just expensive aesthetics
Why most installs run backwards — hardware first, experience bolted on later
The sensor stack — computer vision, IoT, and POS signals that make a screen actually aware of the room
Big questions: If you had to design a brand-new display experience from scratch, what's your very first move? And where does your org sit today — leading with hardware, or shifting to content and context — and what finally forced the change?
Tell us at pixelsplaceandpurpose@gmail.com (mailto:pixelsplaceandpurpose@gmail.com), and follow Pixels, Places & Purpose wherever you listen.
Hosted by David Title, Partner at Bravo Media and Manny Almagro, Chief Innovation Officer at Marks, A Propelis Company.
22 Jun 2026
Attention Isn't Attribution
A 20-foot gesture-reactive LED wall greets you at Nespresso's new NYC flagship. Swirl your finger, the latte art swirls back. Does any of it sell a single pod?
David spotted a LinkedIn post on the display, plus a pointed take from Dave Haynes of Sixteen:Nine calling it expensive digital wallpaper. The hosts weigh the earned-media halo and the TikTok factor against the harder math — dwell, attribution, and what's still happening on day sixty.
In this episode:
Press and influencer coverage is real value — but attention still isn't attribution
The content time bomb: plan for day two and day sixty, not just opening day
A/B testing a giant wall — swirls vs. sale offers, and what each actually tells you
Why measuring the whole store — tasting bar, classes, baristas — beats measuring the screen alone
Big questions: Is a beautiful store experience that can't prove ROI a marketing win or a business failure? And does swirling your finger on a giant screen actually make you want more coffee?
Tell us at pixelsplaceandpurpose@gmail.com (mailto:pixelsplaceandpurpose@gmail.com), and follow Pixels, Places & Purpose wherever you listen.
Hosted by David Title of Bravo Media and Manny Almagro, Chief Innovation Officer at Marks, A Propelis Company.
22 Jun 2026
Smile — Wegmans Just Scanned Your Face
Wegmans is scanning faces at the door - and all it took to spark the backlash was the sign the law requires. A New York story about Wegmans using facial scanning to flag shoppers previously tied to misconduct kicks off a conversation about the cameras behind the screens.
David and Manny separate biometric surveillance from the anonymous computer vision most retailers already run, then ask what sensing actually helps content decisions in hotels, campuses, and stores that aren't ad networks.
In this episode:
Compliant isn't comfortable: the signage is legally required, but there's no opt-out and no word on data retention. A surprising large number of US retailers already layer computer vision onto their loss prevention store cameras - tracking shapes and paths, not faces
Newer tech like mmWave, can track dwell time, even heart rate: measuring engagement without capturing identity to see what actually changes behavior.
Big question: What would the sign at Wegmans have to say to make you stop shopping there? Where is your personal privacy tipping point for what stores and displays can know about you?
Tell us at pixelsplaceandpurpose@gmail.com, and follow Pixels, Place & Purpose wherever you listen. Hosted by David Title of Bravo Media and Manny Almagro, Chief Innovation Officer at Marks, A Propelis Company
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