CRI Buys Allure Global From Christie, Less Than Three Years After Christie Acquisition September 24, 2018 by Super User Christie Digital Systems seems to be going back to its core business – having wound down the digital signage creative shop Arsenal Media (which become Christie 360) and now selling off Allure Global, the cinema and QSR-focused digital signage solutions provider. Allure’s new masters are the guys at Creative Realities, also known as CRI. In …
Cineplex Wins Digital Menu Boards Deal For European Subway Shops September 19, 2018 by Super User Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media (aka CDM) has been engaged by the European wing of Subway to “design, deploy, support and operate a network of digital menu boards at Subway locations across Europe.” The digital signage wing of Cineplex, the dominant movie chain in Canada, is providing strategic creative content, consulting services and marketing initiatives to Subway, …
DPAA Sets Draft Speaker List For Video Everywhere Summit In NYC Oct. 30th September 17, 2018 by Super User The Digital Place-Based Advertising Association (DPAA) has released a draft list of speakers for its annual Video Everywhere Summit in New York City, on Oct. 30th. It’s a full day of presentations and panels on “multi-screen engagement, mobile/location data and the role of DOOH advertising in today’s fast evolving media ecosystem.” This year’s speaker roster …
Tripleplay Using Famed Football Grounds As User Group Meet-up Site September 13, 2018 by Super User User group meetings are not something I normally write about, but the UK software provider Tripleplay has arranged for a very cool venue for its annual meet-up with end-users and partner vendors – Stamford Bridge, the home of pro football (soccer) team Chelsea FC. The central London venue is a client site. Says Tripleplay: Our engineering …
Moving LED Ball Cloud Fills Canopy At Guangzhou Airport DOOH Media Installation September 13, 2018 by Super User The new terminal 2 at Guangzhou Baiyun Airport in China (Guanzhou is in the same mega-city region as Shenzhen) has a set of very impressive digital OOH and ambient media pieces in called Cultural Sky Plaza, located in the center of the pre-security check-in area. The idea of the main piece, it seems, is to …
Stratacache CEO Expects Headcount To Top 1,000 By Early 2019 September 11, 2018 by Super User There’s a bunch of interesting nuggets of information in a local paper’s interview with Stratacache CEO Chris Riegel – most notably that he expects to be north of 1,000 employees within a year. Talking to the Dayton Daily News, Riegel says he’s now at 750, with 320 of them in Dayton. About 90 employees work …
First Buffalo Digital Signage Industry Mixer Set For Tuesday Night September 10, 2018 by Super User People in the Buffalo, NY-area active in digital signage are getting together tomorrow night in that city for a networking mixer, which I THINK was pulled together by Kevin Cosbey, who does biz dev for Arrow (Seneca). The event is from 6 to 9 pm at EXPO Market, 617 Main Street, in the central district. The first …
DSF Planning Breakfast Education Series For Toronto September 10, 2018 by Super User The Toronto digital signage community is well known for getting together for drinks, but now they’re doing breakfasts, as well. The Digital Signage Federation (DSF) is in the organizing stages of a series of educational breakfast sessions to be held in the Greater Toronto Area. The sessions are intended to provide local members with education, …
X2O Media Takes Old Founder To Court, Alleging Trade Secrets Used For His New Company September 1, 2018 by Super User Digital signage management software firm X2O Media is going after its old CEO in a Las Vegas court, claiming his new firm has misappropriated trade secrets. X2O is also claiming, as reflected in filings with the US District Court in Nevada, breach of contract and trademark infringement by Xentiant Technologies and its founder David Wilkins. …
Cancer Survivor Uses Times Square LED Board In Search For Kidney Donor September 1, 2018 by Super User A Long Island, NY man is using donated time on one of the big LED billboards in Times Square to pitch his need for a new kidney. Bladder cancer survivor Marc Weiner lost both kidneys in treatment, and now requires dialysis to stay alive. His wife’s friend donated time on a 5,000 square foot billboard on …
