Note From The Road: Hong Kong June 2, 2014 by Super User There probably won’t be that many posts as I am waaaaaay the heck out of town – so far I just change AM to PM to figure out what time it is back home. I am in Hong Kong for a couple of meetings and some looking around, before heading to Taipei for the Digital …
Conductive Ink Makes Analog Posters Interactive May 28, 2014 by Super User How about a traditional advertising poster going interactive, without adding a screen? That’s what the brewer Beck’s has had up in cities around New Zealand this month – print posters that have conductive ink and speakers, making them playable as part of a music promotion. Described as the world’s first Playable Posters, the street-level ads …
DSrupted Digital Signage Conference: 4 of 5 Speakers Set May 27, 2014 by Super User It took a little bit, but the majority of the speaker line-up is now in place for DSrupted, the first conference focused on disruptive technology and digital signage. If you missed it, the event was announced last month and is set for Sept. 17th in Toronto. Tickets are limited to less than 200, and the …
DSE Huddling Up And Drinking That Powerful Canadian Beer June 4th in Toronto May 26, 2014 by Super User The Digital Signage Expo people are doing a mixer next week in Toronto, where it is finally warm, bordering on hot. The DSE Huddle, as they have dubbed these things, is June 4th, starting at 5:30 and running for a coupla hours at the Jack Astors’ bar and Grill up above Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square. The …
Wireless Ronin Has Tentative Deal To Merge With Unnamed Marketing Technology Firm May 16, 2014 by Super User Wireless Ronin has a non-binding letter of intent in place to merge with an unnamed private company – called a “marketing technology integrator” – and is also making moves to do another private, since the executive is now conceding the digital signage software and services is almost out of money. In SEC filings this week. …
Oxford, Cineplex Team On Ambitious, Reimagined Digital Mall Media Program May 13, 2014 by Super User Canada’s Cineplex Digital Media and Oxford Properties Group have announced a deal to create what they’re calling North America’s first place-based digital ecosystem in shopping malls. The program integrates architectural digital media, mobile technology, social media, experiential technologies, and digital media sales and analytics, “providing a first-of-its-kind opportunity to inspire shoppers and influence purchasing decisions. From …
Two Proof Of Display Products Hit Digital Signage Market On Same Day May 13, 2014 by Super User In an odd little twist, a pair of companies are making noise week in London about new products that monitor the state of digital signage networks using tech that watches the output of screens. Beatpixels is launching UpState at an NEC Showcase event while Taggalo was formally launching and pitching its own proof of display …
The Market Did NOT Like RMG’s Numbers May 8, 2014 by Super User Well, I liked what I saw Yesterday of RMG Networks new Executive Briefing Center but the market definitely did not like the latest financials released today by the software/media company. The NASDAQ-listed company closed trading today at 97 cents, down a mind-wobbling 70.61% from the previous day’s close. Normally, the company trades about 11,00 shares day …
Adobe’s New Voice App Lets Marketers Build Animated Videos For Free May 8, 2014 by Super User Adobe has released a new iPad app that lets marketers easily build narrated product and promotion videos off their tablet, for free. Called Adobe Voice, the software enables anyone with even a smidge of marketing and design sensibilities to put together animated videos that are driven by the narrated voice. Users pair up their recorded …
NYC Puts Payphone Call Out For (Ideally) Insane MediaCo May 8, 2014 by Super User New York City has issued a new RFP, looking for (probably) a media company interested in retrofitting its 1,000s of old public payphones as free WiFi hotspots. There are more than 7,000 public pay telephone installations across the five boroughs, and the pitch to potential respondents is that they can bankroll the deployment by running …
