RMG Exec Meetings Must Be Seriously Weird February 20, 2014 by Super User Updated The senior management meetings at RMG Networks must be so odd because of the wildly different product directions that company took on when it acquired Symon in the lead-up to going public. On the one hand, you have an Out Of Home media company selling into airline seat-backs, shopping mall food courts and packaged …
Disruption and Denial – thoughts after DSE 2014 February 18, 2014 by Mark Hemphill Guest Post: Dana Buys, PageMan I just finished up attending Digital Signage Expo 2014 at the Sands Exhibition Centre in Las Vegas. It was my first visit to DSE and I think the timing was really good. No shortage of really big screens, super high res 4K screens and video walls all over! Las …
DSE 2014 Parting Impressions February 16, 2014 by Super User I’m not overly delighted to have left the bright blue skies and warmth of Las Vegas for the gloom and endless snow of Southern Ontario, but 5 days of DSE week kicked my butt once again. It was time to get out, go home, and get some sleep and rest the back and feet. I …
DSE 2014 Awards: The Winning Content Projects February 16, 2014 by Super User Here’s the Content Award winners from last week at DSE. As with the project awards, it is good to see some entries and winners who are from outside the usual suspects. Award Arts, Entertainment & Recreation Gold – Niles Creative Group, for content created for Freedom Hall, George W. Bush Presidential Center Silver – Unified …
DSE 2014 Awards: The Winning Apex Projects February 15, 2014 by Super User Earlier this week at Digital Signage Expo the Apex & Content Awards were handed out at the annual dinner. What’s impressive this year was the variety of entrants and winners. Whereas there have been some past winners who got awards seemingly because they were among a handful of entrants, it looks like a LOT of different …
Day 1 At DSE 2014 February 13, 2014 by Super User Out the door at 8 AM, back in the hotel room at 12:30 AM. No time to write. Booked all day. Maybe will be posting from the plane Friday. Generally, quite busy. Everything busy, brighter, thinner, easier, etc, etc. Very little you would look at and think, That’s different or amazing or whatever. Lots of …
Great Night At The Annual Preset Group Mixer February 12, 2014 by Super User Another Preset Mixer is in the can and the reviews last night were all good. We had 317 registered and 311 showed up. Now, there were a bunch of no-shows but there were, in turn, dozens of people who just kinda showed up. That could have been a problem because we were understanding the …
BroadSign Plugs Digital OOH Clients Into Vistar’s Programmatic Buying Platform February 12, 2014 by Super User BroadSign has launched a new product called BroadSign Connect that ‘s effectively a direct connector with Vistar Media’s programmatic media buying solution. Digital OOH networks running on BroadSign’s ad-centric platform can now opt-in and allow unsold ad inventory to be bought by planners via the Vistar, which has in the past year gained a lot of …
Monster Media’s New Patent May Cramp Social Media Style Of Many SW Vendors February 10, 2014 by Super User Most of the chatter in the last 2-3 years about digital signage has been about the so-called trolls out there that are mostly or entirely in the business of filing legal actions and generating revenues from pre-court settlements. But not all the disputes and IP issues involve trolls. A company that’s been part of the …
Experiential Can’t Be Just A Buzzword: Denys Lavigne February 6, 2014 by Super User High-impact digital visual projects in corporate and public venues are quickly growing commonplace, but they only truly work when they deliver an experience that respects key parameters, says Denys Lavigne, the President of creative agency Arsenal Media, looking ahead to a couple of speaking gigs at DSE. “Experiential can’t be just a buzzword,” says Lavigne. …
