Multi-Platform Media Program Drives 109M Tweets, Texts, Shares … In One Day February 6, 2014 by Super User This is pretty impressive in terms of the potential impact of multiple mediums on an awareness and fundraising campaign. The Bell Let’s Talk program that ran last week in Canada – focused on mental health issues – generated 109,451,718 tweets, texts, calls and shares in one day. Repeat: one day. The program included social media incorporated …
Glasses-Free 3D Goes 4K February 6, 2014 by Super User I was wondering if next week’s Digital Signage Expo would have any companies there still trying to get the industry interested in glasses-free 3D – a tech that seems to move people quickly from amazed to ambivalent. Turns out there is, and it’s a bit different. Buffalo-based pro AV distributor Stampede Presentation Products will be …
Novra Technologies Buys Wegener, Westport Research In Consolidation Play February 6, 2014 by Super User Novra Technologies, a TSX Venture Exchange listed Canadian company that does datacasting, IP-TV and digital signage, has acquired a pair of US companies it what’s described as a consolidation play. Novra, based in chilly Winnipeg, Manitoba, has signed term sheets to acquire Wegener Corporation of Johns Creek, Georgia and Westport Research Associates, Inc. of Raytown, …
DSE Disrupted Tech Talk Approaching Sold Out February 5, 2014 by Super User The Digital Signage Expo team tells me the seminar on Disrupted Technology that I’m chairing/moderating/referee’ing a week today ion Las Vegas is approaching sold out. There were 100 registrants as of today and the room can take a dozen or so more. So … let’s sell it out!!! The session is Wed. Feb. 12 at …
NRF Or Not In 2015?: What The Numbers Suggest February 5, 2014 by Super User The National Retail Federation have put out the numbers on its big annual trade show last month in New York. Some vendors I know have been asking me if it is a show they need to consider being at, and my answer was a nice, waffling, “It depends …” It really does based on your …
Eight Years Of Sixteen:Nine February 5, 2014 by Super User It was several years ago, a few into writing this blog, when my then-teenaged daughter tabled her concern that her Dad was putting something out on the Internet called 69. “No-no,” I reassured her. “16:9. It’s a number related to flat-screen aspect ratios, I said, and how a screen is …” And then she was …
Preset Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Multiband February 4, 2014 by Super User Last but by no means least in our series of profiles of Preset Mixer Sponsors is Multiband, which in very broad strokes does digital signage deployments across the US and into Canada. I asked Matt Weldon, the National Sales Director for Multiband Subscriber Services, to readers and particularly Mixer attendees an idea of what his …
Preset Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Diversified Media Group (DMG) February 4, 2014 by Super User Diversified Media Group is a loyal sponsor of the annual Preset Group Mixer, and has been helping buy the cocktails for several years now. They have been aggressively but quietly growing the company and taking on many of the biggest projects that hit the digital signage eco-system radar. Preset has worked on projects that involved …
Preset Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Capital Networks February 4, 2014 by Super User I go back 15 years now with Bil Trainor and his crew at Capital Networks, most of them the same people. Loyal bunch, which says a lot about the company and the guy who runs it. Capital Networks is a Toronto-area provider of dynamic digital signage software solutions for digital signage, digital display networks, digital …
Seenspire Heading To Vegas For Three Creative Awards, Less Than Year After Opening Up February 4, 2014 by Super User I’m looking forward to meeting a bunch of people next week that I know by phone, e-mail and Skype, but have never talked to in person. One of them is Sam Mekonen, a co-founder of Seenspire. It’s a Belgian company that does a really interesting, somewhat rare blend of automated content feeds for signage networks, …
