Four Winds’ interactive GoBoards now in 400-plus Marriotts November 8, 2011 by Dave Haynes Denver’s Four Winds Interactive has quietly built up a nice business with Courtyard by Marriott for the big GoBoard interactive displays you’ll find in the hotel chain’s lobbies. There are now GoBoards in almost 400 U.S. locations, and the latest version of the software driving the screens, announced today, adds some interesting new wrinkles. The …
ADFLOW strikes retail marketing deal with subsidiary of CPG giant Acosta November 8, 2011 by Dave Haynes ADFLOW Health Networks has done what looks like a very nice little deal to have its personal health stations – blood pressure monitors gone digital – co-marketed by a marketing company with a very deep reach into US pharmacies and grocers. The strategic partnership is with FrontLine Marketing, which provides solutions for front-end, pharmacy, and …
rAVe: Pro flat panel display market up 29% this year, says new report November 7, 2011 by rave Year on year growth in the professional flat panel display sector is at nearly 29 per cent, according to new research from Futuresource Consulting. The pure pro display market experienced quarter-on-quarter growth of close to 6 percent in Q3, and volume sales for the year so far is at 454,000 units, Combining pro displays with …
Giant Windows Phone turns on in NYC’s Herald Square November 7, 2011 by Dave Haynes Microsoft has a big Windows Phone event today in New York and as part of that – and presumably sticking around for a few weeks – the software company has erected a giant six-storey high handset at Herald Square. Reports NextWeb: This morning, Microsoft posted a video to its YouTube account to show how the …
HP’s new Photon Engine to paint giant 3D surfaces November 7, 2011 by Dave Haynes HP Labs, the computing giant’s central research arm, has announced a new product that allows vivid 3D images to be painted on what it describes as building-sized surfaces. “The Photon Engine paints any sized surface with precise dots of light to create a vivid way to visualize enterprise data in 2-D and 3-D,” says Carlos …
DPAA to help run advertising summit at DSE 2012 November 7, 2011 by Dave Haynes Digital Signage Expo has worked a partnership with the Digital Place-Based Advertising Association that will see the DPAA active involved in the programming for a full-day “Advertising Summit” at next year’s trade show in Lost Wages. The event will run on Tuesday, March 6, a day ahead of the show floor opening and the same day …
Nike lights up 1,404-image interactive wall in Portland flagship store November 7, 2011 by Dave Haynes My Preset Group partner Pat Hellberg sent me a note, some pix and video from the new Nike Portland store, which has what looks to be a pretty slick and innovative interactive video wall. On the mezzanine level of the flagship store that JUST opened in the city’s downtown, at the top of the stairs, is …
Latest Ronin financials show company finally cash-flow positive, BUT … November 4, 2011 by Dave Haynes The latest financials from Wireless Ronin Technologies are a seriously mixed bag. Revenue hit a company record, and after many years the company finally had a cash-flow positive quarter. But sales also dropped by 25% this quarter, and the company also lost yet more money. Working capital is getting down to a relatively small number. …
Asics does slick digital domination wall in NYC subway station November 4, 2011 by Dave Haynes In the traditional out of home business, an ad campaign that pretty much takes over an environment is called a domination campaign. This is something of a digital domination program put together at the Columbus Circle subway station in New York. Inwindow Outdoor is known primarily for doing hybrid digital and graphic print programs on …
DPAA media summit coverage: agency CEOs weigh in November 4, 2011 by Dave Haynes Several posts are up on sister site, DigitalOOH.biz, with the extended points of view on the planning and selling process from three CEOs of big New York-based agencies such as Horizon, Targetcast and Kinetic Americas. What they have to say is pretty interesting. Anyone who sells in this space and visits agencies would benefit from …
