Big OOH platform adds digital through signagelive integration April 7, 2011 by Super UserOn the heels of the VUKUNET-DOmedia partnership announcement comes word that a very well-established company on the out of home side of media management has done full integration with a digital signage platform. UK-based Key Systems has integrated its OOH media management software platforms with signagelive, which means a new tool called Digital Director allows …
Onestop's high school screen network back in discussion April 7, 2011 by Super UserThe digital screen network being pitched by Onestop Media (now owned by Pattison Outdoor) is still under active consideration by the Toronto District School Board, and was the subject of lengthy discussion last night at a board meeting. The board looked at a couple of motions, reports the Toronto Star, concerning the concept to put …
NEC decouples DS management platform from Vukunet; does partnership with DOmedia April 7, 2011 by Super UserNEC Display has gone a long way towards clarifying and advancing its Vukunet offer in the marketplace through a couple of announcements. The free VUKUNET CMS, or content management system, is now the NEC CMS. It still works with the VUKUNET platform, but it’s not part of the Vukunet family. It will now be called …
ABC does media sales deal for 7-11 Digital OOH network April 6, 2011 by Super UserFrom MediaPost: The DO marketplace is continuing to consolidate through new ad sales arrangements. Digital Display Networks reports ABC Regional Sports and Entertainment Sales will become the exclusive ad sales representative for DDN’s 7-Eleven TV network. The exclusive ad sales rep agreement will allow the 7-Eleven TV network to benefit from ABC’s existing client relationships …
CETW walking the talk, using customer engagement tools April 6, 2011 by Super UserThe Customer Engagement Technology World (aka CETW or CET World or the trade show formerly known as KioskCom) is coming up quick. Not going. Not because I don’t want to, but mostly because flights to San Fran from Toronto are freakin’ expensive for whatever reason, and rooms are definitely not at Lost Wages rates. The …
Artisan running Good, Bad and Ugly GlobalShop review April 6, 2011 by Super UserThis is interesting and quite clever. The Toronto merchandising and design firm Artisan Complete is doing a Globalshop Review on Friday, over lunch, at its studio at 331 Amber Street in Markham. We will walk you through a summary of this years Outstanding Merchandising Achievement Awards, highlighting the best design (and some bad) work from …
DPAA says sector saw 25% revenue growth in 2010 April 5, 2011 by Super UserThe Digital Place-based Advertising Association (DPAA) says number-crunching done by a third-party accounting firm suggests the digital place-based, aka Digital OOH, sector saw revenue growth in the region of 25 points in 2010. The information collected by national CPA firm Miller, Kaplan, Arase came from all DPAA members as well as other place-based ad networks. …
Rise Vision sponsoring next Toronto industry mixer. Register now. April 4, 2011 by Super UserByron Darlison and his crew at Rise Vision are the sponsors for the May 10th digital signage/digital out of home media network mixer in Toronto. Rise has been in the software business for almost 20 years and in recent years has carved out a name for itself as one of the real innovators, steadily building …
Update: sponsor for next Toronto industry mixer in place March 31, 2011 by Super UserLooks like we already have a sponsor lined up, yippee, for the May digital signage/Digital OOH industry mixer. A local company has graciously stepped up to be the host sponsor. Details to follow but first I will get EventBrite all tweaked up so we can make better use of it for registration, contacts, etc. Forget …
DSE Industry Forum sponsors filled, but still adding guests March 31, 2011 by Super UserThe DSE Industry Forum set for mid-May in the Tampa-St. Pete area has sold out its 16 sponsor slots and is now in the throes of rounding out its list of attendees willing to speed-date with vendors in return for a nice golf and relax getaway. The sponsor list is heavy on the display side …