Canadian ad giant Palmer helping guide Digital OOH firm October 13, 2011 by Dave Haynes I see a lot of press releases in a day and by necessity skip through them pretty quickly. It took a second pass through a releases late yesterday for me to pick up that, “Oh, it’s THAT Frank Palmer.” A Vancouver-Whistler company called RTOWN Communications – which has a hotel and resort in-room TV channel, …
RMG adds “business celebrity” Hayzlett to board October 12, 2011 by Dave Haynes RMG Networks have added something of a business celebrity – but one with some actual street cred – to its board of directors. Jeffrey Hayzlett is the author of the business bestseller The Mirror Test and a former CMO for Kodak. He is now CEO of The Hayzlett Group. “Jeffrey is a marketing celebrity and …
rAVe: Videotel Markets DVD Player for Digital Signage October 12, 2011 by rave Dubbed the HD2600, Videotel’s latest DVD player outputs 720p (and up-scaled 1080p) via HDMI and includes DS features such as auto starts, auto plays and auto repeats even after a power loss. This is an interesting concept for a low-cost DS system, but presents a management issue as changing content requires someone to change the …
DSE breaks out content efforts in new DS Connection portal October 12, 2011 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Expo folks have broken out their editorial efforts into a new, dedicated website called Digital Signage Connection. It took a lot longer to come together than I think was planned – seems to me this was promoted as coming real soon back at the DSE show – but the finished product is …
rAVe: InfoComm survey suggests AV economy still healthy October 12, 2011 by rave InfoComm’s October 2011 Economic Snapshot Survey indicates that the market is stable, but not quite as rosy as AV dealers and design consultants predicted. The most recent InfoComm Performance Index (IPI) is 68.0, indicating that the AV industry has been experiencing sustained stability for the past six months. This index falls short of the 72.7 …
DPAA releases final line-up for next week’s media summit October 12, 2011 by Dave Haynes The agenda has been firmed up for next week’s Digital Place-based Advertising Association media summit in New York. It’s part of a pretty substantial Digital OOH week in the city. There’s the two-day Digital Signage Investor Conference, chaired by DailyDOOH blogger/shit-disturber Adrian Cotterill and Steve Nesbit, who has been around this sector about as long …
rAVe: A paper-thin poster AND speaker October 11, 2011 by rave Editor’s note: With speakers already very small (think tablets) there may be limited application for this in OOH and Digital OOH settings, but it is nonetheless pretty slick. A poster showing a traditional loudspeaker that can play real music was launched this week by the designer http://www.finnmagee.com. The poster is one of the first HomeAV products …
Walmart goes hyperlocal on screens with deals and content, but … October 11, 2011 by Dave Haynes Walmart is launching new messaging technology that localizes marketing messages based on what’s going on in the area and things like the weather. Sound familiar? Sure, it sounds like database-driven digital screen content. Yay! Except the screens, in this case, are PCs, tablets and smartphones. The retailing giant has announced the My Local Walmart Facebook app, …
Consolidation: Newad takes on competitor’s ad sales October 11, 2011 by Dave Haynes Montreal’s Newad has done a sales rep deal to market the digital screens run by what would have been something of a competitor, BarNet. By taking on BarNet’s screens in some 140 clubs in Canada’s biggest cities Newad more than doubles its digital sales footprint to some 1,300 screens targeting a decidedly young, hip and heavy-spending …
rAVe: Future of Display is Shaped: Mitsubishi’s Semispherical OLED Display October 11, 2011 by rave Ask yourself about “shape of the future” in displays and the natural conclusion is that once displays go flatter and flatter, the next direction is shape-changing. This June, Mitsubishi Electric created a semispherical OLED display called Geo-Cosmos for Japan’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. Now the concept has developed further with a prototype …
