Nix taking over as Scala’s CEO September 14, 2011 by Dave Haynes Tom Nix will be the new CEO of digital signage software vendor Scala when Gerard Bucas steps down from that gig at the end of October. It’s been a quick rise to the top for Nix, who only joined the company last summer. Nix had been the point man in North America for Dynamax and …
United Airlines’ media wing tunes ads to destination September 14, 2011 by Dave Haynes I’ve often thought as I sat in departure lounges at airports that at least part of the advertising cycle should reflect the context of the situation at that gate. In other words, use the screens to market stuff at the destination. It likely exists, but I’m not sure I’ve really seen it anywhere. But United …
iSign gets LOI renewal from Canadian c-store giant for Digital OOH network September 13, 2011 by Dave Haynes The company trying to acquire, keep going and then expand a Digital OOH network that’s been running in Canada’s largest C-store chain says it has hit one of its key milestones – a Letter Of Intent to re-up for five years with Mac’s/ Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. iSIGN Media Solutions Inc. is pleased to announce that …
3M starts to show new digital signage hand with Pixel Qi investment September 12, 2011 by Dave Haynes When news came along that Jeff Dowell – who had been running LG’s digital signage effort in the US – was going back to 3M and working on digital signage stuff there, people were naturally curious about how 3M was going to play in the space. The company had been involved pretty heavily as a …
Jill Miller joins Immersive Labs September 12, 2011 by Dave Haynes Jill Miller, known by many in the sector as the point person for The Digital Signage Group, has signed on with Immersive Labs as EVP Sales and Marketing. TDSG, run by Jill and her husband David, has for years been a reseller and big advocate and educator for the space. They were doing webinars years …
Smart: Visix launches pitch-free video blog series September 9, 2011 by Dave Haynes Visix is a bit like Four Winds Interactive in that it doesn’t make a lot of noise inside the digital signage community, but fairly quietly go about its business, and doing a lot of it. The Atlanta-area digital signage company — focused heavily on corporate communications and campus — has developed a series of simple …
Touch me and tell me how you’d vote September 9, 2011 by Dave Haynes The use of anonymous video analytics for Digital OOH home audience measurement and dynamic ad serving has been touted for a while now, but now a Dallas-Forth Worth company is promoting a new spin on that by suggesting the same technology be used for political polling and candidate marketing. Access1 Media has launched what it …
Data mining start-up PlaceIQ sees nice fit with Digital OOH September 9, 2011 by Dave Haynes One of the most intriguing chats I had was one I instigated with the CEO of PlaceIQ, having read somewhere about the company. Duncan McCall’s start-up, based in beautiful Boulder, Colorado, ingests mountains of data about places, things and people, and makes sense of it all for the purposes of targeted advertising. The company is …
Well that was fun … September 8, 2011 by Dave Haynes I love the speed, efficiency and flexibility of the WordPress content management system for bloggers. But it is an open source platform, and that means there are a few bad apples out there who delight in messing up all the good work done by thousands of people who have developed and made plugins available, that …
Porter leaving Nanolumens September 8, 2011 by Dave Haynes Kyle Porter has quickly become well-known in the space as one of the key customer-facing guys at NanoLumens, but that’s about to change as he leaves the company to co-found a software start-up. He called me the other day to fill me in, and when he said he was leaving to start a software firm, …
