Sightings: Interactive product locator in Canadian Tire June 29, 2011 by Dave Haynes I have known the guys at Toronto-based Jibestream for more than a year and (disclosure) done some work with them here and there. They do interactive work for public-facing screens and have developed some very nice stuff, like a GIANT interactive wayfiding/directory piece in the concourse of Toronto’s Pearson T1 airport terminal. They have a …
Quebec's Desjardins bank deploys staff-facing digital signage dashboard solution June 29, 2011 by Dave HaynesBanks have long been seen as a primary application for customer-facing digital signage, and indeed a lot of banks are either now installed or in the process of deploying solutions. What’s not seen very often – at least not as far as I know – is staff-facing signage in banks. So the note I got …
DSE puts out call for 2012 speaker proposals June 28, 2011 by Dave HaynesIt’s hard to think this far out, but Digital Signage Expo is already furiously getting itself organized for the next gathering of the industry clans in early March 2012 in Lost Wages. The call is now out for speakers, or more accurately, proposals to get microphone time at the educational sessions. Educational Oversight Committees comprised of …
Strategy Institute releases agenda for fall investor conference in NYC June 27, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe Strategy Institute’s Investor Conference Oct. 17-18 in NYC now has a fairly robust agenda plotted out, and it’s being sent around looking for attendees. What caught my eye: Garry McGuire of RMG is doing the Day 1 keynote, called Digital Out-of-Home Media 2.0: The Next Generation Is Interactivity There’s a panel on network operations which …
AV giant Milestone lends hand to twister victims in its community June 27, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe great thing about DOOHgood is that it doesn’t take a lot of work to schedule a public service announcement spot into a digital signage network playlist, but it can have a real impact. So it is pretty cool to see a company in the space do a lot of real work to help disaster …
Tickers and zoned screens need to be the exception, not the rule, in digital signage June 24, 2011 by Dave HaynesI was struck at InfoComm by the way technology, good creative and actual thinking were resulting in some really strong content on big fella video walls and totems around the trade show. It’s nice to see how far the industry has moved in really thinking through an idea and execution. On the other hand, I …
Numbers show digital signage display giants differ in North America and globally June 24, 2011 by Dave HaynesA week after getting home from InfoComm I am starting to actually dig into some of my notes, materials stuck on USB drives by PR people, and downloaded conference presentations. I was a little late getting to the DisplaySearch conference and missed much of host Chris Connery’s opening presentation, which had some really interesting stats …
RMG exploring $250-million IPO June 22, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe Bloomberg news service is reporting that San Franisco-based RMG Networks is putting the components together for an estimated$250 million IPO that would, if it went out successfully, go a long way to making RMG the dominant Digital OOH network in North America. There are arguments to be made that the company already is among …
Who is at the target-rich HITEC show? Almost no one in DS June 21, 2011 by Dave HaynesTrade shows should be target-rich environments, so any digital signage vendor looking to crack the hotel and restaurant sector would logically have people and probably a booth at the big Hospitality Industry Technology Exposition & Conference (HITEC) on right now in Austin, Texas. So who is actually there? I know Four Winds Interactive does a …
Would you drop $185K for .sign? June 21, 2011 by Dave HaynesWord Monday from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (aka ICANN) that just about any word out there could be a new top-level domain name – meaning .dumb is just like .com – got me thinking. Until I heard the price tag. Application fees are $185,000 and that just to apply. ICANN says that …
