DPAA adds DSF and Brazil's Digital OOH member body May 16, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe Digital Place-based Advertising Association has added a pair of associations to its member roster – the US-based Digital Signage Federation and ABDOH, The Brazilian Out-of-Home Association. Founded in April 2008, ABDOH has 16 Digital OOH network operators as members and, reports the DPAA in a release, has a mandate to “disseminate information about the DOOH …
Strategy Institute going ahead with 6th annual DS Investor conference in NYC May 16, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe Strategy Institute has cut out its other events aimed at this sector, but is going ahead with plans for what will be the 6th annual Digital Signage Investor Conference in New York, October 25-26. The draft agenda has been schemed up and there are just a handful of confirmed presenters so far, including: * Virginia Cargill, …
The Pandora's Box of Pay Per Look in Digital OOH Advertising May 15, 2011 by Dave HaynesMontreal-based Ayuda Media Systems is among many company showing its pots and pans at the big Screen Media Expo event this week in London. One of the big things it will be talking about is its integration of Intel’s anonymous video analytics technology. Ayuda first started talking at DSE earlier in the year about the …
LoveContent judges decide what they really loved May 13, 2011 by Dave HaynesUK-based industry group The Screen has released its LoveContent Awards nominee list, with winners to announced at next week’s big ScreenMedia Expo 2011 in London. The judging panel worked their way through over 120 submissions to single out 13 of the very best digital-out-of-home campaigns across the five creative award categories. The nominations covering the …
CODACAN's 2nd ADLYMPICS to promote DigitalOOH set for next week May 13, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe Canadian Out-of-Home Digital Association (CODACAN) has its second annual ADLYMPICS set up for next week in Toronto. This year’s event so far has 16 ad agency teams registered, and several sponsors, including LG, Intel and the Steam Whistle Brewery. The format is a series of loopy sports events, with agency teams competing over the …
Digital signage tech jobs open up in Waterloo, Montreal May 13, 2011 by Dave HaynesCineplex Digital Solutions (known until acquisition last year as DDC) is looking for an Operations Manager to work out of the company’s offices in Waterloo, Ontario – down the road from where BlackBerries and Christie displays are conceived. The job reports to president Stuart Kirkpatrick, but if you can get past that, it’s a gig …
Wireless Ronin sales jump, but firm still lost another $2.3M May 12, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe latest required financial results from Minneapolis-based Wireless Ronin show work they are doing with Chrysler and, by extension, Fiat, as well as more work with Aramark, made for a positive spin on sales numbers. RNIN did $2.4 million in sales for Q1, up 123 percent increase year-over-year. Software license sales were up 264 percent year-over-year. …
NYC's Port Authority Terminal to be giant media facade May 11, 2011 by Dave HaynesHat tip to OOH-TV for flagging this … You’d have to think Times Square is pretty much wall-papered with LEDs and there’s not much else to slap a digital ad onto … so A2AMedia has gone a few blocks west and done a deal to surround much of the New York Port Authority Terminal with …
Posterscope names new head of US Digital OOH unit May 11, 2011 by Dave HaynesMedia sales people who do the rounds of the big New York agencies have a new guy to get interested in their pots and pans. Martin Porter is the VP and Director of Hyperspace, the Digital OOH and technology specialty division of OOH planning giant Posterscope. Porter, a Brit, will be in charge of leading …
Flypaper acquired by eLearning firm May 11, 2011 by Dave HaynesFlypaper Studio, which has been marketing a toolset that simplifies creating Flash content for digital signage, has been acquired by Trivantis, a company largely in the eLearning space. The announcement was made at the start of Trivantis’ user conference for its Lectora product. The transaction, says the release, combines Trivantis’ deep expertise and relationships in …