CETW walking the talk, using customer engagement tools April 6, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe 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 Dave HaynesThis 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 Dave HaynesThe 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 Dave HaynesByron 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 Dave HaynesLooks 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 Dave HaynesThe 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 …
Next Toronto mixer targeted for May 10th March 30, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe Red Sox are in town playing the Jays a few blocks over, so traffic might be a little messy, but I think May 10th is still as good a date as any for the next Toronto digital signage and Digital OOH industry mixer. It will run at the same place as we did it …
Buffalo jail debuts Captive Ads program March 29, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe Erie County Holding Centre in Buffalo (aka jail) now has a giant HD monitor running ads for defence lawyers and bail bondsmen. The ads, reports the Buffalo News, targets people who have been recently arrested. The Buffalo News cites Anthony N Diina, the head of a company offering digital advertising services to Erie County government, as …
DOOH4Relief Update: Spain involved; ClearChannel pitches in at airports March 28, 2011 by Dave HaynesI got a nice note from Jim Nista at Insteo, the company that put together and is hosting the DOOH4Relief website. A new set of ads has been added to the roster, these from and intended for the Spanish market and its Cruz Roja Espanola. The 19-second spots were produced in portrait and landscape modes. The …
Two weeks after the quake, but DOOH4Relief still needed March 25, 2011 by Dave HaynesIt has now been two weeks since the deadly earthquake and tsunami in Japan, and while the media industry has somewhat moved on to the latest Middle East conflict, and the new season of Dancing with the Stars, the troubles in Japan are still very real, and help will be needed for a long time. …