Display-focused digital signage conference set for next month in Silicon Valley July 22, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe market research company DisplaySearch is staging a display-centric (go figure) Digital Signage Conference on August 17 in San Jose, CA, baked into an overall conference. It is billed as bringing in speakers that cross the spectrum of the digital signage supply chain, but is understandably heavy on the display folks. It’s a pretty good …
DSE backers plan matchmaker weekend July 21, 2010 by Dave HaynesIf you are a digital signage vendor with $9,000-$15,000 burning a hole in your undoubtedly deep pockets, you can relieve of yourself of that burden now during a relaxing weekend at a resort and spa in San Diego this fall. Digital Signage Expo has organized what it is calling an industry forum on the extended …
400 digital signage software companies, and counting … July 20, 2010 by Dave HaynesJames van Etten does the Clippings industry intelligence newsletter that rounds up industry news overnight and drops it into 1,000s of email inboxes. At least I think he still does. I have not received one in months. Whatever the case, he issued a report today looking at the rankings of software companies, based on Google …
Agency giant forecasts global ad spend uptick for 2010 and beyond July 19, 2010 by Dave HaynesAgency giant Zenith Optimedia’s latest ad spend forecasts a modest growth in globally, with the big US market on the lethargic side and Canada growing faster than average. The US was expected to contract this year but is now expected to grow by 1.3% in 2010. Canada, which didn’t entirely dodge the Great Recession but …
RMG adds Yahoo's CMO to board July 19, 2010 by Dave HaynesRMG Networks, aka Reach Media Group, has added Elisa Steele, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Yahoo!, to its Board of Directors. Steele oversees the company’s global marketing strategy and therefore controls a budget that included a $100 million ad campaign last year and another one this spring that cost an estimated $75-$85 …
Rare street-level interactive sighting in Canada July 19, 2010 by Dave HaynesThere has been very little interactive street-level stuff done in Canada so far, which I find a little baffling. But now and then stuff does pop up, like a BMO Financial Group grassroots soccer campaign running at the company’s flagship downtown Toronto branch. Eight linked LCD screens use a combination of motion capture and touch …
Barco buys dZine software firm July 19, 2010 by Dave HaynesLED board giant Barco has announced closing a deal to acquire another Belgian firm – the digital signage solutions company dZine. In a release, Barco said the price tag was less than one time annual sales of dZine, excluding an earn-out provision over the next two and a half years. I don’t have an MBA …
Gov't-backed DOOH company starts rollout in Emirates July 19, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe government-backed Abu Dhabi Media Company (ADMC) has launched a pure-play digital out of home ad media company that is all about advertising and media services in the Emirates and around the Middle East. The company already has a broad portfolio of broadcast and print assets. Bankrolled by the Abu Dhabi government through ADMC, the …
Back at the desk July 19, 2010 by Dave HaynesOk, I seem to mostly have my act together after a week on the other side of the … zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Mostly, I stress … I had to look on my boarding pass on the flight home to not only confirm it was the 16th, but that it was Friday. Very disorienting for a Far East …
OBN shutting down LED board business July 16, 2010 by Dave HaynesSad to relay news that Canada’s Outdoor Broadcast Network (aka OBN) is shutting down its national LED board network, having decided there isn’t enough money yet in the still emerging DOOH marketplace to warrant the reinvestment capital needed for upgraded displays. The company, started and run by my old Elevator News Network colleagues Peter Irwin …