Monster Media sets up sales office in Canada March 1, 2010 by Dave Haynes The companies that have been dabbling in the projection DOOH media space in Canada now have a pretty substantial competitor in their midst. Orlando, Florida-based Monster Media has hired a guy and established an office in Toronto, with a release this afternoon describing what they do as “full body responsive out-of-home advertising.” John Payne, president of Monster …
Reach Media Turns On NYTimes.com Today Network, but will viewers care? March 1, 2010 by Dave Haynes Reach Media Group, aka RMG Networks, has done a deal to run New York Times content starting today on some 850 screens in five big cities in coffee shops, casual restaurants and airport newsstands. The plan sees RMG taking content from the Web site and re-branding it as the NYTimes.com Today network. Another 850 screens will be added …
Numbers you should remember (and tout) if you are chasing retail business March 1, 2010 by Dave HaynesLionel Tepper, who runs Digital Signage Universe, carved out the time to sit through some of the sessions at last week’s Digital Signage Expo. He always does a particularly thorough job, and he has quite a long, very useful section up about the Walmart Smart Network and the quality of its measurement. There is now lots …
DSE week will be interesting February 21, 2010 by Dave Haynes I am packed. Tickets printed. Seat chosen. Insured up the wahzoo because I don’t want to be bankrupted if I get a paper cut. This time last year I think there was a lot of snow on the ground and it had been a looooong winter. This year there is no snow up here and …
LocaModa sweats it assets; opens apps store February 16, 2010 by Dave Haynes This is smart. LocaModa has taken a lot of the Flash-centric applications it has developed and refined over the last 3-4 years, added some new ones, and packaged them up into an app store. These are essentially full-screen widgets that DOOH networks can grab to juice up their programming with something outside the over-used and …
Reminder: DOPES meeting and meet-up Tuesday night in LV February 23, 2009 by Dave Haynes Well the authorities kindly let me into the country, and I am safely on the ground in Las Vegas, looking east from my third floor room at the Rio over a glorious expanse of HVAC plants and satellite dishes. One look at me and I suppose it was clear I was not a whale, and …
Vegas meet-up and formative society meeting February 19, 2009 by Dave Haynes Yes, there’s a place where it’s still 1974 — where, for a few carefree hours, one can sink back into a plush booth next to a bubbling pool of fire; where cocktail waitresses in full-length gowns bring you mai tais and zombies while you munch on salted almonds and bask in the hazy, blue- and …
Moving Day July 31, 2008 by Dave Haynes Well, the end of the month seems like as good a time as any to re-point the blog from here to over there. The new home for this is https://www.sixteen-nine.net I would set up an automatic re-direct, but there’s that sticky little issue about not knowing how to actually pull that off. The stuff that …
DSE '09 announces breakout show for something pretty much everyone at DSE does July 30, 2008 by Dave HaynesThere’s a reason for this … just what, we’re not sure. Digital Signage Expo (DSE) will introduce a new Out-of-Home Network Show, Feb. 25-26, 2009, in Las Vegas, reports Digital Signage Today. “We are introducing the Out-of-Home Network Show to showcase private networks, an innovative result of the digital signage industry, because they are becoming …
IBC show joins the DS party July 29, 2008 by Dave HaynesWell, if you were trying to figure out a way to get a quick European holiday in this year, maybe you can talk your boss into the absolute importance of attending the big IBC 2008 show in Amsterdam in September. This year, the show has bolted on a digital signage component. IBC2008 organizers will add …
