Projects: Digital OOH Lotto Network Switches On In Mauritius June 11, 2014 by Super User A media company in the Indian Ocean island nation of Mauritius is working with that country’s national lottery on promo screens that are replacing analog posters at 250 retail sites. Plug In has the deal with the National Lottery of Mauritius, which is buying airtime on Plug In screens. The system is using Signagelive’s platform, and running …
Gas Station TV Acquired By Detroit PE Firm June 3, 2014 by Super User Michigan-based Gas Station TV (aka GSTV) has been acquired another Michigan company, Detroit-based Rockbridge Growth Equity, as well as a group of smaller investors. The deal gets special attention because the big name involved is Dan Gilbert, who has made a serious fortune founding and growing Quicken Loans. Gilbert has pumped a lot of money into …
Oxford, Cineplex Team On Ambitious, Reimagined Digital Mall Media Program May 13, 2014 by Super User Canada’s Cineplex Digital Media and Oxford Properties Group have announced a deal to create what they’re calling North America’s first place-based digital ecosystem in shopping malls. The program integrates architectural digital media, mobile technology, social media, experiential technologies, and digital media sales and analytics, “providing a first-of-its-kind opportunity to inspire shoppers and influence purchasing decisions. From …
Two Proof Of Display Products Hit Digital Signage Market On Same Day May 13, 2014 by Super User In an odd little twist, a pair of companies are making noise week in London about new products that monitor the state of digital signage networks using tech that watches the output of screens. Beatpixels is launching UpState at an NEC Showcase event while Taggalo was formally launching and pitching its own proof of display …
The Market Did NOT Like RMG’s Numbers May 8, 2014 by Super User Well, I liked what I saw Yesterday of RMG Networks new Executive Briefing Center but the market definitely did not like the latest financials released today by the software/media company. The NASDAQ-listed company closed trading today at 97 cents, down a mind-wobbling 70.61% from the previous day’s close. Normally, the company trades about 11,00 shares day …
NYC Puts Payphone Call Out For (Ideally) Insane MediaCo May 8, 2014 by Super User New York City has issued a new RFP, looking for (probably) a media company interested in retrofitting its 1,000s of old public payphones as free WiFi hotspots. There are more than 7,000 public pay telephone installations across the five boroughs, and the pitch to potential respondents is that they can bankroll the deployment by running …
RMG Networks Posts $8.3M Operating Loss For Quarter May 8, 2014 by Super User RMG Networks posted its quarterly financials today, a rough set of numbers the company is attributing to weaker ad revenues and higher operating costs pinned to adding to and changing sales and marketing efforts. The company reported an adjusted operating loss for the last quarter of $8.3 million, compared to a pro forma operating loss of $2.6 …
This Network Brought To You By Cheetos May 7, 2014 by Super User A Phoenix mobile tech and marketing company has done a letter of intent to buy an existing digital signage network, with the goal of cornering the ad market in places that legally sell marijuana. SinglePoint, Inc. plans to buy Drive Media Network , for cash and stock, with the initial plan to install Drive Media screens in medical and …
PetCare TV Harmonizes Ops On BroadSign April 24, 2014 by Super User BroadSign seems to be on a bit of run lately, adding more and more network clients. The latest deal is PetCARE TV, which has converted its network of 1,750 screens to BroadSign’s software platform. The network puts screens in the waiting rooms of veterinarian offices, and PetCAREpretty much owns that vertical. A third of programming is used for …
Projects: Giant NASDAQ Dubai Stock Ticker April 15, 2014 by Super User Elevision has done all of its media inside office tower elevators in Dubai, but now the Digital OOH firm has added a giant 96-metre wide LED ticker board outside one of the emirate’s iconic buildings, the Dubai International Financial Centre. The screen is the largest in the Middle East and will be used to report …
