Tour of Ogilvy's Innovation Lab part of next NYC The Screen event September 8, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe Screen USA is holding another one of its morning breakfast briefings in New York later this month, this one focused on creative. The event is being held in cooperation with the global creative agency Ogilvy & Mather – with a morning briefing to be held at Ogilvy’s Manhattan headquarters on Tuesday the 21st, followed by …
Masters Series: Review from Wednesday's event in TO August 19, 2010 by Dave HaynesBoth Lyle Bunn, who organized, and Dmitry Sokolov, who attended, have sent along their reports from the Digital Signage Masters Series event held in Toronto Wednesday. I couldn’t go, but saw a pile of Tweets from Dmitry (Ingram Micro’s DS guy up here amid the ice floes and polar bears), about the proceedings. My first …
Digital Signage Expo tweaks, expands 2011 conference program August 10, 2010 by Dave HaynesDigital Signage Expo is only six months away and with luck, that will be the next time I am in Lost Wages. Been there a little too much this year. The DSE folks have announced changes to the conference program for 2011, breaking it up into nine tracks to serve different target audiences: • Digital …
DSA takes micro-show to big printing expo August 5, 2010 by Dave HaynesI wrote the other day about how companies that take the trade show road less traveled are being smart, and I see now the Digital Screenmedia Association is thinking along those lines, as well. The DSA has a digital signage zone in October at the specialty Imaging and Printing Technology Expo in Lost wages in …
PRN exec to talk at next "Masters" series event in Toronto August 3, 2010 by Dave HaynesCathy Stauffer, the VP of Customer Experience for Premier Retail Networks, gets the mike at the next Digital Signage Masters Series event, set for Aug. 18th in Toronto. The session is called Digital Signage in Retail and Dining and will be at the St. Lawrence Hall in downtown Toronto. Address and registration stuff is here. …
Going vertical – the trade show road less traveled July 30, 2010 by Dave HaynesSay what you will about the software company Wireless Ronin and the sinking ship it may well be, but its execs deserve credit for identifying a vertical and going after it hard. The company has clearly laid down sector knowledge and service delivery in quick service and fast casual restaurant markets, and unlike many of its …
GSTV skips cocktail party; does beer pong tourney instead July 26, 2010 by Dave HaynesYou have to hand it to the DOOH companies that are duking it out in the gas station space – they don’t necessarily stick to the well-beaten path. We have Pumptop TV doing things very differently with its content mix (this week it is clips from the World Hop Hop Dance Championships). And now we …
Three birthday candles for DailyDOOH July 25, 2010 by Dave HaynesWhen little kids turn three they stop a lot of their babbling and start to form coherent sentences, so we’re hoping the same thing will now apply with DailyDOOH and its crack team. ;-] More seriously, happy three years to Adrian and the kids at DailyDOOH, which I think can be safely assessed as the …
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 …