Mixer Plans January 28, 2015 by Super User I’m getting a steady drip drip of emails from industry contacts asking about the annual Preset Group DSE Mixer. Answers: Yup, it’s on. Usual night before trade show hall opens. We’ll be back at the Hard Rock on the strip, 3rd floor. Room booked. Insurance done. Sponsors are in place, but I need to double-confirm …
NRF: A Crowded Digital Signage Field Gets Even More Crowded January 12, 2015 by Super User The last time I was at the big National Retail Federation trade show in New York, digital signage was something you saw here and there – in small solo booths or as one of the interesting services wedged into the mega booths of major tech companies. What struck me, wandering the aisles of NRF 2015 …
Next Week’s CES Will Switch On Quantum Dots Chatter, So What Is It … January 2, 2015 by Super User Las Vegas is about to be even more of a zoo than normal – if normal is a word you can attach to that city – as the annual Consumer Electronics Show ramps up. As it is every year, a lot of the stuff on the show floor and in the private areas is very …
CEW Trade Show Discontinued December 29, 2014 by Super User I saw news elsewhere online that Customer Engagement World – the annual trade show in New York – had been shut down, but wanted to get direct confirmation myself before relaying it here. Joel Davis, the JD in show manager JD Events, confirmed for me via email that the news is accurate: “JD Events has …
DSE Goes On Road To Brazil December 8, 2014 by Super User Exponation, the company that has for years run the Digital Signage Expo trade show, has struck an agreement that will see a version of the event in Brazil this July. DSE South America is a joint venture with with South American trade show producer BTS Informa, and will be lo-located with something called SERIGRAFIA SIGN …
Programmatic, Not Problematic: 2014 DPAA Video Everywhere Summit November 10, 2014 by Ricard Fortin Guest Post: Stephanie Gutnik, BroadSign Video killed the radio star but programmatic didn’t kill the creative director. The 2014 DPAA Video Everywhere Summit attracted an impressive crowd of over 700 digital place-based networks, vendors and agency folk. Of the latter group, Rob Griffin, EVP Global Head of Digital at Havas, had a lot to say …
Video: The Thinking Behind 9/11 Museum’s Interactive November 10, 2014 by Super User This is worth a watch, via Wired. Jake Barton’s company, Local Projects, designed the interactive elements for the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York, as well as the amazing interactive wall at the Cleveland Museum of Art. He had the most interesting in what was a string of great talks at last week’s SEGD Xlab …
DPAA Conference: Growth Sector That’s Developing Strong Peripheral Vision November 7, 2014 by Benjamin Schmitt GUEST POST: Steve Schildwachter, rVue Having spent the entire day and evening at the DPAA’s Video Everywhere Summit in New York on Tuesday, I thought I’d add some points to Dave’s whirlwind report of his two hours at the conference. My overall impression was summarized nicely in a quote from media industry analyst Rich Greenfield, who observed that “TV …
DSA Crown Award Winner List November 7, 2014 by Super User The Digital Screenmedia Association (DSA) did its annual Crown Awards this week in New York City. Here’s the winner list: Category – Point of Sale (content budget of $10,000 or more) Gold: Bank of Ireland, submitted by RMG Networks Silver: Titanfall Video Wall Experience at the Microsoft Stores, submitted by Synect Media Bronze: AT&T Flagship …
DPAA, CEW, Ad:Tech, Xlab Impressions November 7, 2014 by Super User I kinda fell in the door this morning at 1:15 after getting back from New York City via Buffalo, after three hectic days in the city. I usually like to write a wrap-up focused on an event, but I can’t honestly say I spent enough time at some of them to provide much color commentary …
