Virgin retail CIO to do keynote at DS Show February 6, 2009 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Show has announced its keynote speaker for the next show in May is the CIO and Vice President of Information Technology of Virgin Entertainment Group, and his plan is to talk about what they pulled together for Virgin MegaStore.The presentation is called: “Enhancing The Customer Experience While Achieving Increased Sales Lift, and Operational …
UK firm has low-cost screen protectors February 6, 2009 by Dave HaynesThis comes from the UK, which means I get to use the term “Gobsmacked!!!”I am gobsmacked, at times, when I see a digital screen install in which neither screen or controls are protected in any way, and are in easy reach of the general public. It should be a given that any screen placed in …
Three years and about 1,100 posts … so far February 6, 2009 by Dave Haynes I just realized today marks three years of writing this nonsense.By my count, 1,100 posts and so far only one cease and desist letter from an emperor who didn’t like me pointing out he’d dropped his pants.There were truly just a handful of blogs on the industry when I started writing this thing. Now there …
Creative insights for aging audiences February 6, 2009 by Dave Haynes Marketing Charts has a piece up about Baby Boomer attitudes towards photos in advertising, and it may offer some clues to people doing creative for digital screens targeting more mature audiences. Whil;e most of what is done in our space is motion graphics, a lot of times the images and message have to be brief and …
Bonus points February 6, 2009 by Dave HaynesI think that puts you in the running for digital signage man of the decade
Do we get extra credit? February 6, 2009 by Dave HaynesHey Dave, we saw this release too, but we didn’t run it— Do we get any bonus points? 🙂 We actually do read most of what we post.
Transit TV shuts down February 6, 2009 by Dave HaynesTransit Television Network has voluntarily filed for bankruptcy protection in the United States, according to news reports.Torstar Corp., which owns Canada’s largest circulation daily newspaper (the Toronto Star), says it plans to take a $1.5 million charge on its fourth-quarter financial statement as a result of the closure. Torstar had said a year ago it had done a deal to …
It's free!!! Well, sorta, well, OK, not really … February 5, 2009 by Dave Haynes There seems to be some sort of crazy race on right now to take press releases and slap them into online trade publications and portals as quickly as possible — never mind what they say.It is awfully tempting to just send out something official looking about Sixteen:Nine Media Corp. signing a deal to install a …
DSE tour set for Vegas February 5, 2009 by Dave Haynes The Digital Signage Expo people have been doing a bus tour for a while now of signature installs in the cities where the show is held. This coming show is in Las Vegas, which probably has more networked digital screens per square foot than just about anywhere — certainly North America. The Feb. 24 tour stops, according to show …
Michael Willems February 5, 2009 by Dave HaynesI was fortunate to meet Michael first as a customer of Enqii, and then as a colleague. His vision of a scalable and extremely reliable digital signage platform has served Enqii well…best wishes for continued success.
