Stratacache works partnership with Canadian telecom TELUS September 15, 2011 by Super User Stratacache has announced what looks like a pretty nice deal with TELUS, one of the big three telecoms in Canada, to market and deliver digital signage services up here amidst the moose, Mounties and Two-Fours. Says the release: This newly formed agreement brings together STRATACACHE’s digital signage software—ActiVia for Media—and TELUS’ national Canadian wireless network to create a new digital signage …
Worst content practices: In what strange parallel universe is this a good idea? September 15, 2011 by Super User From a press release for a new installation in a large hotel. Screen design madness. The client likely doesn’t know any better and thinks this is just mind-blowing. The vendor certainly should know better, and provide some basic advice. With ALL the good information out there, seeing these “worst practices” actually celebrated in press releases …
Four Winds hires execs to grow sales beyond North America September 14, 2011 by Super User Denver-based Four Winds Interactive has announced plans and hires to expand its business beyond North America. Former Scala exec Robert Koolen is now President of FWi’s international ops and Paul Farrow, who was most recently with HP’s digital signage business unit (wonder why he bailed on that … hmmm) is FWi’s Director for Europe. Koolen …
Where’s the dial??? Turns out 55-plus crowd actually does know how to use mobile phones September 14, 2011 by Super User If all your anthropology assumptions were based on TV spots and popular culture, you’d likely have concluded trying to get the 55-plus crowd using smart phones to use social networks and interact with screens was a totally lost cause. Older people tend to get portrayed as befuddled dolts who need phones with just two very …
Nix taking over as Scala’s CEO September 14, 2011 by Super User Tom Nix will be the new CEO of digital signage software vendor Scala when Gerard Bucas steps down from that gig at the end of October. It’s been a quick rise to the top for Nix, who only joined the company last summer. Nix had been the point man in North America for Dynamax and …
United Airlines’ media wing tunes ads to destination September 14, 2011 by Super User I’ve often thought as I sat in departure lounges at airports that at least part of the advertising cycle should reflect the context of the situation at that gate. In other words, use the screens to market stuff at the destination. It likely exists, but I’m not sure I’ve really seen it anywhere. But United …
iSign gets LOI renewal from Canadian c-store giant for Digital OOH network September 13, 2011 by Super User The company trying to acquire, keep going and then expand a Digital OOH network that’s been running in Canada’s largest C-store chain says it has hit one of its key milestones – a Letter Of Intent to re-up for five years with Mac’s/ Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. iSIGN Media Solutions Inc. is pleased to announce that …
3M starts to show new digital signage hand with Pixel Qi investment September 12, 2011 by Super User When news came along that Jeff Dowell – who had been running LG’s digital signage effort in the US – was going back to 3M and working on digital signage stuff there, people were naturally curious about how 3M was going to play in the space. The company had been involved pretty heavily as a …
Jill Miller joins Immersive Labs September 12, 2011 by Super User Jill Miller, known by many in the sector as the point person for The Digital Signage Group, has signed on with Immersive Labs as EVP Sales and Marketing. TDSG, run by Jill and her husband David, has for years been a reseller and big advocate and educator for the space. They were doing webinars years …
Smart: Visix launches pitch-free video blog series September 9, 2011 by Super User Visix is a bit like Four Winds Interactive in that it doesn’t make a lot of noise inside the digital signage community, but fairly quietly go about its business, and doing a lot of it. The Atlanta-area digital signage company — focused heavily on corporate communications and campus — has developed a series of simple …
