Ronin Creeps Yet Closer To $100M Deficit November 8, 2013 by Super User The latest quarterly financials from Wireless Ronin are out: Q3 2013 Financial Results Revenue in the third quarter of 2013 was $1.5 million compared to $1.8 million in the same year-ago quarter. The decrease was primarily due to a decline in kiosk orders received from individual Fiat dealerships, partially offset by a follow-on order from Polaris …
CETW – Day 1 Impressions November 7, 2013 by Super User I thought the crowd was pretty decent in terms of numbers, and there were lots of people coming and going. Throngs? No. Steady? Yeah, probably. My very unofficial understanding is the numbers expected were up. This is definitely not a digital signage show. It has several vendors with those capabilities, but also loads of vendors …
ScreenScape Goes Platinum With Private Label Offer November 6, 2013 by Super User ScreenScape Networks, based in beautiful little PEI in Canada’s Atlantic region, has been around for many years with a web-based digital signage platform that has largely been positioned at the entry-level and SMB markets. They’ve done pretty well, from what I can tell, in building up a list of networks in the small to medium …
Research: Digital Place-Based Posed For Major Growth Via Multi-Screen Campaigns November 5, 2013 by Super User This will warm the hearts of anyone charged with advertising sales at a Digital Out Of Home network. A new study by the ANA (Association of National Advertisers) and Nielsen – done among client-side marketers, agencies and media sellers – suggests media spending related to campaigns run across multiple screen platforms will make a big jump in the next …
Amscreen’s Minority Report Reference Sparks UK Shit-Storm November 4, 2013 by Super User Any media coverage having to do with face pattern detection and advertising – like what Quividi does – seems to invariably prompt tired old references to the 2002 film Minority Report. Never mind that the technology is nothing like that. It’s in the same popular culture hemisphere, so use it. Fine. Got it. Used to …
Looking Ahead To CETW This Week November 4, 2013 by Super User I have not been to CETW for a couple of years – mostly a scheduling thing that saw me somewhere else. But I am heading over to Buffalo tomorrow afternoon and down to JFK for two days at the trade show in New York. I tend to go to DSE for the trade show floor …
Digital Signage Proximity Marketing Goes (Very) High Frequency November 4, 2013 by Super User John Kirkpatrick, or JK as he is widely known, has been around this sector forever, having started FRED Systems 20 years ago and selling the pioneering digital signage software system to Mercury Online (which 3M then bought) in the early to mid 2000s. These days he does management consulting and is banging the drum for …
Flanigan Tapped To Head DSA November 1, 2013 by Super User Paul Flanigan is in and David Drain is out at the Digital Screenmedia Association, with Flanigan taking over as executive director and Drain taking on a different gig with Networld Media Group, which provides management services for the not-for-profit trade association. Drain is now s senior vice president of events for Networld. Flanigan “brings a tremendous …
Leading Authority You’ve Never Heard Of Pegs Digital Signage Market at $14 Billion October 31, 2013 by Super User A Denver-area research company that seems to have its collective eyes on everything under the sun – including photovoltaic cells this week – has issued its take on the prospects for the digital signage sector. I greet analyses by “experts” from research firms that are experts on everything with considerable ambivalence. But if you have …
Seenspire Releases Gorgeous Digital Signage Holiday Video Packs October 29, 2013 by Super User The content company Seenspire does some really nice work both on the creative and scripting side, and has just released a package of videos that cover 12 holidays and events – from Christmas to St. Paddy’s Day – with two versions of each. The nice wrinkle here is that part of the deal is the company …
