Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Chief/Milestone AV February 17, 2013 by Super User If there is connective tissue in this goofy little sector, it’s the mount and rack companies with the gear that puts displays in place and makes deployments work, and who provide a lot of overall support for the industry. Companies like Chief are always investing directly in the trade shows, in educational work, and in …
Preset Mixer: Who’s Going (Chart) February 16, 2013 by Super User Here’s a look at how the nearly 350 people coming to the mixer breaks down in terms of what they do. The actual number of end-users is higher than that (I have a non-official list and also see how people are registered). But I wouldn’t expect a whole pile of end-users coming to DSE for …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Capital Networks February 15, 2013 by Super User I got into the digital signage space coming on 14 years ago, and the first software company I dealt with was Capital Networks. We bought dozens of their servers and software and put them in racks in office tower closets and machine rooms to drive a signal over coax to screens in elevators. Capital wasn’t …
DPAA Sets Date, Venue For 2013 Digital Media Summit February 14, 2013 by Super User The Digital Place-based Advertising Association has set Oct. 22 as the date for what will be the 6th annual Digital Media Summit. The day-long event at the New York Hilton will, says the DPAA, examine critical topics related to digital place-based media, including contextual engagement and planning strategies, and feature case studies presented by leading …
Behold, The 60-Foot SI Swimsuit Supermodel February 14, 2013 by Super User The marketers for Sports Illustrated made going to sleep just that harder for mobs of 17-year-old boys in Las Vegas after they used projection mapping to blast 60-foot tall (my guess) images of this year’s lean and bouncy swimsuit issue models on the facade of the Caesar’s Palace resort last night. SI worked with projection …
Dot2Dot Adds Segmentation Targeting To Ad Manager February 14, 2013 by Super User Dot2Dot Communications, the Toronto company that is the team known for a few years as Scala Canada, is back at its roots of ad inventory management and scheduling, and has announced a demographic targeting module that leverages consumer insights from another Toronto company, DM Squared. The integrated tool, exclusive to Dot2Dot’s Ad Manager software, …
Navori Gets On The Android Train With Sub-$50 Player February 14, 2013 by Super User Swiss-based digital signage software firm NAVORI has ported its platform – which has run for years on Windows – to also run on the Google Android operating system. “We have been developing our QL Android player engine way before the Android OS™ proved to emerge from the initial smartphone platform it was intended for to …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: NEC Display Solutions February 14, 2013 by Super User Next up in our profiles of Preset Group DSE 2013 Mixer Sponsors is NEC Display Solutions, the professional display and projection system giant from Japan, via suburban Chicago. President and CEO Pierre Richer was kind enough to A – throw some money at me to help with 2013 mixer costs, and B – field my five …
Interactive Merchandising Part of Future Retail Panel At DSE2013 February 13, 2013 by Super User The keynote breakfast panel on the second day of Digital Signage Expo 2013 is all about future tech and one of the guys who’ll be there talking about his company’s cool pots and pans is Jared Schiffman, co-founder and CEO of NYC-based PERCH Interactive. Speaking with Curt Bailey (Sundberg-Ferar), Tim Huckaby (InterKnowlogy), and Christine Outram …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Multiband USA February 12, 2013 by Super User The Preset Mixer is now just two weeks out and it is time to start profiles of the great companies that kindly chipped in financial support to pull off an event for some 300 people. First up is Multiband, which in very broad strokes does digital signage deployments. I asked Matt Weldon, the National Sales Director of …
