UnSoldSpace enters increasingly crowded aggregator game July 18, 2008 by Dave HaynesAn Atlanta-based startup has announced its entry into the increasing crowded competition for getting in the middle of advertising transactions in the out of home sector, including digital. Last week it was AdSemble. Now we have UnSoldSpace.com, a Web-based search and broker tool that enables media planners/buyers to sniff out available media and quickly put …
New online ad-buying service, AdSemble, unveiled July 9, 2008 by Dave HaynesI bumped into a Google Alert-ed blog entry about a new Sunnyvale, California start-up that is taking a different spin on servicing the digital signage sector. AdSemble has built a Web-based platform that enables network operators to make time available on their systems for third parties to come in and buy or even bid on …
PEI start-up unveils networked screensaver June 12, 2008 by Dave HaynesMark Hemphill sent me a note yesterday to let me know about his new company ScreenScape, which is offering an entry level digital signage app that is a spin on the networked screensaver concept. The company is based in Prince Edward Island and grew out of a university project in that pretty little part of …
Screen network as guinea pig recruiter May 26, 2008 by Dave HaynesI am huge fan of anyone coming into this space who decides to go at it a little differently – and the newly announced Digi-AdServices Network certainly qualifies. This is the well-mined approach of putting screens in waiting rooms because of the defined audience and long dwell times. But the big difference is that the …
D-Link enters the fray. D-Link??? April 28, 2008 by Dave HaynesConsumer-oriented networking gear firm has announced it is getting into the digital signage business, and is showing its somewhat vague market entry at the Interop trade show this week in Lost Wages. In a press release, D-Link says it will be demonstrating both large and small digital signs and a back-end content and advertising delivery …
India free software player Infosignz releases pricing April 28, 2008 by Dave HaynesFledgling Indian DS software player Infosignz has cleverly attracted attention in a crowded field by offering a limited version of its product as free, with the caveat that a fully functional version was coming and it was NOT free. Infosignz has now released that pricing, which shows the price for something with the functionality serious …
More detail on that "free" software from Puerto Rico April 24, 2008 by Dave HaynesGiovanni Collazo, the lead designer behind a free digital signage platform out of Puerto Rico, sent me a link overnight to a Quicktime presentation that runs through the attributes of what is challengingly called s3mer. It has been decades since I took a marketing class, but I suspect somewhere in there was a suggestion that …
Raising money in a recession April 18, 2008 by Dave HaynesI have been in on a few discussions with money guys lately, as clients try to get their financing together for rollouts. The common message: really, really have your act together. The wobbly US economy has made investor cash much harder to come by than it was even a few months ago. Screens.tv has an …
The mixer is set – April 24 April 17, 2008 by Dave Haynes We’re going to Alice Fazooli’s, which is just west of the big tall building forest of downtown Toronto. Thursday, April 24 6:30 and on No formal host has stepped up for this one … yet Address: Alice Fazooli’s Italian Grill (bar) 294 Adelaide Street West Map: http://www.alicefazoolis.com/mapToronto.html For newcomers – a chance for people in …
Smart Pic's Dollar General on massive install blitz April 14, 2008 by Dave Haynes Travels last week prevented me from writing much, including a post on news that the Dollar General value retail chain in the US has launched a screen network. Much has been written on a few posts about the basics of the deal, including on Screens TV. Briefly, Dollar General TV (DGTV) started rolling out last …
