Harris Broadcast: Deal Process “Proceeding As Planned” August 30, 2012 by Super User The leadership at the broadcast communications division of Harris have sent a note around to staff providing an update on where things are at with the parent company’s plans to sell the business unit off. A copy found its way to my Inbox. The summary: things are moving along, some big boys are looking, and …
Coca-Cola And Telstra Roll Out 3,000 Digital Signs In Australia August 30, 2012 by Super User Telstra, the big Aussie telecoms company, has done a deal with Coca-Cola Amatil (CCA), the beverage company’s bottler down under, to put some 3,000 digital sign units in bars and restaurants to drive purchases, using the carrot of free WiFi. Buying a Coca-Cola product gets customers a code they can use to connect through to …
PRN In, ABC Out For Ad Sales on 7-Eleven Digital OOH Network August 28, 2012 by Super User ABC is out and PRN is in as the lead ad sales team for the 7-Eleven TV Digital OOH network. Premier Retail Networks has done a deal with Digital Display Networks, which operates the network in some 4,400 c-stores, to be the exclusive advertising sales representative for the network effective immediately. Says a release: Under …
Scala Canada Is Now Dot2Dot August 16, 2012 by Super User The software company Scala has done a deal with its Canadian office to break it off and make a new company out of the management and staff and assign them master distributor status up here among the dog sleds and lumberjacks and Biebers. Dot2Dot Communications, says a press release, will continue to build, bill and …
DPAA Adds Russian And Romanian Members August 16, 2012 by Super User The Digital Place-based Advertising Association says it has added Russia and Romania to its international membership, joining earlier relationships announced with associations in Canada, Brazil and Australia. The Romanian Indoor Advertising Association (RIAA) was founded just last tear and is driven by Ovidiu Brazdau, a managing partner of Info-Sanatate Network, a waiting room network in …
New H.265 Video Compression Will Be Twice As Efficient as H.264 August 16, 2012 by Super User This could be big. The Moving Picture Experts Group (aka MPEG), which has members representing the interests of telecoms, computer, TV and consumer electronics companies, met last month and has approved a new standard for high efficiency video coding that video now encoded using H.264 (a widely used encoding standard these days) can be done …
Financials: Planar’s Fortunes Improving As Digital Signage Sales Climb August 14, 2012 by Super User Planar Systems latest financials show the company lost money during the last quarter, but its fortunes are improving as it gets more focused on standard products and less on specialty work. The NASDAQ-listed company, based in the Portland, OR-area, lost 8 cents a share on sales of just shy of $45 million. That was up 19% …
Pro Hockey’s NY Rangers Turn On Digital Signage Network August 13, 2012 by Super User Many years of doing this has exposed me to digital signage being used in endless ways, but I have never seen it applied as a tool to herd pro athletes. Pro hockey’s New York Rangers are using digital screens at its Madison Square Garden Training Center in Tarrytown, NY to communicate with the players. The Rangers, …
DPAA: 94% Of Media Planners Have Digital OOH Baked Into 2013 Strategy August 13, 2012 by Super User The Digital Place-based Advertising Association (DPAA) has released new survey results that suggest 94 percent of strategic media planners plan to allocate dollars to digital OOH in 2013. When planners were asked about project spending for 2013, 94.2% said they would include DPb media (worst contrived acronym … ever) in their plans, compared to 86.3 …
Financials: Wireless Ronin Still Deep In Red, But Losses Getting Smaller August 10, 2012 by Super User Wireless Ronin had its latest SEC-required opening of the kimono session Thursday, reporting quarterly reults and getting on a conference call with analysts. In short, it’s an ongoing struggle and the interesting thing is the analysts are getting kinda cranky and pushy, something I’ve not noticed in reading transcripts from earlier reports. The execs tell …
