Adcentricity Acquired By Bee Media; Name Sticks, Direction Changes April 24, 2012 by Super User Adcentricity has been acquired by a Toronto-based mobile/hyper-local company called Bee Media, with a new blended company to operate under the better known and arguably more effective Adcentricity handle. The new Adcentricity formalizes a switch it has been very quietly making away from just the Digital OOH aggregation model (which was working, just not enough) …
Tech: How To Get A Dead Rapper For Your Next Concert April 16, 2012 by Super User There’s lot of buzz today in tech blogs about the virtual appearance of long-dead rapper Tupac Shakur at the Coachella music festival in California this weekend. Most of the buzz is about the ethics of having a dead guy perform at a live show (at least he wouldn’t have had a ridiculous dressing room rider …
Stratacache Adds 100K Sq Ft Integration Building, Plans 20-30 New Hires April 9, 2012 by Super User With pretty persistent rumours and public financials on the shaky state of a number of companies in this sector, it’s encouraging to get news of firms that are actually expanding facilities and hiring people. Stratacache has bought another building in the Dayton, Ohio-area – bringing its total to five and the footprint to 250,000 square …
Samsung Spins Off Display Business … Sorta April 2, 2012 by Super User Samsung’s display business is now officially known as Samsung Display Co., Ltd, a spun-off separate entity from Samsung Electronics. Samsung still owns 100 per cent of Samsung Display, however. Donggun Park, the new CEO of Samsung Display, says the company did about $20 billion US last year and instantly becomes the the world’s largest display manufacturer. Samsung Display says …
Broadcast International Makes $8M, Loses $8M March 30, 2012 by Super User Utah-based Broadcast International has been around the digital signage space for a few years but not been all that embedded in it, also marketing video compression technology I remember getting demo’d on a cell phone going back maybe five years. The company was at Digital Signage Expo with a fairly substantial stand and pitch about their …
FTC’s New Privacy Report Addresses Digital Signage Face Detection Tech March 26, 2012 by Super User The US Federal Trade Commission has released a new report on consumer privacy that tries to cover the waterfront on concerns Americans have about everything from tracking their online and mobile habits to the anonymous video analytics technology being heavily marketed these days by Intel and a host of smaller companies. The FTC report is …
Immersive Labs Helps Drive Pepsi’s SXSW Zeitgeist March 23, 2012 by Super User New York-based Immersive Labs is back from what sounds like a very cool few days working with PepsiCo at the massive SXSW interactive conference in Austin, Texas, which I am thinking I need to start attending. The startup – which does a face pattern detection-ad serving and analytics mash-up for digital OOH – was invited …
Polish Digital OOH Network Switches To BroadSign March 22, 2012 by Super User There’s nothing like a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing to install confidence in prospective clients, so I am sure the guys at BroadSign were very keen to get word out of a software win with a third-party ad network that deploys in some of the major grocers in Poland. BroadSign’s ad-focused SaaS platform should be driving …
Canada Telecom Giant Bell Buys Astral Media March 16, 2012 by Super User Media concentration is a big issue in Canada, and it just got bigger as the country’s largest telecommunications company BCE Inc. – which already owns TV networks and newspapers – just bought Quebec-based Astral Media, which owns specialty TV channels and radio stations, and one of the largest OOH-Dogital OOH footprints in the country. The deal …
NEC’s VUKUNET Adds Media Sales, Addresses Software Conflict Qualms March 13, 2012 by Super User In the midst of madly running around last week at DSE I managed to grab the equally harried tag team of Pierre Richer and Ashley Flaska, President and VP Marketing of NEC Display, to get a little more filled in on what’s happening with their Digital OOH ad efforts via VUKUNET. I posted recently about …
