Harris Bags Auto Showroom Network Deal January 17, 2012 by Super User The Digital OOH business unit of Harris has announced a deal that could see its software and services driving screens in auto dealerships around North America, touting as many as 1,000 going in by year’s end. The deal is with the Automotive Broadcast Network (ABN), whose three-year-old Dealer TV service is designed to improve the car …
BrightSign And Signagelive Pair Up On Networked Offer January 16, 2012 by Super User We’ve been talking a lot about consolidation in the digital signage sector because there are way too many solutions options out there. But not all that consolidation is going to be on the M&A side. Sometimes, it will be two companies choosing to work together instead of competing. Consider the news today about a deal …
DSA MXR At NRF In NYC January 13, 2012 by Super User If you are going to the National Retail Federation’s Big Show in New York next week (not I), the Digital Screenmedia Association is doing an informal mixer. No sponsors, no agenda, just networking, says DSA executive director David Drain. It’s this coming Tuesday, Jan. 17th, at 6:30 pm at Stitch Bar & Lounge, 247 West 37th Street, between 7th …
Ronin Wins Rollout With Interactive Rollout, But Can’t Name Client January 12, 2012 by Super User I tend to pay the most attention to Wireless Ronin when the company is forced by those damned securities regulators to lift the veil each quarter and show its financials. That’s usually not the best of news, so for a change, here’s some better news. The company has started rolling out what it calls a …
UCView Debuts Entry-level Platform January 4, 2012 by Super User LA-based digital signage software firm UCView has joined the ranks of companies competing for the entry-level to mid-sized business market with a bundle billed as dead-easy to fire up and start using. One element of the pitch behind the SignEdge bundle – player and software – is that activating and using the platform for the first …
Raffi Vartian Hooks Up With signagelive January 2, 2012 by Super User This was done weeks ago, but the official word is now out that UK-based signagelive has hired on Raffi Vartian to build up the company’s business in North and South America. Raffi has been around the space for several years, first on the proximity marketing side with his own BlueTooth-based startup and then the last …
Ad Business Going Mad About Meta Data December 13, 2011 by Super User Anyone who produces creative or is tasked with the actual job of getting the right media to the right screen at the right time will find this interesting. MediaPost is reporting how Madison Avenue’s top trade associations are formally making a push to standardize metadata into the creative production process, with the goals of reducing …
rAVe: LCD Price-Fixing Suit Settled December 12, 2011 by Super User After the $585-million government fine for price-fixing, Sharp, Samsung, Chimei Innolux, LG and four other LCD manufacturers now must pay $388 million to settle the class-action suit from end users. The companies won’t admit to the crime, but they agreed on the settlement in a price fixing case from a 2007 class action lawsuit. That …
Canadian retailer Mark’s rolling out store redesigns with ADFLOW solution December 12, 2011 by Super User ADFLOW Networks seems to be on a bit of a roll lately. On the heels of a nice joint marketing deal with Acosta and an announced rollout of interactive health stations in Rite-Aid store, the Burlington, Ontario-based software firm is announcing a deal to be the digital signage provider “for all store redesign initiatives” for …
John Ryan bags 5-yr digital signage deal with global Top 20 bank December 2, 2011 by Super User With Europe and Spain in a bit of a financial pickle, it’s interesting and perhaps telling that a massive Spanish bank is going ahead with a digital screen network across its estate. Madrid-based BBVA, one of the Top 20 retail banks on the planet in terms of scale, has entered into a five-year agreement with …
