LocaModa Enters US Presidential Race (Well, Sorta Kinda) August 1, 2012 by Dave Haynes Months ago I asked a guy who has worked in politics inside the Washington, DC beltway whether things like real-time smart phopne polling and social had a role at big political events in the 2012 US National elections. No way, he said. Too little control over the message, and therefore too much risk. Made sense. …
PRN Renews In-Store Deal With Costco; Adds 3D July 30, 2012 by Dave Haynes Premier Retail Networks has renewed its in-store media network deal with wholesale giant Costco, and is adding a 3D content channel to its programming. PRN has been in Costco since 2004, and has screens running in some 400 of the giant big box stores. Unless I missed it, the network does not extend into Canada. …
Canada’s Olympics HQ Gets Interactive Christie Display Walls Through Games July 30, 2012 by Dave Haynes Christie Digital has worked a partnership with Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade’s that sees a couple of big display walls running through the Olympics at Canada Olympic House in Trafalgar Square. The space is the Canadian Olympic Committee’s space for athletes, families and friends, and is also something of a trade mission …
3D Display Firms Sign LOI For Acquisition July 26, 2012 by Dave Haynes The consolidation and shakeout on the software side of this sector is also happening on the niche display side. A glasses-free 3D display firm is in the process of acquiring another firm doing the same thing, albeit in different ways. Tulsa-based 3DIcon Corporation, which does volumetric, three-dimensional display technologies, has reached a letter of intent …
Colombia’s Biggest Digital OOH Player Goes With BroadSign July 24, 2012 by Dave Haynes BroadSign has bagged the deal to provide the management and ad targeting platform for Colombia’s biggest digital signage network operator, Enmedio Comunicacion Digital. Enmedio Advertising Networks has screens in more than 830 high-traffic venues across the country, while a corporate business unit has 150 screens running for high-profile companies such as Citibank, Dupont and Coca-Cola. …
LG Gets EzSign TV On Shelves At Fry’s, But Will It Sell? July 24, 2012 by Dave Haynes LG is taking a crack at trying to sell a bundled solution out of retail, aimed presumably at the small business crowd that doesn’t know much beyond the basic “want” of a screen running stuff in their venues. The question is whether that crowd – which will tend to be driven by price and oblivious …
Stratacache Opens Digital Menu Board Experience Center July 24, 2012 by Dave Haynes Probably the hottest vertical in the digital signage sector – and for a while now – is digital menu boards. Piles and piles of quick service restaurant operators are cutting over because of operating cost and hassle reductions, and the reliably positive impacts on sales and order sizes. The software company Stratacache has probably won …
RMG’s Fitness Network Bought By Salon Network Holding Co July 19, 2012 by Dave Haynes Orion Equity Holdings has reached a deal to buy the assets and broadcasting agreements of RMG Network’s Fitness Entertainment Network. The deal should close within 30 days but, says a release, Orion “expects the closed transaction to be immediately accretive.” So I looked up accretive and I still have no idea what that means. The acquired …
Preset Mixer 2013 Taking Shape (inc. video) July 19, 2012 by Dave Haynes It is only 184 sleeps (or something, screw the necessary math work) until the 2013 Preset Group Mixer in Lost Wages. More traditionally, I would wake up in a cold sweat sometime in January and realize, “Oh yeah, I should start organizing this thing.” For a change, I am getting myself organized way in advance, …
Microsoft Buying Touch Display Maker Perceptive Pixel July 9, 2012 by Dave Haynes Microsoft has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Perceptive Pixel, which makes gorgeous, highly responsive and wildly expensive multi-touch displays. “The acquisition of PPI allows us to draw on our complementary strengths, and we’re excited to accelerate this market evolution,” says Kurt DelBene, president, Office Division for Microsoft. “PPI’s large touch displays, when combined …
