Capital’s Audience Driving Torch Relay Coverage On BBC’s Public Screens July 6, 2012 by Dave Haynes The London Olympics are now three weeks away and the media attention is starting to really amp up, particularly in the UK. The Olympic Torch Relay is being covered by the BBC and along with being shown on broadcast, it is being relayed to the masses on large public screens in 22 towns and cities,including London, …
Canada 3.0 Moves From Small Town To Big City July 5, 2012 by Dave Haynes I quite liked the Canada 3.0 digital media forum and trade show I went to this spring, though I wondered what on Earth it was doing in a small town’s recreation centre. So were some others, apparently. Stratford is a beautiful little town (and known widely for its Shakespeare theatre), and the venue and people …
Pattison Onestop Opens The Ad Shop July 4, 2012 by Dave Haynes Pattison Onestop, aka the digital division of Toronto-based Pattison Outdoor Advertising, launched a new service today aimed squarely at the hard to sell and service small business sector. Called The Ad Shop, the service aggregates all of the company’s digital inventory online to allow easy buying and targeting, and makes templates available to build low …
Signagelive Gets A Brazilian July 3, 2012 by Dave Haynes Oh, the dreaded grip and grin photo … This is one between Raffi Vartian of signagelive and a group of guys from Brazil who are the key people in a company called JBTec, which is now the preferred distributor for the UK-based SaaS product in the red-hot Brazilian market. “JBTec is extremely happy to have Signagelive’s …
Digital Signage Platform Adds Phone On-hold Messaging. No, Really. June 27, 2012 by Dave Haynes Differentiation is important in a crowded marketplace, as you don’t want to go in selling something that dozens of other companies also have. On that count, Louisville, KY-based Captive Indoor Media is definitely differentiated from the digital signage software mob – as it has added on-hold telephone messaging to its digital signage software offer. Connect the …
Chief Tweaks Canadian Sales, Goes Direct June 26, 2012 by Dave Haynes I’ve long known and thought of Dave Galos as the Chief guy in Canada, and now he really is the Chief guy in Canada. The company, which makes the mounts displays and other gear get hung off of in digital signage projects, had been partnering with EIKI Canada to sell and distribute products via ChiefMounts …
Rise Vision Formally Goes Free June 26, 2012 by Dave Haynes Rise Vision has had a freemium model in place for some time now, with a tiered offer that got you to a kind of all-you-can-eat network operator account for $150/month. But now the Toronto-based company – which has been doing digital signage (starting with LED financial data boards) for 20 years – has gone all …
Tokyo’s Narita Airport Invests Big In Digital Signage June 26, 2012 by Dave Haynes Mitsubishi has finished the rollout of what it calls “Japan’s largest digital signage system” at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport, with some 336 displays fixed individually and in clusters around the terminals. I have my doubts it is really the biggest network in that country, but maybe the biggest in an airport, or in one venue, …
Thomson Reuters Sticks With Wireless Ronin, But Changes Business Model June 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes It looks like Wireless Ronin is hanging on to (despite chatter to the contrary) and transitioning its relationship with information giant Thomson Reuters from a product called Infopoint -which has been around for several years – to something called Thomson Reuters Knowledge Direct Digital Signage, or TRKDDS for short (I’m kidding). The Infopoint system was a …
Photo: W3C Web-based Signage Event in Japan June 15, 2012 by Dave Haynes This is the angry mob that met this week in Japan to talk about standards for web-based digital signage. John Wang of IAdea attended and is probably in this crowd somewhere. He wrote up a preview and will hopefully send along his impressions as the event concludes.
