Broadcast International Makes $8M, Loses $8M March 30, 2012 by Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 …
Latest Ronin Financials Show Improving Revenues, But Continuing Losses March 12, 2012 by Dave Haynes Wireless Ronin Technologies financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ending Dec. 31, 2011, which came out late last week, show the company had a record revenue year but not enough to avoid another year finishing deep in the red. The digital signage software company based in Minneapolis, one of few that are …
Subway’s Digital Screen Network, Run By Real Digital Media, at 1,000 Sites And Expanding March 6, 2012 by Dave Haynes Quietly, very quietly, Real Digital Media has been growing something called the SUBWAY TV & RADIO Digital Signage Network in the QSR’s independently-owned franchises in the United States. Now the company is making a little hay about it – saying the network is approaching 1,000 sites and set to expand beyond the U.S. Sarasota, Florida-based Real …
Ecast Unplugs March 5, 2012 by Dave Haynes Vending Times is reporting that Ecast Inc. shut down its jukebox music network last week, the San Francisco-based technology firm out of operating capital. “We worked diligently for this not to happen,” said Ecast vice-president of network operations Scott Walker. “We appreciate all the support from jukebox operators and the industry.” Walker, who joined the jukebox …
BroadSign Files For Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection March 5, 2012 by Dave Haynes BroadSign International has filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy papers in a Delaware court, seeking protection from creditors. Technically based in Boise, Idaho but in operating terms a Montreal company, the SaaS software company focused on digital OOH networks has debts listed of between $10 million to $50 million and assets of $1 million to $10 million, …
