Albregts leaves Samsung for AmEx gig July 6, 2011 by Dave Haynes I’ve never actually met Doug Albregts, but was impressed with what he had to say a few weeks ago when he was talking about the commercial display panel business and digital signage prospects at the DisplaySearch/InfoComm conference. I figured I’d end up chatting with him at some point, but that’s probably not on (or relevant) …
enVu grows interactive mall network by more than 50% through new REIT deal July 6, 2011 by Dave HaynesenVu, which does sponsor-driven interactive floor projections in malls, has lifted the veil on a deal done with one of the larger U.S. shopping center groups – growing the installed base by roughly 53 percent. The deal with real estate investment trust General Growth Properties (GGP) got the company – a subsidiary of the software …
Digital signage sector had a pokey Q1, but improving now: PRI June 30, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe Platt Retail Institute says Q1 of this year was very pokey for the North American Digital Signage industry, showing the first overall decline in almost two years. PRI’s quarterly index, which compares Q1 2011 to Q4 2010, reports: The Current DS Index is down sharply from the 3.82 percent increase last quarter and fell …
LocaModa fires up social media-driven Community Board for Digital OOH networks June 29, 2011 by Dave HaynesLocaModa has announced a new service called Community Board 1.0 that allows any network – at least in theory – to integrate a broad, dynamic social element to the programming mix they power for clients. Graphically, says the release, Community Board 1.0 looks like a traditional community board and features the ability for consumers and …
indoorDIRECT closes deal to roll out to 5,600 Taco Bells June 29, 2011 by Dave HaynesIndoorDIRECT has reached a long term deal with Taco Bell Corp. to install the Restaurant Entertainment Network in all 5,600 QSRs in the U.S., creating a Digital OOH network with a monthly reach of 48 million people. The set-up includes in-store TV and free Wi-Fi – the latter being a mechanism to pull people in …
Sightings: Interactive product locator in Canadian Tire June 29, 2011 by Dave Haynes I have known the guys at Toronto-based Jibestream for more than a year and (disclosure) done some work with them here and there. They do interactive work for public-facing screens and have developed some very nice stuff, like a GIANT interactive wayfiding/directory piece in the concourse of Toronto’s Pearson T1 airport terminal. They have a …
Quebec's Desjardins bank deploys staff-facing digital signage dashboard solution June 29, 2011 by Dave HaynesBanks have long been seen as a primary application for customer-facing digital signage, and indeed a lot of banks are either now installed or in the process of deploying solutions. What’s not seen very often – at least not as far as I know – is staff-facing signage in banks. So the note I got …
AV giant Milestone lends hand to twister victims in its community June 27, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe great thing about DOOHgood is that it doesn’t take a lot of work to schedule a public service announcement spot into a digital signage network playlist, but it can have a real impact. So it is pretty cool to see a company in the space do a lot of real work to help disaster …
RMG exploring $250-million IPO June 22, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe Bloomberg news service is reporting that San Franisco-based RMG Networks is putting the components together for an estimated$250 million IPO that would, if it went out successfully, go a long way to making RMG the dominant Digital OOH network in North America. There are arguments to be made that the company already is among …
Would you drop $185K for .sign? June 21, 2011 by Dave HaynesWord Monday from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (aka ICANN) that just about any word out there could be a new top-level domain name – meaning .dumb is just like .com – got me thinking. Until I heard the price tag. Application fees are $185,000 and that just to apply. ICANN says that …
