Canuck health and wellness retailer switches systems/networks May 13, 2010 by Dave HaynesJust about exactly a year ago there was a press release out about health and wellness retailer Nutrition House doing a deal with ScreenScape to run its digital signage offer in its stores. Now there’s an announcement saying Nutrition House has done a deal with Marketplace Station, a different Canadian digital signage solutions and network …
AdFlow bags another wireless retailer May 12, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe AdFlow guys up the road from me (I can just about see their building from my roof … when I am up there threatening to jump) have found a nice little niche in the digital signage retail marketplace working with wireless retailers. They already had a few clients from that sector and just signed …
Financial Times: Big retail now investing heavily in digital May 11, 2010 by Dave HaynesThere’s an interesting piece today in the UK Financial Times about big American retailers coming to grips with the huge changes being brought on by smart phones and digital. … three years after Apple launched its first iPhone, the advent of what retailers call “mobile connectivity” is profoundly shaking up the way retailers do business, …
The new look May 10, 2010 by Dave HaynesWell, I think that was easy … This is the new look site and it seemed way too easy to cut over and make it live. In fact, I need to do some more tweaking on the directory side and get a revised RSS feed running. I am on WordPress now (bye Joomla, and “Pffffft!”) and …
Today's whopper, brought to you by the CEO of Scala May 1, 2010 by Dave HaynesAnd I quote: “No one today has a digital signage offering for small business owners to deploy and manage themselves. SignChannel is the first,” said Gerard Bucas, Chief Executive Officer, Scala. “By leveraging low-cost media players such as wireless photo frames and Scala’s template capability, a small to medium business owner can easily set up their own …
Pumptop pushing the accepted boundaries on what constitutes DOOH content programming April 27, 2010 by Dave HaynesOne of the things I tend to rail away about is how few network operators spend much time considering their content programming, with the result being endless variations on a mix of weather, news headlines, sports scores and soft content. As stated in the past, content is an after-thought – the stuff between the ads. …
Deadline starting to count down on BlueMaxx digital signage-meets-mobile award April 27, 2010 by Dave HaynesCompanies that are pushing the envelope by using integrated media – like mobile – are being encouraged to tell their story and enter to win the first BlueMaxx Award, a new recognition program developed and sponsored by Stratacache. As disclosure, I was asked a couple of months back to be one of the judges on …
If content is king, where's the Content King??? April 26, 2010 by Dave HaynesThis is such an odd little sector. By the count of Bill Gerba and his company Wirespring, there are some 330 firms out there peddling some form of Digital Signage software platform. Let’s be conservative and say each of those platforms has at least 20 clients. That’s more than 6,500 networks that are running anywhere from …
New digital signage user group and forum established; organizer hoping for pitch-free zone April 25, 2010 by Dave HaynesThere have been a few stabs here and there at trying online discussion forums on digital signage and DOOH, and I think it’s is entirely fair to say none of them have caught on. There are a few things that stall them … They look like ghost towns when people come across these forums in …
DSE asking speakers to figure out what they'll talk about 10 months from now … good luck with that April 23, 2010 by Dave HaynesIn an industry that is changing rather quickly, it’s a little curious to see a trade show calling for presentation proposals now for an event that opens 10 months from today – but that what Digital Signage Expo is doing. The deadline to get proposals in is mid-June – 8.5 months out. If you make the …