Marketing: BroadSign Launches Women In Digital Signage Series May 1, 2013 by Dave Haynes BroadSign has taken a couple of very different – for this sector – marketing steps of late. They’ve hired a dedicated writer to work on marketing and communications material, and the company is producing written material that isn’t the same old Five Keys To Digital Signage BlahBlah ZZZzzzz. I saw BroadSign lifer Dan Parisien down …
LocaModa Founder Records Crowdsourced Song For Boston April 26, 2013 by Dave Haynes The digital signage and digital OOH community knows Stephen Randall as the acerbic founder of social media content integration company Locamoda, which is based in Boston. Not as many know he’s also a musician and has been for years, even working as a professional songwriter earlier in his career. So when the bombs went off …
Stratacache Hires On Industry Vet Russell Young April 23, 2013 by Dave Haynes Russell Young has signed on with STRATACACHE as the company’s SVP of Interactive and Mobile Experiences, having recently left the very good but very expensive SapientNitro agency, where he’d been for the last few years. My understanding is several people, Young included, got bingo’d right after DSE. Young is probably better known in the industry …
Jobs: Cineplex Looking For Executive Director, Customer Engagement (Toronto) April 15, 2013 by Dave Haynes There are not a a lot of people who will meet up with the criteria for this gig, but it’s a good one for the right person. Cineplex Digital Media is looking for an Executive Director, Customer Engagement, a job based in Toronto. The job description says: Key Areas of Responsibilities: Ability to develop a …
Coxcom Marks 15 Years Deploying Screens April 11, 2013 by Dave Haynes Dave Spence at Toronto-based deployment firm Coxcom sent a note over to say he and his colleagues just marked 15 years in business, starting in satellite but adding in digital signage about a decade ago. “Some of the earliest deployments for what would emerge as the Digital Signage industry were piloted by Coxcom using CRT …
Arsenal Media Adds US Presence With New Miami-Based Sales Director April 2, 2013 by Dave Haynes Arsenal Media has been doing business in the US for several years now, but the Montreal company has always been kn0wn, logically enough, as a Montreal/Canadian company. Doing business south of the border can be a LOT easier for a Canadian company when you have somebody down there, full-time, shaking trees. That changed a few …
Canada Launches Start-Up Visa To Attract Entrepreneurs Through Fast-Tracked Residency April 1, 2013 by Dave Haynes There’s been lots of chatter in the last 2-3 years about the need change immigration laws to attract tech entrepreneurs and keep brilliant young minds in North America after they finish college in the US or Canada. There’s hasn’t been much progress in gridlocked Washington, but a new program has started today in Canada that …
ComQi Tweaks Executive Team; Titles March 28, 2013 by Dave Haynes There have been all kinds of stories drifting around lately about a big shakeup involving ComQi, but the actual story isn’t all that seismic. Ajay Chowdhury is shifting from CEO to Executive Chairman of the company (still a full-time gig), while COO/CFO Ifti Ifhar (pictured on right) becomes CEO. Stu Armstrong gets a new handle as …
Taiwan Digital Signage Forum Looking For Speaker March 19, 2013 by Dave Haynes Taiwan’s Digital Signage Multimedia Association has its annual Digital Signage Forum on Friday, June 7th in Taipei, and has a call out for a speaker who can do 30 minutes on where the industry os at and where it is going. The DSMA will reimburse air and two nights hotel for whoever sticks up their …
NanoLumens Hangs Out With The Hipsters At SXSW March 18, 2013 by Dave Haynes The boys from NanoLumens got to hang out with the cool kids and fedora-wearing hipsters at last week’s SXSW event in Austin, TX – providing some of its light, thin and custom-shaped LED displays for some interactive work shown off by Austin-based interactive firm Mass Relevance. The Atlanta company has posted a series of pix …
