Danaher Steps Down At DPAA; Joins Adspace March 14, 2013 by Dave Haynes Sue Danaher has resigned as president and CEO of the the Digital Place-based Advertising Association (DPAA), letting her contract lapse at the end of this month and taking a senior job with the mall advertising network Adspace. Mike DiFranza, DPAA board chairman and president/founder of Captivate Network, said in a release that Danaher informed the …
First The Fountain, Then The Pile (Of Awards) February 20, 2013 by Dave Haynes My friends at Arsenal Media are a proud and humbled bunch as they head down in a few days to Digital Signage Expo to switch on the Fountain of Content and pick up a few armfuls of well-earned awards. Projects involving the Montreal-based company will win awards in 11 categories at the 2013 DSE Apex …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Cineplex Digital Solutions February 18, 2013 by Dave Haynes The original DSE Mixer was a near impromptu thing held at a very strange but oddly cool place on the strip, with lots of red velvet, brass and flaming fire pools. I’d never been there when I told readers, “Hey, let’s go there!!!” So I walk in, and the first two people I see at …
Preset DSE Mixer Attendee Word Cloud February 18, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here’s what the mob looks like in terms of job titles at the Preset Group Mixer next week. Looks like about 100 or so of the folks have either CEO or President on their business cards, or both.
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Chief/Milestone AV February 17, 2013 by Dave Haynes If there is connective tissue in this goofy little sector, it’s the mount and rack companies with the gear that puts displays in place and makes deployments work, and who provide a lot of overall support for the industry. Companies like Chief are always investing directly in the trade shows, in educational work, and in …
Preset Mixer: Who’s Going (Chart) February 16, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here’s a look at how the nearly 350 people coming to the mixer breaks down in terms of what they do. The actual number of end-users is higher than that (I have a non-official list and also see how people are registered). But I wouldn’t expect a whole pile of end-users coming to DSE for …
Mixer Sponsor Profiles: Multiband USA February 12, 2013 by Dave Haynes The Preset Mixer is now just two weeks out and it is time to start profiles of the great companies that kindly chipped in financial support to pull off an event for some 300 people. First up is Multiband, which in very broad strokes does digital signage deployments. I asked Matt Weldon, the National Sales Director of …
Guzzle Energy Drink, Make It To Lightning Round February 11, 2013 by Dave Haynes So Day 2 of 2, at 4 PM, is not my idea of the feature speaking slot at a trade show, but hopefully a pile of people will grab a coffee or one of those crazily-overpriced cans of caffeine and make their way to the DSE session my Preset Group partner Pat Hellberg is running …
Stratacache Putting Big Focus On Asian Opportunities February 11, 2013 by Dave Haynes There are two companies in this space right now finding their way into the final consideration stage of many or most of the big digital signage jobs: Four Winds (who I wrote about the other day after its Forbes Top 50 listing) and Stratacache. They are wildly different companies in terms of corporate culture, software …
Four Winds Gets Top 50 Ranking Among Forbes’ Most Promising US Firms February 8, 2013 by Dave Haynes Denver-based Four Winds Interactive has been ranked #41 in Forbes magazine’s annual ranking of America’s Most Promising Companies, which is a list of 100 privately-held, high-flying companies. David Levin, President and CEO of FWi, was also pegged by the business publication as one of America’s Most Promising CEOs Under 35. The company, which does digital signage …
