CODACAN's 2nd ADLYMPICS to promote DigitalOOH set for next week May 13, 2011 by Super UserThe Canadian Out-of-Home Digital Association (CODACAN) has its second annual ADLYMPICS set up for next week in Toronto. This year’s event so far has 16 ad agency teams registered, and several sponsors, including LG, Intel and the Steam Whistle Brewery. The format is a series of loopy sports events, with agency teams competing over the …
Digital signage tech jobs open up in Waterloo, Montreal May 13, 2011 by Super UserCineplex Digital Solutions (known until acquisition last year as DDC) is looking for an Operations Manager to work out of the company’s offices in Waterloo, Ontario – down the road from where BlackBerries and Christie displays are conceived. The job reports to president Stuart Kirkpatrick, but if you can get past that, it’s a gig …
Posterscope names new head of US Digital OOH unit May 11, 2011 by Super UserMedia sales people who do the rounds of the big New York agencies have a new guy to get interested in their pots and pans. Martin Porter is the VP and Director of Hyperspace, the Digital OOH and technology specialty division of OOH planning giant Posterscope. Porter, a Brit, will be in charge of leading …
Last reminder: Toronto digital signage mixer tonight May 10, 2011 by Super User A final reminder to people in the Toronto area that tonight is the digital signage and digital out of home mixer. The event host this time around is Rise Vision, and its president Byron Darlison. We now have roughly 55 people registered, a big, healthy crowd, and we expect more to just show up. …
Flanigan signs on with Rise Vision as VP Marketing May 9, 2011 by Super User Pleased to crack open the email this morning and see that Paul Flanigan has signed on with Rise Vision as their Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. Flanigan worked with Pat Hellberg and I to start The Preset Group a couple of years ago but we very amicably parted ways last fall, as Paul …
DFW's AMA chapter running Digital OOH session next week May 6, 2011 by Super UserThis is nice to see … The Dallas-Forth Worth chapter of the American Marketing Association has organized a lunch and learn session next Friday on “The Evolution and Future of Digital Out-of-Home.” At the Studio Movie Grill in Dallas on May 13th, three experts with personal knowledge of the Digital Out Of Home craft will …
Querin joins Zoom rival KB Media May 3, 2011 by Super UserToronto-based KB Media has hired on Andy Querin as president and chief operating officer of the Digital OOH company, a few months after parting ways with competitor Zoom Media, where he was president. “Andy is a major acquisition for KB Media and will play a vital role in cementing our position as Canada’s most effective ad …
Introducing DOOHgood: digital screens for relief efforts and causes April 28, 2011 by Super UserDOOH4relief was the near-instant and widely embraced effort to use Digital OOH and digital signage screens to drive donations to the Red Cross societies in several countries to relief efforts in Japan. We need to develop some numbers around that still, but what was clear is that the spots produced by companies ran on scores …
Martin formally joins SeeSaw April 27, 2011 by Super UserBob Martin didn’t take long to pick up another gig after leaving RMG Networks. He departed prior to DSE and is now walking around with cards saying VP Business Development for SeeSaw Networks. It’s his job to build up the number of network partners with the firm, which like Martin is based in the SF …
Ardinger new president of Digital Screenmedia Association April 27, 2011 by Super UserNanonation’s Brian Ardinger is the new president of the Digital Screenmedia Association. Ardinger, the SVP & Chief Marketing Officer for Nanonation, was named at the same time as a new advisory board. Brian is on the right in this photo. Other officers elected include: Executive Vice President – Digital Signage: Lou Giacalone, Founder CoolSign, Haivision Executive …
