Weinfeld signs on with ScreenReach as CSO May 18, 2011 by Dave HaynesAnother one of the kids leaves home … UK-based social-mobile start-up ScreenReach Interactive is establishing a full-time US presence and has brought David Weinfeld on as its man on this side of the pond, as well as the small firm’s Chief Strategy Officer. David has been a part of The Preset Group pretty much since its …
LoveContent judges decide what they really loved May 13, 2011 by Dave HaynesUK-based industry group The Screen has released its LoveContent Awards nominee list, with winners to announced at next week’s big ScreenMedia Expo 2011 in London. The judging panel worked their way through over 120 submissions to single out 13 of the very best digital-out-of-home campaigns across the five creative award categories. The nominations covering the …
CODACAN's 2nd ADLYMPICS to promote DigitalOOH set for next week May 13, 2011 by Dave HaynesThe 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 Dave HaynesCineplex 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 Dave HaynesMedia 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave Haynes 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 Dave HaynesThis 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 Dave HaynesToronto-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 Dave HaynesDOOH4relief 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 …
