Flanigan wants the microphone August 24, 2010 by Super UserWhen I get asked … and it happens fairly regularly … what’s holding back this sector, I have a quick, very easy answer. Education. Everybody could stand to learn a lot more about the opportunities and challenges, and nuts and bolts of this thing. Just about every day I see examples of people who really …
Who's hiring? Context Media, for one August 3, 2010 by Super UserRishi Shah, the bright young guy who founded and runs Chicago-based ContextMedia, sent a note around looking for some help in getting the word out that his firm is hiring. ContextMedia is preparing to launch a major growth campaign to acquire new physician offices and I’d like to ask for your help as we recruit …
Scala picks up Nix August 3, 2010 by Super UserCongratulations to Tom Nix, who has been scooped up by Scala, having bridged his departure from Dynamx with a year or so helping Magenta Research out with marketing. Says this morning’s news release, Nix is now Vice President of American Operations. In this role, he will be responsible for overseeing the U.S., Latin America and Oceania …
"Retail Geek" Goldberg leaves MTI; pondering next moves July 30, 2010 by Super UserI have tons of respect for Jason Goldberg, who has been active on the edges of digital signage through his work with MTI and his long-running blog, Retail Geek. Somehow or other I noticed recently that he’d left his VP Marketing gig at MTI, so I sent him a note to find out what’s up. …
Media vet Wolff releases white paper on selling DOOH July 26, 2010 by Super UserIf you attend the annual Digital Signage Expo – and particularly if you are more deeply involved – the name Geri Wolff is probably familiar. She handles media and media relations for the event, as well as the Digital Signage Federation, through her firm Market Works. What you might not know is that she has …
Three birthday candles for DailyDOOH July 25, 2010 by Super UserWhen little kids turn three they stop a lot of their babbling and start to form coherent sentences, so we’re hoping the same thing will now apply with DailyDOOH and its crack team. ;-] More seriously, happy three years to Adrian and the kids at DailyDOOH, which I think can be safely assessed as the …
RMG adds Yahoo's CMO to board July 19, 2010 by Super UserRMG Networks, aka Reach Media Group, has added Elisa Steele, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Yahoo!, to its Board of Directors. Steele oversees the company’s global marketing strategy and therefore controls a budget that included a $100 million ad campaign last year and another one this spring that cost an estimated $75-$85 …
Audience counting gets a yappy new advocate in Mark Cuban July 19, 2010 by Super UserI just invested in a company that takes video of an area and can tell you exactly how many people are in the capture area at any given time. It’s great for traffic patterns, security, and much more. We are posting cameras in certain environments where anonymity is required, and we don’t and won’t capture …
OBN shutting down LED board business July 16, 2010 by Super UserSad to relay news that Canada’s Outdoor Broadcast Network (aka OBN) is shutting down its national LED board network, having decided there isn’t enough money yet in the still emerging DOOH marketplace to warrant the reinvestment capital needed for upgraded displays. The company, started and run by my old Elevator News Network colleagues Peter Irwin …
Digital Signage Federation adds standards group; chairs for other committees July 1, 2010 by Super UserWell, I thought the tomato fight between the Digital Screenmedia Association and the fledgling Digital Signage Federation might be sorted by now, but both are still moving along parallel, separate tracks as far as I can tell. maybe it won’t get sorted??? The DSF has created a new standards committee and got Ken Goldberg, the CEO …
