How digital signage and mobile can play nice: webinar December 10, 2010 by Dave HaynesPreset’s wicked-smart David Weinfeld is doing a webinar for the Digital Signage Federation next week called Mobile and Digital Signage are Allies, not Adversaries. It’s Dec. 16 at 1 pm EST. The rise of mobile applications and smartphones shouldn’t stir fear in the minds of digital signage executives. It should enhance their optimism about digital signage …
LG's US structure intact despite global switch-ups December 3, 2010 by Dave HaynesThere must have been a bunch of speculation and uncertainty out there to prompt LG to issue a “News Alert” to effectively reiterate that nothing’s changed in its US display business operations. This just popped up in my Inbox: In the wake of reports about a global corporate restructuring affecting the LG Electronics Business Solutions …
Ghigliotty heads back to agency land; going out with bang December 2, 2010 by Dave HaynesSaw this tweet last night from Stephen Ghigliotty, who’s been in and around the digital signage sector for a bunch of years … Accepted a great job offer today; ad agency here in Toronto with great clients. Looking forward to working across all media-TV, Radio, etc. Ghigliotty had been building up his ScreenVox specialty agency …
RMG's CEO on 2011 as tipping point year. Really. Finally. November 30, 2010 by Dave HaynesEvery year for what seems like a buncha years (save 2009), people in the the digital signage and DOOH sectors have done look-aheads and labeled the coming year as the tipping point – the big moment when the business gas pedal gets punched. Well … we know how that’s gone so far. But Garry McGuire, …
Querin leaves Zoom Media (Canada) November 29, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe company website and Linked In both confirm that Zoom Media’s long-time President and COO for Canada, Andy Querin, has left the company. As I understand it, from a separate source, it wasn’t his idea. Toronto-based Querin had a series of responsibilities with the company since joining in May 2002, and has been in charge …
Guest Post: What I find awesome in digital signage November 26, 2010 by RajiI am pretty connected with TED, having organized and run a couple of independent TEDx events in Toronto in the past year or so. A friend sent a link to another TEDx Talk that went off recently here in Toronto (missed it), and I found the video to be pretty awesome. The talk, by writer …
VIF hits 1,000 digital signage screen milestone in Quebec November 25, 2010 by Dave HaynesBenoit Johnson, who runs Montreal-based VIF Communication, sent a note along to note his company just installed digital signage display no. 1,000 on its managed networks in Québec. The bulk of those screens are in the fresh produce sections of some 200 IGA supermarkets around the province, which are intended to influence purchase behavior. VIF is also …
DSF skeds pre-DSE golf tourney October 27, 2010 by Dave HaynesThe Digital Signage Federation is organizing a golf day on the Monday of Digital Signage Expo week in Lost Wages. The event runs on Feb. 21st, a day ahead of the DSE’s pre-conference programming. It is a shot-gun start mid-morning at TPC Las Vegas, which I will assume is really really hard. I also assume …
DSE Industry Forum: My thoughts October 11, 2010 by Dave HaynesI have been off the grid for a few days because I was at a resort near San Diego that was the site of Digital Signage Expo’s first Industry Forum. I’ll go into some detail below, but in a word, it was terrific. Exponation, which runs DSE and was trying this format for the first …
Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canucks October 11, 2010 by Dave HaynesIf it is difficult today raising your clients or suppliers in Canada today, it is because it is a national holiday. While Thanksgiving is Thursday in late November for Americans, it is the second Monday in October for Canadians. It does not have a place as high in the holiday pecking order as it does …