DPAA's new prez now official-ish: Susan Danaher September 7, 2010 by Dave HaynesThis has not been confirmed but DailyDOOH spoke to Susan Danaher in her new office at the Digital Place-Based Advertising Association offices today. She is the new president, replacing Suzanne Laforgia who left to joing RMG Networks. Danaher sat on the old OVAB board for a couple of years when she was president of Reactrix. …
Spicer recruited to run NEC's VUKUNET August 24, 2010 by Dave HaynesThis was smart. NEC Displays announced today it has hired on Graeme Spicer to head the effort to spread the understanding and adoption of its VUKUNET digital signage platform, which includes the universal advertising platform and a free content management suite. Graeme let me know about this a few weeks ago and he’s actually be …
Flanigan wants the microphone August 24, 2010 by Dave HaynesWhen 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 Dave HaynesRishi 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 Dave HaynesCongratulations 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 Dave HaynesI 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 Dave HaynesIf 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 Dave HaynesWhen 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 Dave HaynesRMG 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 Dave HaynesI 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 …