Querin leaves Zoom Media (Canada) November 29, 2010 by Super UserThe 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 Super UserBenoit 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 …
Obscura Digital starts up DOOH bus derby on SF Bay shelters November 24, 2010 by Super UserFellow Preset member David Weinfeld has been hanging out lately with the Obscura Digital guys, the interactive/immersive firm perhaps best known for the multi-touch memorabilia wall at the Hard Rock Cafe on the south Las Vegas strip. He tweeted about a Yahoo! company blog post that’s now up, talking about the marketing campaigns the online …
Think BIGGER: Think Digital Signage Networks (rAVe video) November 24, 2010 by Super UserMy content partners over at rAVe [Publications] have pulled together a presentation and put it to video to make the case in the Pro AV sector for more companies to get involved in digital signage. “Think BIGGER: Think Digital Signage Networks (Why you should do DS)” walks viewers through the rationale for digital signage networks. …
LED staircase, interactive all over, in new Montreal store November 24, 2010 by Super UserJust about any old excuse will do to get me up to Montreal (great city), and now I have a new reason – the multimedia-rich, very cool new Videotron store on Montreal’s main shopping street. Judging by the video (below), the place is amazing. There is a giant, apparently working cellphone at the entry and …
NanoLumens gets big, curved profile at Vegas gaming expo November 23, 2010 by Super UserI’ve said to the NanoLumens guys one of the things I really like about their flexible LED technology is how it can conform to curved surfaces. They’ve said, “Yup, but we hardly get asked about that.” Slightly weird, given how many rounded walls and support columns are out there that wouldn’t look very good with …
National Retail Federation show adds dedicated digital signage area November 19, 2010 by Super UserA handful of digital signage software and gear companies have been at the big NRF show in New York in January for the last few years, but were scattered here and there around the show floor. The NRF and Digital Screenmedia Association people have reached an agreement that will see the sector organized into what …
Scala's Jeff Porter: Why the HP deal is big (and not a yawn-fest) November 19, 2010 by Super UserSchedules conspired against us, but Jeff Porter from Scala and I finally sync’d up this morning and he walked me through a demo of the new program they have with HP – a program I called a big yawn when it was announced recently. I wasn’t getting tingles because HP was marketing digital signage on …
Brewer activates mobile with billboard coupons November 19, 2010 by Super UserBack at HQ after two days on the Wet Coast with a client. There’s lots of collective hand-wringing out there about how digital signage works with mobile, and the people who really know both say there a lots of ways – notably the promotion and activation of mobile engagement with brands. Here’s an interesting example …
