Follow The Money Dep’t: OAAA Says Outdoor Spend Up 4.2% In 2012 March 5, 2013 by Dave Haynes OOH advertising revenue rose 4.2%, to $6.7 billion, based on new figures from the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, aka OAAA. The OAAA also said OOH revenue figures were up 3.4% in Q4, compared to 2011. That was the 11th straight quarter with an uptick. “Out of home continues to perform well year after year, …
Ronin Looking For $1.56M In Direct Public Offering March 5, 2013 by Dave Haynes With money on hand running out, Wireless Ronin has announced an agreement to sell approximately $1.56 million of its securities in a registered direct offering. The Minneapolis-based digital signage software and services firm will “issue 868,000 units at a price of $1.80 per unit, with each unit consisting of (i) one share of common stock, and …
Mixer Wrap-Up And 2014 Plans March 5, 2013 by Dave Haynes I sent off an email to everyone who registered for last week’s mixer, thanking them for coming out (297 did) and asking for comments. A separate email went to sponsors. The consensus seems to be that the venue was ideal in location, size, style and service – so our much-travelled little event may finally have …
Intel And Sapient Demo’d Nice Interactive Retail Piece At DSE (with Video) March 5, 2013 by Dave Haynes I have seen some stuff at Intel’s booth at past DSEs that I thought were interesting but didn’t have a prayer of ever getting outside a trade show booth environment. But as I squeezed and slipped my way through Intel’s glass corral last week I saw some stuff that I thought had legs. The one …
“Thought Leadership” In Pulp Magazine Form March 5, 2013 by Dave Haynes If digital signage content conferences had pulp magazine covers … Courtesy of a strange but very cool service called Pulp-O-Mizer.
RMG Revives DirecTV Bar Product As ChalkboxTV March 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes At DSE a year ago RMG Networks and DirecTV launched Message Board, a small business product aimed at adding entry-level reverse L marketing messages on TV screens in places like bars. There was a big dinner at a very nice restaurant in the City Center with very nice wine (which I missed because of the …
Symon Merger Continues RMG Path To Going Public March 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes There is a very high quotient of securities lawyer blah-blah in this announcement, but as far as I can figure this is part of the expectation that RMG Networks will go public this year. Symon Communications announced at the end of last week that it was merging with SCG Financial Acquisition Corp., described as a …
Detail: BroadSign’s New $99 Android Player March 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes A lot of people I chatted with last week mentioned BroadSign’s re-emergence at Digital Signage Expo in a full booth (this time last year they’d announced Chapter 11 re-structuring) and the unveiling of a $99 Android-based player. Going Android is in no way unique, but what distinguishes what BroadSign is doing from many of the …
79 Ways To Use Android For Digital Signage March 4, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here is a list of the digital signage software and related companies that now have Android products on the market, sorted alphabetically after the featured (advertising) companies (as of Nov. 2015): FEATURED CAPITAL NETWORKS MARKHAM, ON CANADA RISE VISION TORONTO, ON, CANADA BROADSIGN MONTREAL, QC, CANADA MVIX USA FULL LIST Admira (Spain) AdServe …
List: DSE 2013 Apex Digital Signage Project Awards March 3, 2013 by Dave Haynes Here are the Apex Award winners announced at last week’s Digital Signage Expo. The awards are for project execution. The DSE 2013 Apex Award of the Year: Build-A-Bear Workshop, Nominated by Build-A-Bear Workshop Arts, Entertainment & Recreation: GOLD: Westfield San Francisco Centre, Nominated by Obscura Digital SILVER: Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, Nominated by Intermedia Touch Inc. BRONZE: Mansfield …
