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OMAC Announces 2016 OOH Conference: ACTIVEZ

Tuesday, May 17th, 2016

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

The Out-of-Home Marketing Association (OMAC) is hosting ACTIVEZ, an OOH conference on Tuesday October 18th at Theatre St. James in Montreal. ACTIVEZ is a half-day conference that will bring together industry leaders to discuss how data and technology are fueling innovation and shaping the future of OOH. New research will be presented on the value […]

Spring Partners With Largest US Shopping Mall Operators To Expand Network To 300+ Malls

Monday, May 16th, 2016

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Chicago-based Spring, whose platform that connects digital marketing with real-time payment data and in-store sales, has announced partnerships with four of the largest shopping mall operators in the US, expanding the reach of the network to over 300 malls across all 50 states. These partnerships with Simon Property Group, Starwood Retail Partners, Taubman Centers and […]

Union Station’s Digital Columns Real-Time Game Updates

Monday, May 16th, 2016

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Friday night, May 13, 2016, game-changing technology brought the excitement of the Toronto Raptors playoff basketball game off the courts and into the concourse at Toronto’s Union Station. During Game 6, every time the Raptors made a three-point shot, fans in the GO York Concourse could watch the six digital column wraps display a simultaneous […]

What SPACE Means For UK Buyers And Sellers

Monday, May 16th, 2016

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

If you aren’t familiar with SPACE, you’re not necessarily alone: Unless you are either an Out-of-Home or Digital Out-of-Home media owner or a media buyer specialized in buying OOH and DOOH media in the UK, chances are that you may not yet have heard of it. That is all about to change as SPACE forms […]

Get The Latest on @LinkNYC in London This Week

Monday, May 16th, 2016

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

LinkNYC, the free municipal Wi-Fi network units paid for entirely by advertising currently being rolled out in NYC streets, now has 195 Links installed. To date, the Links have been accessed almost 2.5 million times and are gaining about 15,000 new users per week. This Tuesday May 17 Intersection’s Chief Strategy Officer Dave Etherington is presenting […]

Cinema Advertising Council Joins The Video Advertising Bureau

Saturday, May 14th, 2016

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Coming out of New York is news that the Cinema Advertising Council (CAC), the national trade association serving cinema advertising networks and the theatrical exhibition community, will join the Video Advertising Bureau (VAB), which represents the programmers and distributors of multiscreen TV content. The deal, effectively a merger of operations, creates a single industry voice […]

Planar’s Next-Generation Clarity Visual Control Station Video Wall Processor

Friday, May 13th, 2016

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Portland, Oregan-based Planar, a Leyard company and a key player in display and digital signage technology, and Leyard, a visualization products company, have launched the next-generation Clarity Visual Control Station video wall processor, which includes significant improvements that simplify the capture, management and display of video wall content. The updated Clarity VCS builds on Planar’s […]

Q1 2016 @RMGNetworks Results

Friday, May 13th, 2016

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

RMG Networks Holding Corporation or RMG Networks, Dallas-based provider of technology-driven visual communications solutions, has announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2016. Highlights of the report include: Total revenues of $8.7 million, decreased 7% year-over-year from $9.3 million; Product sales revenues increased 25% year-over-year, to $3.9 million from $3.1 million; […]

Global Eagle Entertainment Acquires Emerging Markets Communications

Friday, May 13th, 2016

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Los Angeles-based Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. (GEE), worldwide provider of aircraft connectivity systems, operations solutions and media content to the travel and mobility markets, has agreed to acquire Emerging Markets Communications, a leading communications services provider to maritime and other mobility markets, in a transaction valued at $550 Million. Our readers might remember that GEE […]

We Talk Marketplaces w/ @SignkickUK’s Tobias van Amstel

Thursday, May 12th, 2016

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

While we often hear of the big national and international companies being interested in and using programmatic ad buying for out-of-home and digital out-of-home, it’s not often we hear of local small- and medium-businesses using it. Signkick, a UK company, aims to change this. “We make outdoor advertising easy to buy,” says Tobias van Amstel, […]