Archive for June, 2009

Imperative Group Announces Associate Program

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Imperative Group today announced the creation of what it calls a ‘first class team of associates’ aimed at, and we quote “to tackle emerging multichannel media opportunities in the digital out of home sector” The nine associates announced include: – Mike Silverman, formerly founder & CEO of Corinthian Television, Commercial Director of Instrumental Media & […]

DS Tech Summit Day One Summary

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

About 60 folks attended day one of the Strategy Institute’s 2nd Annual Digital SIgnage Technology Summit. It was definitely a target rich environment for software vendors and we reckoned that over half the folks in the room were university and education based. Brad Gleeson did an excellent job in chairing the sessions and pretty much […]

EK3 Up For Sale

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Word reaches us that Canadian digital signage software vendor EK3 has put itself up for sale. We bet that they wished they had never touched Walmart Canada and had never heard of Shopcast because both of those will have drained all their profits from their Tim Hortons’ installs!

Live Tweets From DS Tech Summit, Orlando (Day 1)

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Jorge Garcia de Bustos

Today we’re tweeting live from the Digital Signage Technology Summit being held in conjunction with InfoComm 2009: Bill Collins is chairing day 2 and his opening remarks are at 8:30 Weds morning, see you ALL tomorrow !!! during the Tuesday session <we thought he was wrapping up> 😉 during the Tuesday session SAITVIEW what’s next […]

Danoo Looking For New CEO

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Two weeks ago in our post ‘Looking For A New CEO?‘ we were a bit naughty and asked the question “Which high profile US-based company (West Coast) in the Digital Signage / DOOH industry is actively seeking a new CEO do you think?” Half a dozen of you didn’t even need our hint (we said […]

Digicom Hires Chris Forrester

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Digicom announced this week that it has hired Chris Forrester as MD, Sales and Marketing – Chris was previously Head of Sales at CBS Outdoor so this is a good hire for the new all digital media sales outfit. Tom Goddard, executive chairman told us “We are delighted to have attracted someone of Chris’ calibre. […]

Pod Appears On CoolSign Stand

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

BF Group are truly exhibition tarts and pop up all over the place on other people’s stands – at ISE they gate crashed the Harris stand (to be fair at Screen Expo they had their own stand) but hats off to them for getting their digital 6-sheet and various Pods out there!!! Derek Lawrence, Managing […]

Best Buy Canada To Sell Digital Signage

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Seattle-based .advancedMethod has announced a new partnership with the Commercial Sales Group of Best Buy Canada Ltd., headquartered in Burnaby, B.C.. With this partnership, Best Buy has selected .advancedMethod’s express digital signage system to offer to its customers. The express digital signage system will now be available directly through Best Buy Canada’s digital signage group, […]

The Digital Signage Show, New York, November 2009

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Andrew Neale

Registration is now available for The Digital Signage Show, November 10-11, 2009 at the Javits Convention Center, New York, NY (USA). This event of course is co-located with KioskCom Self Service Expo

BroadSign Did Not Buy Navori

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We were the first to tell you this back in July 2008 when we discovered (quite accidentally as it happens) that BroadSign had (perhaps inadvertently) misled folks earlier in 2008 when they issued a press release stating that they had acquired Swiss firm Navori SA when in fact the transaction never took place. We wonder […]