Archive for November, 2009

Co-Founder Shopping.com Joins WAFFiL

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

WAFFiL a marketing and technology solution that attempts to monetize plasma and LCD televisions, announced this week that Douglas Hay has joined its executive team as Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Hay will oversee all operational aspects of the company with a focus on the patent pending WAFFiL product line. Douglas Hay has more than 30 […]

SeeSaw Raises $1 Million For Digital Advertising

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

SeeSaw Networks, provider of digital advertising services, has brought in $1 million in promissory notes, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in San Francisco, it has been backed by Sutter Hill Ventures which has invested at least twice before in SeeSaw, including in June/08 with over $3 million. SeeSaw has aggregated 36 digital […]

$16 Million In New Funding For Millennial Media

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Baltimore-based Millennial Media, a major U.S. advertising network for mobile devices, has raised $16 million in new funding. The move comes only a week after Google Inc. paid $750 million in stock to acquire Millennial’s competitor, AdMob Inc., of San Mateo, California. Millennial Media’s management says that its new funding will be used to fuel […]

Nobel Peace Center, From King to Obama

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

never.no today announced that its Interactivity Desk is powering part of a unique exhibit, ‘From King to Obama’ on display at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo from now until 11th April 2010. The digital signage portion of the exhibit, whose technology was a collaborative effort between never.no, MORE Mobile Relations, and Active Loop Television […]

Scala Wins, AMX Loses

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Ocean Outdoor have switched all of their digital screens over from the AMX / Inspired Signage software platform to Scala and surely one of the main reasons for doing so is the ability to use Scala’s Ad Manager platform. We believe that this switch over was deployed in conjunction with Lighthouse by Scala Partner, Beyond […]

BroadSign’s Top Techy Leaves

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Jimmy Abraham’s official title at BroadSign was Vice President of IT, Support and Deployment although on his LinkedIn profile which is usually a good reflection of how people see themselves in the world he describes himself as an “Infrastructure technologist and Management executive”. To all intents and purposes though, people tell us that he was […]

CognoVision Named One Of CIX Top 20 Innovative Companies of 2009

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

CognoVision Solutions Inc., a Markham-Ont.-based developer of real-time audience measurement solutions for the retail and out-of-home advertising industries, has been named as one of the CIX Top 20 Innovative Companies of 2009. CognoVision solutions measure and maximize the impact of digital signage. Its system has been optimized for use in digital signage networks. CognoVision’s system […]

Futuramedia Runs Ethical Health Campaigns

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Futuramedia’s network of 3,000 digital screens, ‘Futurapharma’, has recently been chosen to run Prevention and Ethical Health campaigns such as those on Hepatitis B (Brystol-Myers Squibb Laboratories); Hypertension (Sanofi-Aventis Laboratories);  Vaccine against Cervical Cancer (GlaxoSmithkline Laboratories); Strokes (INPES campaign) and ARMD (age-related macular degeneration – Novartis Laboratories) Futuramedia’s screens are located in some of the biggest […]

MicroTiles – A Pop Up Life

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Alex Hughes

Developing content for Christie Digital’s MicroTiles is an interesting experience as you are dealing with very high resolutions which we of course wanted to take full advantage of. Even HD at 1920 x 1080 can sometimes not be big enough, though clever use of video footage integrated within more traditional animation can produce some stunning […]

Asylum Artists Offers One-Stop-Shop For Multimedia Photography

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

A new Canadian company, which has just opened its doors in Toronto as the pioneer of a process that converges still photography and HD motion picture for the first time under one roof, is also expanding its talents into content for digital out-of-home. Asylum Artists is the brainchild of successful commercial photographer Don Dixon, a […]