Archive for June, 2010
Thursday, June 17th, 2010
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Earlier this week, RMG Networks (nee Danoo) announced that it had doubled its fitness club TV audience and also claimed, “RMG operates the largest place-based television network into fitness club cardio rooms across the US” and that got us thinking. We did a bit of research and that got us a bit riled and so, […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Here’s the new 43″ stretch LCD from Samsung (correctly called a Panoramic Panel) who had a booth at #DSX2010 laid on by their LCD components team. There were a number of new Samsung products on display that have not typically been seen at shows this year.
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Chris Sheldrake
Ecast this week announced the hire of Dan Ackerman for the position of vice president of advertising sales. Most recently Ackerman served as vice president, worldwide sales and business development for Jivox, a privately held online video ad technology startup providing a video ad platform and network for agencies, advertisers and online publishers. Prior to […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
We’d be amazed if RMG has enough money, even if PRN were heavily discounted but the rumour we heard last week in Vegas was that RMG are first in line at the moment to buy PRN.
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Earlier this week RMG Networks (nee Danoo) announced that it had doubled its fitness club TV audience and also claimed, “RMG operates the largest place-based television network into fitness club cardio rooms across the US” – strange that because we’d figure that Zoom Media and Marketing was probably about twice their size in the gym […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
For the first time in Canada, and, we suspect, a lot of other places, people can access live customer support while banking at a teller machine, simply by touching the screen. FirstOntario Credit Union, Hamilton, Ontario, has launched the Personal Assisted Teller – or PAT – that connects tellers directly with customers via video while […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Vua, a new Vietnamese sandwich shop, has opened its first store in downtown Montreal, equipping it with digital signage and menu board systems from Montreal digital sign integrator Mirada Media. Vua was fitted with a 5-screen menu board,powered by Mirada Media’s new MenuView software, as well as two client communication boards. Vua, which means ‘king’ […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
We think these event organisers are cheeky buggers for (a) daring to label the event ‘Digital Signage’ (the exhibition is clearly 85% kiosk) and (b) having the guts to call it an ‘Expo’ but have you noticed how Digital Signage Expo 2010 has dropped the ‘Europe’ tag recently? Our spies who did go have told […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
To promote their unique partnership, 7-Eleven Inc., Dallas, and Zynga, San Francisco-based social game developer, decided to work with Titan to create five branded, wrapped commuter buses equipped with digital screens on their sides and traveling in the Chicagoland area. The 7-Eleven/Zynga partnership is using what is believed to be the first full-wrapped, digital bus […]
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Digital out-of-home advertising , along with radio and television, are all playing a major role in a new multi-media branding campaign in the Greater Toronto Area for t.o.night free evening daily newspaper. The paper is distributed every weekday, near downtown Toronto’s public transit hubs. t.o.night Newspaper Group Inc., publishers of ‘t.o.night’, has launched the campaign […]
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