Archive for June, 2010

Pandora iPad Advertising Platform

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Oakland-based Pandora has announced that Starbucks, Lexus, and Budweiser are the first brands on the new Pandora iPad advertising platform. Each campaign features attributes that fully make the most of one or more of the rich video, audio and interactive capabilities of the iPad. Pandora’s unique advertising solutions draw from its multi-platform presence – now […]

Apptera Raises $10 Million in Venture Capital

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Mobile advertising company Apptera of San Bruni, California, has raised $10 million in venture capital funding, noted via a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The startup’s previous financing round was in Nov., 2008, also totalling about $10 million and coming from investors such as Alloy Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Walden International, […]

#InfoComm2010 – Tweet Stats

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Our usual post show report has gone off to the organisers of #InfoComm2010 and we thought we’d share some of the twitter data with you (as we did with #dse2010, #KioskCom, #ScreenMediaExpo etc etc.). The total number of Twitter impressions was an incredibly impressive 3,055,553 (yes three million fifty five thousand five hundred and fifty […]

5th Digital Signage Investor Conference

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

It’s been confirmed now that Stuart Armstrong from EnQii and our very own editor in chief are confirmed as co-chairs for the next Strategy Institute Digital Signage Investor Conference which is being held 5th – 6th October 2010 in New York City. You may remember how much we ‘raved’ about last year’s event: ‘How Good […]

Canada’s Digital Display To Be Acquired By Cineplex Odeon

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Dmitry Sokolov

We just learned that Canadian Cinema Chain Cineplex Odeon will acquire what has now become one of the premier Digital Signage integrators in Canada – Digital Display and Communications (DDC). DDC is the lead integrator on high-profile projects such as Toronto Air Canada Center, Labatt store fixtures and the majority of Neo Advertising Canada’s network. Also boasting […]

Cineplex Odeon Acquire Digital Display

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

News just in that Canada’s Digital Display and Communications is to be acquired by Cineplex Odeon.

#InfoComm2010 – Twitter Analysis

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Andrew Neale

If 2009 was the year of mass Twitter excitement among the general population, especially for public figures and celebrities, then 2010 seems to be the year of widespread social media engagement in business. At InfoComm this year, the total number of tweets using one of the hashtags #InfoComm, #InfoComm10, #InfoComm2010 (and initially #IC10) was just […]

#dsj2010 – Vanten’s Use Of MicroTiles

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Chris Phelan

Vanten made extensive use of a number of MicroTiles at last week’s Digital Signage Japan event in Chiba. Here’s a snapshot of each piece of content we did followed by a brief description… Social media scramble. Official #dsj2010 tweets, replies and mentions, all tweets related to the DSJ show; messages mailed in by cell phone; […]

51st FEPE Congress 2010, Beirut

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Guest Contributor, John Ellery

170 delegates from 29 countries have just returned home from a most excellent 51st FEPE congress. Ziad Baroud, the Minsiter of the Interior and Municipalities of Lebanon opened the Congress, and welcomed all the delegates to Beirut. Watts Wacker, a well knows futurist from the USA provided a key note presentation with a review of […]

ExCeL Embraces Digital Wayfinding

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

ExCeL London, the international exhibition and convention centre, has selected Pixel Inspiration to provide it with a digital wayfinding solution. ExCel is part of a 100 acre campus, including 3 onsite DLR stations and access to the Jubilee Line and London City Airport. It’s the host venue for a variety of events from award winning […]