Archive for September, 2011

Crosseyed And Painless

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Lots of industry M&A, a whole handful of exclusives, a controversial CoolSign post and a lot of interest in our lead up to #DSinvestor in mid October saw this week be one of our busiest ever visitor-wise with yesterday (Tuesday 27th September) becoming our absolute busiest traffic day ever with no less than 4,228 people […]

DS At Turks & Caicos Islands Airports

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Interspace Airport Advertising, TCI, Ltd. a subsidiary of Clear Channel Airports, and Turks & Caicos Islands Airport Authority have launched new corporate and community showcase programs at Providenciales International Airport and JAGS McCartney International Airport for area businesses and organizations, aiming to provide the airport with digitally driven platforms that will better welcome the islands’ […]

@AVMag Friday’s #AVawards

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It’s only fair that we should apologise to @AVMag for (yet again) not taking our own table (two of our staff are on vacation this week) at this Friday’s #AVawards ceremony in London. Next year, we promise!! We should also publicly thank Scala for inviting what’s left of our team to join their table. No […]

NFC Why Click, Just Tap?

Wednesday, September 28th, 2011

JP Biamby

As we previously reported, OTA Training hosted the first NFC Bootcamp here in NYC earlier this week. The all day training session gave attendees a thorough explanation of NFC (Near Field Communication) technology and an overview of how it can integrate with existing marketing campaigns to maximize campaign ROI. Still relatively new to consumers as […]

Brite Future Ahead For Targetcast Networks?

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Dylan Jones, Jones Digital Media

In yet another industry scoop for the DailyDOOH, we learnt yesterday that Targetcast Networks of San Ramon, California has found a new home with the Brite Media Group, an industry leader in the more traditional out of home advertising offerings. TargetCast Networks, aka TCN, was acquired by the Brite Media Group in a deal that […]

Belgium’s Electrabel Subsidiary N-Allo Buys Digitopia

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

N-Allo, an established name in Belgium’s contact centre landscape, and a subsidiary of Electrabel, expands its professional services by taking a majority stake in Digitopia. Digitopia – the biggest player in Belgium in digital signage – will complement N-Allo’s offer in the field of new digital solutions for optimising the interaction between customer and company. […]

CoolSign Dead And Buried

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Well one thing is for sure, you don’t need to worry about CoolSign any more – whether you were a competitor (software vendor), a channel partner or even an end user looking for a solution its days are now numbered. Super nice, super smart guy Raffi Vartian’s time was probably up the minute ‘Lou Giacalone […]

Targetcast Networks Part Ways With Titan

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Back in February a tip we received and didn’t quite believe turned out to be true – TargetCast Networks Inc.’s new partner ended up being Titan. Well it seems that this relationship was short lived as we are hearing that Targetcast Networks has now parted ways with Titan. We will have the full story and […]

Lots Of Digital Signage At #wrc11

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We haven’t / didn’t manage to get there but we are hearing good reports about the World Retail Congress being held in Berlin at the moment (25-28 September 2011). It was in our Industry Events calendar so everyone had plenty of warning about it 😉 There is, we are told, lots of digital signage there. […]

How To Save Money On Content

Tuesday, September 27th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

It’s not easy being the last speaker on the last day of a conference, what with people rushing to head home, catch a flight or commuter train, but we’d strongly advise that you stay right to the end of the Strategy Institute’s Digital Signage Investor Conference – especially if you are looking on how to […]