Archive for January, 2012

John Sykes Joins Clear Channel Entertainment Enterprises

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

John Sykes, music, entertainment and media executive, has been named to the newly created role of president, Clear Channel Entertainment Enterprises, reporting directly to Bob Pittman, Clear Channel CEO. In his new position, Sykes will use the assets of Clear Channel – including its 238 million monthly broadcast radio listeners, the 141 million people it […]

New Hires At NEC’s Integrated Media Group

Friday, January 20th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

NEC Display Solutions just announced two new additions to the newly formed Integrated Media group, run by Senior Director John Sheehan. James P. Pfenning brings more than 18 years of professional experience with a background in sports marketing, commercial software, and digital signage. Most recently, Pfenning was a Vertical Market Manager with LG’s Commercial Display […]

#dseForum DSE Spring Industry Forum

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The DSE Spring Industry Forum which WAS to take place in Fort. Lauderdale, May 20-23 has seemingly become the ‘Summer Industry Forum‘ is now taking place July 22-25 in Denver, Colorado.

Live (Indeed) From @MobileFirstLook’s Mobile First 2012 Strategy Conference

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

I’ll be providing real-time posts on tumblr and twitter from the Mobile Marketer’s ‘Mobile First 2012 Strategy Conference‘ today… Follow me on twitter: @manolo_almagro or on my tumblr: http://reimagine.tumblr.com/

Mike Hemmings Joins Amscreen Adds To Wage Bill

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

More (no doubt) expensive hires for Amscreen as it appoints CBS Outdoor’s head of marketing Mike Hemmings as its international marketing director starting February. Let’s hope that their advertising revenue will more than match their (one hell of a) wage bill or Lord Sugar is going to be digging into his pockets even more going […]

The Cloud Retail Week Conference 2012

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Geny Caloisi

As our events calendar shows The Cloud Retail Week Conference 2012 takes place 14th-15th March 2012 at the Hilton London Metropole Hotel. This is a two day event and whilst it is far from being digital signage oriented (or specific) it’s a good event that we always like to try and cover. A couple of […]

Interview With Matt Weldon At Multiband

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This week we had a chance to talk with Matthew Weldon, general manager of digital media at Multiband Corporation in Minneapolis – a company that wants to be known as THE installation, maintenance and support company for the digital-out-of-home industry. Multiband is a huge publicly traded company with approximately $300 million in revenues that engages […]

#digitalsignageasia Conference Takes Shape

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Nisha Jhangiani over at Terrapinn seems to be doing a great job of lining up speakers for the two day conference that is running alongside #digitalsignageasia on the 25th – 27th April 2012 in Singapore. And they are far from the ‘usual suspects’ too so attendees should be in for a treat as they listen […]

#ISE2012 Advantech’s Power-Efficient Signage Player

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Geny Caloisi

Advantech will release a graphics digital signage media player ARK-DS306 at #ISE2012. The compact player is powered by an AMD Embedded G-Series APU with the AMD A50M Fusion Controller Hub system chipset, and provides a power-efficient platform for high-performance multi-media content delivery. Based on this new APU platform, ARK-DS306 offers an outstanding visual experience with […]

indoorDIRECT A Dead Man Walking

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

PRN were perhaps less than totally honest in their recent joint venture announcement which is, as many on twitter have speculated looks nothing more than an acquisition of indoorDIRECT, the firing of their Dallas based staff and creating a new entity to hold the assets that indoorDIRECT (that was rumoured to be in trouble for […]