Archive for February, 2012

A Tribute To Whitney Houston From @mtv445

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

JP Biamby

As a tribute to the R&B icon, MTV 44 1/2 will be running Whitney Houston’s videos at the bottom of every hour around the :56 minute mark all this week. Fans will be able to enjoy classic Whitney videos like I Will Always Love You, Saving All My Love and How Will I Know alternating […]

Australia’s INNOV8 Media Acquired By Val Doonican

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Val Morgan Retail Media, one of Australia’s leading digital retail networks announced this week that it had acquired INNOV8 Media – a company that has focussed on providing a local audience to small business owners via Shopping Centre media. INNOV8 has a network of large format plasma screens as well as static displays and undercover […]

La Cage aux Sports Indoor Newad Ad Partnership

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Montreal-based Newad has reached an exclusive indoor advertising agreement with the 53 restaurants that make up La Cage aux Sports, a Quebec pioneer and leader in the sports resto-bars industry. Newad will handle all sales of advertising space for the Cage TV and AffiCage networks with ad agencies and Canada’s major advertisers, while also managing […]

Four Winds Blow Through Vancouver Aquarium

Monday, February 13th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

When the Our World gallery officially opens tomorrow, Feb. 14, at the Vancouver Aquarium, a new video wall and screens that will add pizzazz are the latest stage in the famed aquarium’s efforts to better connect with visitors, after having installed wayfinding stations last summer. Since its inception at Vancouver’s Stanley Park in 1956, the […]

Digital Brand Activation Summit Early Bird Special

Monday, February 13th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

If you’ve given any thought to attending the Strategy Institute’s ‘Digital Brand Activation Summit: a Placed Based Strategy’ two-day event in Toronto, Canada, in April, you may want to get in on its early bird special which will save you $200. The special offer expires this Friday, February 17. The summit will take place April […]

@Amscreen_Simon You’re Having A Larf Mate

Monday, February 13th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Every now and again we feel compelled to roll out the rules for Gen 2.0 networks, put together so well by DecisionPoint Media Insights‘ Bill Collins back in July 2008. Yes. that’s right – almost four years ago! If we can bastardise the Hovis (bread) commercial† “they’re as good today, as they’ve always been!” So […]

#dse2012 The Experts Certification Courses

Monday, February 13th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Register by Wednesday, and you can still get the early bird price for the Digital Signage Certified Expert Program, and the Digital Signage Display Expert Program Tuesday, March 6, the day before the opening of #dse2012 in Las Vegas. The same deal goes for Digital Signage Network Expert Program the day after the show on […]

Chris Lanman Tells Us About DigiCast Networks

Monday, February 13th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

After we learned that Brian Moore, former TargetCast CEO, and John Kaminski, former installation and support manager, had both left DigiCast Networks, the digital division of Brite Media Group, we chatted with Chris Lanman, senior vice-president, who brought us up to date on what is really happening at the San Francisco-based company. “We have 25 […]

Industry Weapon – TE Connectivity Alliance

Monday, February 13th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Industry Weapon recently announced an alliance with TE Connectivity, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, to deliver interactive digital signage solutions on Elo TouchSystems displays that – so they claim, Ed will make a generally-considered complex technology a lot more simplified. As software content developers for digital media technology, Industry Weapon is known to provide customers with simplified solutions. […]

An In-Taxi Game For Decision Makers

Monday, February 13th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Play Taxi Media, Vancouver, and Canadian telecommunications company TELUS have just launched the ‘Built for Business’ ad campaign that turns ordinary taxi rides into an interactive game for passengers.  Play Taxi’s national network of interactive touch screens on the back of taxi headrests in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver have been configured to offer Small- to […]