Archive for March, 2012

Bulzī Embeds Nielsen Segmentation In Ad Network

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Bulzī Media, Newport Beach, California-based digital media company that built what it claims is the world’s first targeted ad network for the digital signage industry, has signed a commercial agreement with Nielsen to embed its Nielsen PRIZM consumer lifestyle segmentation system into the Bulzī technology platform. PRIZM combines household and geo-demographic data to provide advertisers […]

New EVP Direct Sales At Clear Channel

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Long-time, digital advertising executive Tim Castelli recently joined Clear Channel Media and Entertainment as executive vice-president of digital sales, reporting to John Hogan, chairman and CEO. In his new role, Castelli is responsible for overseeing the national digital sales efforts and developing innovative advertising products and programs across several Clear Channel Media and Entertainment divisions, […]

Harris To Shut Its Signage / DOOH Division?

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

With their leader Denise MacDonnell on maternity leave, a perceived general lack of interest in the sector (witness the stand and people at #ISE2012 and at #dse2012) what should we make of the rumours flying around #dse2012 last week with regard Harris Broadcast? If the lawsuit we flew home with (a direct result of our […]

Broadcast International Raises More Capital

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Broadcast International have been appearing on these pages rather a lot recently; either redacted or in full. We noticed yesterday, in between High Court appearances (more of that later), that they (BI) continue to sell tons of stock at USD 0.25 (that’s below the close of USD 0.35) in order to raise capital and help […]

Will ISE Move To Barcelona?

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

“Extra Hall Benefits Digital Signage” we wrote on Monday which was good news for our industry and good news in general for next year’s #ISE2013 but what happens when the RAI runs out of space? By our calculations if ISE keeps on expanding at this rate the RAI will be full by the time the […]

Changes In InfoComm International’s Membership And Education

Thursday, March 15th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

InfoComm International, a Fairfax, Virginia-based non-profit trade association dedicated to serving the professional audiovisual communications industry worldwide, will, as of early 2013, simplify its membership structure and expand the amount of free and discounted education offered to members. “In 2011, the Membership Committee dedicated themselves to resolving long-time challenges voiced by InfoComm’s members, including reducing […]

YCD Multimedia New Hires

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We meant to say that last week also (at #dse2012) we heard that YCD had been on a bit of a mini hiring spree. We think this includes a general manager for an international business unit that would cover EMEA and APAC (they were rather careless with their last one), and two senior sales executives […]

ECOtality Charging Stations Choose Wireless Ronin

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Wireless Ronin Technologies, Minneapolis-based marketing technologies solutions provider, has been selected by ECOtality Inc., a San Francisco-based company involved in clean electric transportation and storage technologies, to support the media and advertising capabilities for ECOtality’s Blink network of electric vehicle charging stations. This agreement represents a pilot phase of deployment where ECOtality will use the […]

nexTune’s Cloud Based In-Store Music Service

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Music delivery is the obvious candidate for cloud computing / distribution and we saw a number of demonstrations from folks at #gs12 a few weeks ago but perhaps the best we saw was from nexTUNE who formally announced this week their background music in the cloud service. As they say “Forget satellite broadcasts, ditch the […]

Change (Of A Different Kind) At The Top For DPAA

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Technology these days allows us to go away from an event, quickly upload photos and share them. It’s fun to look through a photo album and remember the event. So too it was today at DailyDOOH Towers as we browsed through the Preset Group’s #dsemixer photo album shared by Dave Haynes… Mind you, shocked we […]