Archive for March, 2012
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 […]
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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, […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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