Archive for June, 2012

DigiCast Networks Joins DPAA

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

DigiCast Networks, San Francisco-based digital media company specializing in out-of-home video and audio advertising solutions and a division of Brite Media Group, is the newest member of the Digital Place-based Advertising Association. The DigiCast network consists of audio advertising at gas stations (Gas Station Radio), digital banner ads wrapped around live TV in restaurants (Restaurant […]

#dsj2012 Pre-Event Dinner w/ @DSExpo & @AmigoDigital

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

With the help of Vanten K.K’s Tokyo based CEO Neil Van Wouw we hosted an informal pre-#dsj2012 dinner for some of the foreign contingent attending the event at Makuhari Messe Wednesday through to Friday this week… Shown above Chris Gibbs and his wife Danielle at the front, yours truly, Neil van Wouw and Amigo Digital’s […]

NEC Display Solutions Adds Industry Vets to VUKUNET

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

NEC Display Solutions of America, Chicago-based provider of commercial LCD display and projector solutions, has appointed three advertising industry veterans to its VUKUNET team, specifically promoting the VUKUNET platform to ad agencies and representing digital-out-of-home sellers for advertising sales. Carolyn Kelly Walkin, has joined the VUKUNET team as business development manager, and both Dan Trapani […]

#ScreenmediaExpo 2012 Educational Tracks

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

All of this year’s #ScreenmediaExpo presentations from the four conference tracks are online here – click, scroll down and visit any of the conference tracks, and click on the ‘Watch Video’ button.

#InfoComm12 @IAdea Signboard Kits

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

IAdea will be at #InfoComm12, this time on the Mitsubishi Electric Visual Solutions America stand C8308. Beside showing IAdea’s line of digital signage media appliances, they will be highlighting the sort of ‘Signboard Kits‘ that have enabled various high profile projects to be won recently (think COMMCaddy, think DOOH Loos etc. etc.) One example is […]

Nexage Raises $10 Million

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Nexage mobile ad exchange, Boston, recently raised $10 million in a second round of venture financing led by SingTel Innov8, the corporate venture capital arm of the SingTel Group. Prior investors Relay Ventures and GrandBanks Capital also participated in the financing, which brings the total raised by Nexage to date to $14.5 million. Nexage plans […]

Scala In Distribution Agreement With @IngramMicroInc

Tuesday, June 12th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Almost two years ago to the day it was ‘Ingram Micro To Distribute BrightSign Products‘ and now we hear that Santa Ana, California-based Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) has announced a new U.S. distribution relationship with Scala Inc. – whether one supersedes the other, or whether they can and will work together we do not […]

#InfoComm12 Arsenal Media’s Fountain of Content

Monday, June 11th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A unique ‘Fountain of Content’ at this week’s #InfoComm12 will show the pro AV industry how Arsenal Media’s digital content services can quench the steady thirst that professional a/v and digital signage projects have for thoughtful, high quality creative.   The Montreal-based digital agency’s booth (N623) in Las Vegas June 13-15 will feature a custom-created tower of […]

@X2OMedia X2O Portal Now Supports @OpenSplash

Monday, June 11th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Go visit X2O Media at #InfoComm12, Booth N1541 this week and you will see one more pioneering CMS vendor who truly sees how the digital signage industry is shaping up. Yep, that’s right X2O Media’s Powerful X2O Portal which we raved about when it first launched (and took X2O slightly to task for not initially […]

#InfoComm12 @eyevis Booth N1053

Monday, June 11th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

eyevis, which has been making its presence felt at numerous trade shows since its launch at InfoComm last June, will again be one stand well worth going to see at #InfoComm12 this week at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The Reutlingen, German-based company will be at stand N1053, showing an arrangement of visual display solutions […]