Archive for April, 2013

Orbit Micro Moves Into Digital Signage

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Orbit Micro, which we met at #2013SignExpo, has launched its first digital signage product, being sold from sister company Enoch Systems under which all the company’s digital out-of-home products will now be sold. Called Display Vue, the product is a simple 15” all-in-one digital display computer, geared for digital signage and point-of-sale use. Powered by […]

Maxximum Outdoor, New Toronto Digital Offering

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

A new player in the digital field in Toronto came into our view with announcement that Maxximum Outdoor will be launching a network of digital signs in 68 locations at the Gateway convenience stores in Toronto’s subway system. Maxximum Outdoor, owned by Jason Garnet, has been a relatively small player in the static outdoor sector […]

New Branding, Key Appointment At Accuweather

Friday, April 12th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Two new pieces of news from Accuweather Inc. came in while we were attending #2013SignExpo: the promotion of Loren Tobia to executive director of sales for display systems and services; and the introduction of a new brand identity system. The role of Tobia, a former chairman of the Radio Television Digital News Association, is to […]

oOh!’s Vision. Place Based Opportunities

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Following the finalisation of the integration of EYE Corp into oOh!, which by the way, has made oOh! the largest player in Australia’s out-of-home advertising industry comes news of a new away from home category and a key appointment to help drive it… Warwick Denby has joined oOh!’s senior management team as Group Director – […]

It’s Not The Starfish And The Spider

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It’s surely slightly careless of the DPAA to still be leaderless, but leaderless it is until they announce their new President. We note that Mike DiFranza, president of Captivate Network and DPAA chairman is also ‘acting president’ at this time. Whilst the official press release (March 2013) stated, we quote “Danaher informed the board of […]

#enSpire enVu: Two Years, One Billion Impressions

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

enVu, New York-based interactive media company, will celebrate one billion impressions on it enSpire mall advertising platform this month., During its initial first-year deployment phase, enSpire accumulated 250 million viewer impressions. Since reaching its full deployment of 135 sites in 2011, enSpire has sustained an average of 37.5 million viewers per month and an average […]

Third Rock Digital Chooses Ayuda

Thursday, April 11th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

A relatively new outdoor billboard company Third Rock Digital has selected the Ayuda Platform to power all of its outdoor LED billboards, beginning in Baton Rouge, LA. Kirk McNabb, owner of Incite LED Media Group and co-developer/operator for Third Rock Digital sites, told us “Our operating group is very pleased with the robust and feature […]

Ten Companies To Watch In 2008 Redux

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

In December 2007 we wrote a post entitled ‘Ten Companies to Watch in 2008‘. That list, in full was… Neo Advertising AdWalker Motomedia Quividi Dagobert DeMedya EnQii (now ComQi) Screen Technology MultiQ The Sound Agency and in addition, a couple of intrepid readers threw their two pennies’ worth in (oooh! the danger in doing that […]

Content, Shape And Gigapixel Challenges

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

Alex Hughes

I’ve been asked to speak at the Thought Leadership Summit being held on Thursday 16th May (the summit will run 10:00 – 12:00 and then 14:00 – 16:00) in conjunction with the 5th NEC Solutions Showcase being held at the iconic Tobacco Dock in East London. This summit is sub-titled Video Walls Unplugged and the […]

Amscreen To Use @Quividi Across 6,000+ Screens

Wednesday, April 10th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A collaboration between Amscreen and Quividi, will see Amscreen’s 6000+ screens use Quividi’s face tracking technology across their broad portfolio of advertising-supported networks and become the first media owner to adopt this technology on a very large scale in Europe. A couple of things to note… Amscreen will argue that they now have ‘the most […]