Archive for June, 2013

#fepeBerlin2013 – Did I Say International ?

Monday, June 24th, 2013

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Outgoing FEPE President Barry Sayer announced in his opening remarks that 31 countries were represented at this most international of events, and he certainly wasn’t kidding. During the breaks, there was a constant babble of foreign tongues, handshaking, hugging and kissing as old friends were re-found and new ones made from across the globe, but […]

FF @PhilipmCohen @DSFederation @BarryFrey @DPAads @DHuelsermann, @OVABeurope

Friday, June 21st, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

If you want to follow on twitter our industry association’s leaders, here’s how (in alphabetical order)… The Mighty Phil Cohen, @PhilipmCohen, @DSFederation Chairman Barry Frey, @BarryFrey, @DPAads President & CEO Dirk Huelsermann, @DHuelsermann, @OVABeurope Founder and President

Ding Ding. Layoffs. Round 2. IZON Media.

Friday, June 21st, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We now have firm news of a senior VP departure at IZON Media (nee PRN) and whilst we continually see ex-PRN sales folks crop up elsewhere (mainly RMG Networks it seems) there were rumours yesterday (see our comments section here) of a round two of layoffs taking place earlier this week. See also our May […]

Andy Moug Joins @EyeOutofHomeUK

Friday, June 21st, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

Eye announced today the appointment of Andy Moug as Sales & Marketing Director – a newly created role and key addition to the company’s Senior Management Team. Andy, who assumes the post on 3rd July, will report into Managing Director, Sarah Parkes. He will have a team of six reporting into him including three new […]

Costain & National Grid London Tunneling Project

Friday, June 21st, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

Costain (an international engineering and construction group) were recently awarded an eight year contract by the National Grid to carry out tunneling under London for improved cabling. This tunneling contract, worth approximately GBP 200 million, will help meet increased energy flows across the city of London and it will also support increasing electricity demand, including […]

Halifax International Airport Authority Switches To Omnivex Moxie

Friday, June 21st, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Omnivex Corporation, Concord, Ontario, announced yesterday (June 20/13) that the Halifax International Airport Authority (HIAA) has migrated the first 100, of a total of 150, of its displays to the Omnivex Moxie software solution. Working with the Omnivex local Value Added Reseller, 3D datacomb, HIAA will continue to replace its existing display management system, consisting […]

Clean View Media Network Licenses Visible Spectrum’s Content Creation Platform

Friday, June 21st, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

At The Clean Show in New Orleans this week, June 20–22, Clean View Media Network is showcasing enhancements to its DryerAds network for laundromats nationwide and Clean View Media announced the licensing of the innovative production engine that powers the Visible Spectrum, Inc. web-based platform for custom content creation. DryerAds is a digital screen set […]

Brian Marin & Nicolas Ludmer Join @BroadSign

Friday, June 21st, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

BroadSign International, LLC, tells us that it has acted on forecasted subscription growth by adding new employees to its international sales team. In North America, BroadSign has hired Brian Marin as a Sales Director. He joins fellow Sales Director Anthony Davis who has been with the company since February 2012. Brian was previously the Senior […]

Intel Retail Client Manager Software

Thursday, June 20th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As expected, industry strategist and visionary of all things ‘visual retail’ and ‘customer experience’ Jose Avalos, err Jose’s words not ours, announced the Intel Retail Client Manager Software in his Webinar Thursday June 27, 2013. RCM stands for ‘Retail Client Manager’, it will be sold as a managed service via a couple of distributors (see […]

Juice Powered By Cerebro

Thursday, June 20th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The third announcement during #fepeBerlin2013 from Ayuda Media Systems (Ayuda) was that the latest version of Juice (the sales portion of the Ayuda Platform) now includes a new option to create optimal proposals that optimize over audience data and analytics provided by Route in the UK, in combination with geographical constraints. “As we did just […]