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The Tannery Row Ale House, established in 1873 in Buford, Georgia, has installed a 224” 6mm NanoLumens NanoSlim LED Display in its large bar room to entertain guests.

To prepare for football season, the Tannery Row Ale House decided to install the town’s biggest, brightest and clearest display for its guests to watch the game. To do so, it turned to NanoLumens, the world’s leading manufacturer and marketer of indoor LED display solutions, to provide the 224” NanoSlim LED Display for the bar room.

“The Tannery Row Ale House is determined to host the best football sporting events in town,” says Nathan Remmes, NanoLumens director of business development. “The LED NanoSlim Display guarantees them that opportunity; the display is bright and provides maximum range. Anyone at the back of the bar can view the screen with complete clarity. It’s the ideal display for this space.”

After touring the NanoLumens showroom, bar owners Shane Maxwell and Brian Campbell selected the NanoSlim LED Display. “This display is thin and lightweight, but expansive,” Maxwell said. “The bigger the screen, the better. We want all of our guests to enjoy watching the game at our bar.”

Measuring 17’ by 11’, the NanoSlim display sits at the center of the restaurant in an area that flexes into an outdoor space during the warmer seasons. It’s possible to maximize the display year round, whether viewers watch baseball outside or football inside.

Aside from sporting events, the Ale House rents out its large central space for meetings and conventions.

“When conventions take place, renters can use the LED Display to showcase whatever visuals they’d like,” says Maxwell.

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Toronto-based Cieslok Media has put a Board of Directors in place, composed of both investment firms’ representatives and two with advertising experience including one of North America’s best known media strategists.

Doug Checkeris

Sitting on the Board, in addition to Jörg Cieslok, president and CEO of Cieslok Media, are: Mitch Green, managing partner, Clairvest Group Inc.; Robbie Isenberg, principal, Clairvest Group; Doug Checkeris, partner, strategy, media and technology, GNR8R Marketing Group; and David Woods, GLH Group Family Investment Office, chairman of the Investment Committee;

Cieslok himself has more than 20 years of experience in the out-of-home sector and has been building Cieslok Media since buying the Canadian operations of Titan in October, 2013.

“We are thrilled to have these exemplary individuals serve on the Cieslok Board of Directors,” he says. “They bring considerable depth of experience and expertise, and will provide invaluable guidance to Cieslok as we continue to grow.”

Robbie Isenberg

Since Green joined Clairvest in 2002, his responsibilities have focused on domain research and investment origination, structuring and execution. He previously worked in leveraged finance for BNP Capital Markets and in corporate finance for Bank of America after beginning his career in operations management at Bloomingdale’s flagship store.

Isenberg joined Clairvest in 2010 and participates in all areas of the investment process. Prior to joining Clairvest,

Robbie worked as a Senior Case Team Leader for the Monitor Group based in New York. Robbie also earlier worked in the investment banking group of Credit Suisse in Los Angeles focused on leveraged finance and mergers and acquisitions.

Checkeris was part of the leadership team at Media Buying Services that literally redefined the Canadian agency landscape by pioneering the concept of liberated media planning and buying from traditional agencies. MBS went on to become the largest media company in the country and was eventual acquired by WPP and became known as MediaCom where Checkeris was the Canadian CEO and then promoted to North American CEO overseeing seven offices and more than $6 billion in annual media spending.

Mitch Green

With over 25 years of agency experience, Checkeris has worked and managed the entire spectrum of agency disciplines and has worked with such clients as P&G, GlaxoSmithKline, TD/Canada Trust, Subway, Warner Bros., Audi, BMW, Mini, Volkswagen, E*Trade, Pfizer, Discovery Card and Rogers.

Since leaving MediaCom, Checkeris has focused on several startups including Qwyrk which brings sound to digital self expression, Nestbuilder.com which is disrupting the market for real estate lead generation in the US, and UnReel Games which offers an innovative new user experience to online slot gaming.

As a member of GNR8R’s leadership team, he brings a drive for new ideas, directions and business models that challenge the status quo.

Woods is also an experienced advertising professional, spending over 12 years in an executive role at MediaCom, over five years in an executive role at Pattison Outdoor Company and Jim Pattison Group, and recently joined GLH Group – Family Investment Office as chairman, Investment Committee. He is member of the Board of Directors of several organizations, including Nu Flow Holdings Limited, where he is chairman of the Board, Aware Ltd. and Forge First Holdings Company.

Cieslok Media, Toronto, has appointed Tim Harris to the position of director, national sales, while Mike Blanchard, who formerly held that position, moves to become director, mobile media.

Tim Harris

“Our business is evolving,” says Jörg Cieslok, president and CEO. “While we continue to focus our efforts on our digital out-of-home growth across Canada, at the same time, our mobile offerings have become expansive. It became evident to us over the past several months that there was a high demand for our unique mobile targeting capabilities. This is why we decided to move forward with creating a dedicated department to manage this business.”

Harris has over 25 years of experience in advertising sales and management, with a proven track record of success. He started his career on the agency side, and moved into advertising sales with the Toronto Sun before joining some of the largest broadcasters with Baton, Canwest and Shaw Media.

Mike Blanchard

Blanchard has 14 years of sales management experience, representing some of the largest media brands in North America.

His background in digital landscape analysis, digital strategy and optimization for some of the country’s largest publications proved extremely advantageous for Cieslok.

In the role of director, national sales, Blanchard worked with the national advertising community to build and promote Cieslok’s out-of-home and mobile offerings.

With a keen aptitude for digital, Mike forged some strategic relationships with partners that put Cieslok’s unique targeting offerings on the map in the mobile industry.

Gemma Reynolds joined APN Outdoor in Sydney this week as an Account Manager. Gemma (shown below) took the role, vacated by Debbie Webb who has been promoted to Group Sales Manager (GSM), effective immediately.

Debbie (shown below) joined APN Outdoor in 2009. In this new role, Debbie will be responsible for a group of highly regarded agencies, each with significant and experienced outdoor clientele.

David Pullinger, APN Outdoor NSW Sales Director said of the appointment, “Debbie has established herself as an outstanding sales performer over her time at APN Outdoor. Her passion for the role, company and overall industry is palpable, and we are thrilled to see her taking on another challenge, and look forward to seeing her achieve in this capacity.”

Gemma brings with her industry knowledge from several years’ experience working in the outdoor industry, and a highly regarded reputation.

This growth and development in the Sydney sales team comes at an exciting time for APN Outdoor as they focus on the large scale rollout of their digital rail offering, XtrackTV, as well as sustaining leadership in the large format digital space with Elite Screens.

It looks like good progress being made with another four new digital billboards from JCDecaux in London at Old Street, EC1. This is another conversion of a previously high profile static site, arranged on all four sides.

The structure sits above the middle of the busy Old Street roundabout, which is part of the inner ring road on the edge of the centre-of-town congestion charging zone. This means that any East-West traffic avoiding its charge during the day passes though here.

You can see an artist’s impression and a rather nice Lego model of what it will look like when completed here.

We understand that it is still due for completion in October.

Coinciding with Tuesday, Sept. 23’s day of the 2014 UN Climate Change Summit, Clear Channel Outdoor launched an outdoor campaign with climate leadership group C40 Cities to raise awareness of the role of cities in combatting climate change.

Clear Channel Outdoor’s William Eccleshare

The ads, connecting citizens to the work of C40, are displayed on Clear Channel Outdoor’s flagship inventory in Times Square during the UN Climate Change Summit, with Clear Channel Outdoor donating the space.

By showing the campaign in one of the world’s most famous symbols of urban and commercial vitality, both organizations are demonstrating their commitment to connecting with urban citizens.

This is a thought-provoking and impactful campaign, and the result of a global NGO and global commercial enterprise coming together to show citizens that ensuring cities are sustainable is pivotal to combating climate change.

Clear Channel Outdoor’s William Eccleshare and Barcelona’s Manel Sanromà

William Eccleshare, CEO of Clear Channel Outdoor, launched the campaign yesterday in Times Square alongside Manel Sanromà, chief information officer of Barcelona City Council, which is a leading C40 city.

The C40 campaign is displayed on Clear Channel’s Spectacolor sign located above the Times Square McDonald’s.

C40, established in 2005, is a global network representing more than 500 million people in 69 engaged megacities, committed to reducing their greenhouse gas emissions and increasing climate resilience through the implementation of measurable, replicable and sustainable climate-related policies locally, which address climate change globally.

Due to its growth, MediaVue Systems moved into a larger location. Still located outside of Boston, in Hingham, Massachusetts, the new office space is better suited to accommodate the company’s growing production demand and its enhanced research and development initiatives.

MediaVue Systems is now located at 35 Pond Park Road #14, Hingham, MA 02043. Its numbers are still the same, but its phone lines will not be accessible until Monday, September 29, 2014.

We haven’t had any news from MediaVue lately, but a glence at its website shows a wide range of installations globally, including Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, France, the UK and others, in addition to the U.S..

Sales of large screen LED video displays and scoreboards to collegiate athletic facilities across the country continue to increase for Trans-Lux Corporation, New York, with its most recent sale includes a TL Vision center-hung, four-sided 10mm LED display system at Virginia’s Hampton University’s Convocation Center arena.

The new LED display system at the arena, home to Pirate Pride and Division 1 NCAA action, is being driven by Trans-Lux’s powerful epic Series LED System Software Suite from a newly constructed production and control room.

Rich in history, steeped in tradition, Hampton University is a dynamic, progressive institution of higher education, providing a broad range of technical, liberal arts, and graduate degree programs. In addition to being one of the top historically black universities in the world, Hampton University is a tightly-knit community of learners and educators, representing 49 states and 35 territories and nations.

“Our market analysis continues to show that while the size and scope of LED display systems at colleges and universities continues to increase, higher education institutions like Hampton University are focusing on performance and return on investment more than ever before,” says J.M. Allain, president and CEO of Trans-Lux Corporation. “The better news is that Trans-Lux is meeting this market demand with innovative LED display solutions that deliver higher performance, cost-efficiencies and overall value. The new TL Vision center-hung, four-sided 10mm LED display lighting up Hampton University’s Convocation Center is testimony to the value proposition Trans-Lux provides large sporting venues.”

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Wuxi Inter IKEA Center Property Company Ltd. in Wuxi, China, recently installed a large video display and covered a three-story glass elevator shaft with freeform LED elements from Daktronics of Brookings, South Dakota.

“Daktronics provides state-of-the-art LED technology with its quality assured, both in use and installation,” says Magnus d’Oldenburg, senior property director for Inter Ikea Center China Ltd. “Our new huge screen makes an unforgettable impression.”

The freeform installation covers three sides of the elevator with Daktronics ProPixel freeform elements on 50 millimeter line spacing. The back section measures 15.46 meters high by 7.6 meters wide and each side section measures 15.46 meters high by 2.6 meters wide. The store can now provide relevant, timely advertising and messaging to shoppers in a space that is commonly used for static signage.

The main video display measures 9.8 meters high by 6 meters wide and features 10 millimeter line spacing of Surface-Mount Device LEDs. SMD displays allow for tighter LED spacing to provide crisp, clear imagery and video with exceptional contrast and wide angle visibility.

“The Inter IKEA Center Group selected Daktronics out of the field of vendors to provide LED video displays for its Wuxi Livet Shopping Center,” says Jon Minor, China sales and marketing director. “We understood that they were interested in providing very special display systems to helps differentiate their facility in the Chinese market. By reviewing the interior design and visiting with the designers on the project, we created special designs to give them artistic displays that would provide revenue-generating opportunities for the venue.”

The new displays will help create a pleasant atmosphere in the shopping center with ambient lighting while also providing additional pertinent information.

Four Winds Interactive (FWI) this week announced a new software release that it says will dramatically improve how clients build, deploy and manage their enterprise visual communications networks

The release is accompanied by a user-friendly ‘app store’ containing hundreds of images, videos, apps, templates, and much more that can be used to quickly design and populate visual displays—whether one screen at a time, or enterprise-wide.

The software release, dubbed 5.0, has been in development for more than a year and has been designed to make creating an enterprise visual communications network as easy as programming a smartphone with user preferences.

“Until now, really creative, impactful visual communication systems have been in the exclusive domain of companies with big marketing and design teams,” said David Levin, president and CEO of Four Winds Interactive. “We wanted to create a system that would empower every company to create a visual communications network that could match their biggest ideas with easy to use technology.”

FWI developed a number of proprietary tools and features to create their latest release, taking care to make each component as easy to use as possible. “Most people chartered with creating visual communications for a company have other responsibilities, so they don’t have time to learn a complex system. We were inspired by the way most of us find and use applications on our smartphones to build out a custom experience. That’s what we’ve created with Software 5.0 and the FWI Store,” added Levin.

FWI’s Software 5.0 has five main features:

1. FWI Store The FWI Store contains pre-built templates, applications, content, and plug-ins on a subscription basis that can be used to quickly customize display designs with the most up-to-date and dynamic content. The FWI Store is conveniently accessible from the Content Manager platform.
2. Sharable Applications FWI’s software now enables users to create, publish, and share custom applications, or leverage content from the FWI Store.
3. Remote Web Management The Content Manager Web platform now lets users manage their network anytime, anywhere from any web-enabled device.
4. Content Approval Workflow The newly added workflow functionality provides an integrated approval process for content. Automated email notifications are sent when new content is added and managers can view a real-time task list to see and approve requests waiting in their queue.
5. Network Monitoring Network monitoring has been integrated into Content Manager Desktop, enabling clients to monitor the health and status of their network in real-time with customizable dashboards.

Software 5.0 and the FWI Store are available now.  Current clients can upgrade by contacting their FWI sales representative or visiting www.fourwindsinteractive.com.