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AV Jobs provide a highly specialist Recruitment Service for Audio Visual manufacturers, distributors and resellers.

They also work within the broadcast, events and unified communications industries providing quality and experienced staff at all levels – from board members through management, field service and sales, as well as on-site technical and sales people.

Their Consultants have experience within the AV industry and fully understand all areas from sales through system design and installation, hire and events, operations and service.

Here are this week’s selection of #AVjobs from them…

• SALES SUPPORT ENGINEER (TECHNICAL ARCHITECT)
  Job Type Permanent Full Time
  Location Germany or Switzerland
  Area Germany, Europe
  Sector Sales Engineer Engineer – Audio Visual Engineer – Design Engineer – Technical Architect
  Salary £55000 – £65000 Per Annum Euros 55k-65k p.a. plus car allowance
  Currency GBP
  Start Date ASAP
  Advertiser AV Jobs
  Job Ref AV29901
• INTERNAL SALES ACCOUNT MANAGER – VENDOR
  Job Type Permanent Full Time
  Location City of London
  Area City of London, England London South East, England London South West, England London North , England London North West, England
  Sector Sales Sales – Audio Visual Sales – Audio Sales – Channel – vendor Sales – Internal Account Manager Sales – Business Development
  Salary £35000 – £45000 Per Annum £35k-£45k plus benefits
  Currency GBP
  Start Date ASAP
  Advertiser AV Jobs
  Job Ref AV29897
• CUSTOMER SERVICES MANAGER
  Job Type Permanent Full Time
  Location Bournemouth or Poole
  Area Dorset, England
  Sector Engineer – Technical Support Engineer – Helpdesk Manager Manager – Service Delivery
  Salary £30000 – £35000 Per Annum £30k-£35k + benefits
  Currency GBP
  Start Date ASAP
  Advertiser AV Jobs
  Job Ref AV29896

iGotcha Media, a digital interactive studio specialized in building memorable screen-based customer experiences, today proudly welcomed two new senior vice presidents to its management team.

Marcos Terenzio is now iGotcha Media’s Vice President, Creative and Strategy, and Kim Zakaib is Vice President, Operations. Each brings 20+ years of experience and expertise in the design of public and retail spaces with deep understandings of how to create memorable customer experiences.

• Marcos Terenzio will lead iGotcha Media’s Toronto office and drive the company’s creative and strategic initiatives to help clients deliver integrated brand experiences. He is a highly-experienced strategist with more than 25 years of international experience with Fortune 500 clients including Nike, Apple, Coca-Cola, TD, Bell, Wal-Mart, BMW, Kraft and Burger King. Prior to joining iGotcha Media, Marcos created and led the Digital Experience division of Shikatani Lacroix Design (SLD), one of Canada’s leading branding and retail design agencies. Earlier in his career, he helped launch a digital agency for St. Joseph Communications (SJC) one of Canada’s largest privately-owned communications companies.
• Kim Zakaib will direct iGotcha Media’s corporate operations while establishing the best practices required for the company to succeed at the highest levels. After 21 years she recently departed Aedifica, a full service architecture and design firm headquartered in Montreal. As Vice President, Retail, Kim oversaw a team of 40 architects, designers, project managers and technicians in the execution of construction projects with individual budgets up to $40 million USD. In a period of about eight years, Kim nearly doubled her department’s annual revenues. During her time at Aedifica, she worked with numerous leading retailers and brands including Zara, Club Monaco, Birks, Desjardins, Bose, Swarovski and Aldo Group. Kim holds an EMBA from McGill/HEC Montreal and a B.A.Sc. in Industrial Design from Carleton University.

iGotcha Media is a digital interactive studio specialized in building memorable screen-based customer experiences. Solutions include screens, interactive kiosks, video walls, RFID technology, audience-measurement technology, wayfinding, payment solutions and in-store audio. We help our clients creatively communicate their value propositions. With offices in Montreal and Toronto, iGotcha Media’s clients include Birks, Browns Shoes, Cirque du Soleil, Groupe Touchette, Loto-Québec, National Bank of Canada, Nissan Canada, Reebok, Rona, Toronto Congress Centre and VIA Rail Canada.

Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR), a leading owner of outdoor advertising and logo sign displays has announced that Jay Johnson has been appointed Chief Financial Officer effective October 1, 2019.

Jay Johnson, 42, has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of DiamondRock Hospitality Company (NYSE: DRH) since April 2018, where he has led all financial activities for the lodging real estate investment trust, including treasury, investor relations, tax, risk management, financial reporting and analysis and capital raising.

Prior to joining DiamondRock, he served as Senior Vice President and Treasurer at Host Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: HST), an S&P 500 company, where he completed more than $14 billion in debt and equity capital transactions in 12 countries.

He is a native of Bastrop, La. and will succeed Keith Istre, who announced in January his intent to retire from Lamar on December 31, 2019. Mr. Istre will become Chief Financial Officer Emeritus on October 1, 2019 and help Mr. Johnson transition into his new role.

Mr. Johnson received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in economics from Morehouse College.

ZetaDisplay AB (publ) (Nasdaq Stockholm:ZETA) has announced that the board Of ZetaDisplay has appointed Per Mandorf as new President and CEO.

He is 46 years old and currently the Commercial Director at Extenda Retail with responsibility for managing the company’s commercial development for products and services. He takes over as President and CEO after Leif Liljebrunn, who assumes a new role in the company as VP Merger and Acquisitions as previously communicated. Leif Liljebrunn remains as President and CEO until Per Mandorf takes up his new position on 1 September 2019.

Per Mandorf has during the last five years been active in the Visma group, the latest three as Manging Director of Visma Retail. At Visma Retail, Per had total financial responsibility and for the company’s strategic development and was involved in their M & A-processes. Prior to that, Per Mandorf had leading positions primarily in the retail trade, of which seven years as Nordic Sales and retail Manager at NilsonGroup.

Ubimo, a leading location intelligence technology company, this week launched an innovative self-service Out-of-Home attribution solution that puts an end to guesswork related to connecting OOH advertising to lift in total visits or the number of new visitors in-store.

Jean-Luc Decaux, Co-CEO of JCDecaux North America, which uses Ubimo’s attribution solution to help communicate the value of its OOH ads to brand clients, told us “Ubimo tackles OOH attribution measurement with a unique methodology that enables us to truly understand and confidently communicate the effectiveness of campaigns to our advertisers”.

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Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion, the world leaders in mid-air haptics, contactless interfaces and hand tracking technologies, today announced a strategic deal which will combine their expertise and create the world’s leading spatial interaction company. We are told that the combination of teams and their technologies will accelerate innovation and enhance commercial applications. This means both improving current solutions and driving new forms of contactless interactive products.

Ultrahaptics CEO, Steve Cliffe told us “We are building a company to support the changes between human and machine interaction that will define the 21st Century. Together, Ultrahaptics and Leap Motion products have the opportunity to be at the global epicentre of spatial interaction. Taking a holistic view of this exciting market, not only can we continue to create two hugely significant technologies, but we can max out the potential of combining them – proving that one plus one really can make three! With this deal, we’ll combine some of the best minds in human-computer interaction. We will be better placed to leverage our customer contacts and expand the vertical stack of immersive technologies, just as the applications which benefit from our collective strengths are moving into the mainstream”.

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NBCUniversal will air the first official ShoppableTV experience with Lacoste from the 2019 French Open from Roland-Garros during the first NBC televised match of Lacoste’s brand ambassador Novak Djokovic. The experience will feature a unique platform to shop the Lacoste X Novak Djokovic Collection in real time.

Josh Feldman, Executive Vice President, Head of Marketing and Advertising Creative, NBCUniversal said “We are thrilled to officially launch ShoppableTV by pairing two iconic brands: Lacoste and the French Open. For the first time ever fans can shop the Lacoste X Novak Djokovic Collection while watching him play in real time. This is just the beginning. ShoppableTV will revolutionize the way millions of viewers will watch television and purchase the brands they love across the entire NBCUniversal portfolio.”

ShoppableTV is a new offering from NBCUniversal that creates a seamless shopping experience, giving viewers the opportunity to purchase products alongside their favorite NBCUniversal stories, shows, and sporting events.

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Reaffirming its commitment to provide the market with ideas on how to better engage with today’s increasingly tech-centric travelers while improving the efficiencies of their operations, NanoLumens, award-winning creators of uniquely compelling interactive LED visualization solutions, this week announced the availability of a new white paper focused on how advanced visualization solutions are playing a key role in defining the contemporary airport terminal experience.

NanoLumens Vice President of Global Marketing and Business Development Joe’ Lloyd told us “On average, more than 65-million people now pass through each of the ten busiest United States airports annually. Many thousands more arrive and depart each day as airport and airline employees. These numbers increase annually and, as they do, the infrastructure constraints of each airport and the expectations of each traveler and airline increase accordingly”.

“Pressure is constantly mounting on airports to optimize their efficiency, enrich the experiences of their passengers, and maximize the long-term viability of their existing infrastructure. As these pressures diversify and expand, so too must the solutions airports integrate to counter these demands. As with any transportation hub, the on-site experience for customers and businesses in an airport is intimately tethered to the availability of communications. The logistics of moving these passengers and employees through vast concourses on tight schedules can be impossibly complex, but precision and pragmatism are essential for a successful experience. Such a daunting challenge requires comprehensive communication tools to ensure that processes run smoothly, safely, and on time but there are few technologies capable of effectively delivering broadly applicable yet highly specific real-time information to vast groups of transitory audiences”.

According to Lloyd, the most effective solution that consistently accomplishes this objective over time is dynamic signage. Dynamic digital signage solutions, specifically of the commercial LED variety, dramatically improve access to information. Visible from much greater distances than traditional signage and more effective at standing out amidst a sea of distractions, dynamic signage frees passengers to behave autonomously and frees airport administrators to focus on their own operations rather than the needs of individual passengers.

The white paper spotlights specific airports that are ahead of the curve in realizing the full benefits of integrating LED visualization solutions into their terminal operations. Highlighted airports include John F. Kennedy Airport in New York, Changi Airport in Singapore, the Toronto Pearson International Airport, the Vancouver International Airport, McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, Stansted and Heathrow Airports in London, and the Charlotte Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, North Carolina, among many others.

The new white paper, entitled ‘The Role of Dynamic Signage in an Evolving Airport Environment‘, is available for download here.

Following on from premium out-of-home media owner Ocean acquiring both Ngage Media and Interbest in March 2019, news comes that Interbest (now part of Ocean of course) has expanded its digital roadside advertising offer, with the acquisition of Beyond Outdoor.

We are told that this deal concludes discussions, which were underway back in March. All three Dutch companies now form part of the Ocean Group.

Beyond Outdoor is a pure digital player operating eight sites and 11 screens in prime locations on the busiest road and motorway networks. Its portfolio covers the Randstad megalopolis of Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht.

The acquisition augments Interbest’s extensive premium national distribution network, providing enhanced targeting for advertisers. This transaction includes plans to develop three new locations.

Announcing the deal, Meindert van den Heuvel, Interbest managing director, told us “We are on track to accelerate our DOOH presence by building the best and biggest large format DOOH network, developing new propositions for agencies and advertisers. Complementing the Beyond sites is a pipeline of other premium roadside sites which are due to come on online before the year end.”

The business will be operated by Interbest. Beyond Outdoor founder Danny Tournier steps down following the transaction.

To celebrate the launch of Coca-Cola Energy, Coca-Cola Great Britain has launched a multi-million-pound fully integrated campaign that invites people to ‘Spread Your Positive Energy”’ and it kicked off with a flash mob in Piccadilly Circus, some serious graphics up on Piccadilly Lights and a takeover of the O2 over the bank holiday weekend.

Taking place in front of the iconic Piccadilly Lights, a host of dancers surprised and delighted passers-by with an energetic routine, whilst also offering samples to consumers to try the latest addition to the Coca-Cola line up.

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