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Live (Indeed) From @MobileFirstLook’s Mobile First 2012 Strategy Conference

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

I’ll be providing real-time posts on tumblr and twitter from the Mobile Marketer’s ‘Mobile First 2012 Strategy Conference‘ today… Follow me on twitter: @manolo_almagro or on my tumblr: http://reimagine.tumblr.com/

#CES – Top 3 Insights (The Rise of the Machines)

Friday, January 13th, 2012

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

Sadly, my attempts to live tweet/post from #CES this week were severely hampered with limited access to fast internet on my lame T-mobile 4G hotspot, not to mention finding a good mobile signal in some of the exhibit hall zones was an epic fail. Good news is: I’m back from Vegas and uploading all of [...]

Mobile Engagement Via QR Codes, NFC + Sonic Triggers

Friday, December 16th, 2011

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

This week we highlight three very different engagement technologies that provide ways for mobile shoppers to use their devices to move from off-line to on-line properties. Getting people to engage with your brand in-store continues to be the toughest part of a campaign. Lately however, getting people to use their mobile devices as part of [...]

Three Is A Magic Number

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

Greetings readers of the DailyDOOH. My new format for weekly posts will be based on ‘the power of three’  or ‘three is a magic number’ data chunking principals. Today I start with CyberMonday Kicks Ass, GoogleMaps Moves Indoors, and QR Code shopping for the holidays. Why three? Well because people comprehend information better in chunks [...]

Parallel Worlds: The DSA’s Awesome Asian Adventures…

Thursday, July 21st, 2011

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

It’s been a very busy few weeks for the DSA. Bob Michaels and yours truly kicked off a short – two city tour of DOOH conferences, all in the span of 3 days. 13-14 July, Singapore – Palmes Asia/Digital Display Tech Conference at the Marina Bay Sands Conference Center. The DSA sponsored a 1 day [...]

Parallel Worlds: What Privacy Concerns?

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

‘Internet Privacy Concerns Prompt Advertisers to Increase DOOH Ad Spend‘ wrote Jason M. Kates over on the usually quite good Digital Signage Expo site a week or so ago. This post should raise a few eyebrows. The Chairman, CEO and founder of rVue reports a surprising trend; it seems (he writes) that advertisers are turning [...]

Parallel Worlds: Integrated Campaigns, The Funnel and the Customer Journey

Tuesday, February 15th, 2011

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

The “Marketing Funnel” has been the mainstay for mapping consumer behavior and where brand’s should focus the majority of their media spend. We as an industry created a mashup version of the Funnel + the Customer Journey – to rationalize where digital OOH fits in the path to purchase. “The right message, at the right [...]

Parallel Worlds: A Decade of Digital…

Tuesday, January 4th, 2011

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

Now that 2011 is here and we have said goodbye to 2010 – we mark this benchmark in time with a long, hard look at the past decade through the lens of our industry to answer the question “have we- as an industry, learned anything in the past 10 years?” Here’s a brief synopsis of [...]

Parallel Worlds: Digital Signage World Asia 2010 Recap

Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

The Folks at Terrapin did an admirable job at pulling together the first Digital Signage World Asia in Singapore this week. From my perspective, the show had a decent attendance of 100+ considering its tiny footprint, (in comparison to DSE in Vegas) in fact it was very reminiscent of the early days of the DSE conferences. It [...]

#DSWAsia2010 – Digital Signage World Asia 2010

Tuesday, October 12th, 2010

Manolo Almagro, Weekly Columnist

The organizers for Digital Signage World Asia 2010 (to be held in Singapore 9th – 10th November) have been working overtime these past few months. The event’s speaker roster is shaping up very, very nicely. The conference offers a balanced mix of regional big media agencies like StarcomMediavest and ZenithOptimedia, some specialty digital agencies like [...]