Archive for June, 2010

More On The Apps World

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’ve been watching the thousands of apps launched for the various smart phones and, of course, lately for the iPad, as well as some of the tools being used to help develop them. They certainly are popular. Research firm Nielsen surveyed 4,200 mobile phone owners, and found that 21% of this group had downloaded an […]

Extreme Reach Raises $9 Million

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Extreme Reach, Needham, Mass.-based provider of digital video advertising distribution services, has closed a $9 million second round of financing, led by Village Ventures. Previous backers Greycroft Partners and Long River Ventures also participated in the round, which was comprised of $7 million in equity and $2 million in term debt. ExtremeReach, founded in 2008, […]

MicroTiles Shown To Cinema Community

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Christie digital Systems took an ambitious approach to this year’s Cinema Expo International 2010 in Amsterdam this past week. As a market leader in digital cinema projection, Christie showcased exclusively to the international cinema community its multi-configurable modular digital canvas, MicroTiles. The award-winning system was developed with digital signage applications in mind, such as lobby […]

Smile-Activated Ice Cream Vending Machine

Monday, June 28th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

SapientNitro, part of Sapient (NASDAQ: SAPE), unveiled last week what is undoubtedly the world’s first smile-activated vending machine for Unilever. Unilever is of course the world’s biggest ice cream manufacturer and has diverse brands such as Wall’s, Ben & Jerry’s, Good Humor, Breyers and Klondike in its portfolio. This ice cream vending machine is an […]

The Digital Signage Masters Series: Toronto, July 21

Sunday, June 27th, 2010

Dmitry Sokolov

Novice and industry experts alike are invited to the first event in the Digital Signage Masters Series to be held at the Air Canada Center in Toronto Canada. Conceived and organised by Lyle Bunn, the event will focus on the APEX award-winning 300+ screen Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment installation in the Air Canada Center. Attendees will get to […]

HOUSEKEEPING – New Banner Advertisers 20

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Andrew Neale

We are pleased to announce (and of course thank) two new advertisers who have just joined us: Minicom Digital Signage who are running a couple of campaigns during the summer (and have knocked our little bird off of his perch) and NEC / VUKUNET who have taken space in our lead banner. As usual, thanks […]

Will Work For Love

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Coming up the first Monday in July in our regular WILL WORK FOR LOVE feature is Keith Nilsen, Digital Outdoor Network Manager with Clear Channel in the UK.

Kinetic And Grand Visual In Joint Venture?

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Described in their own words on the web site as a “a web-based workflow tool for managing the specification and trafficking of copy for digital out-of-home campaigns in the UK” Accelerator, which can be seen here (unless they take it down before any official launch) is we believe is a joint venture between Kinetic Worldwide […]

POPAI’s Digital Store Initiative, In-Store Show, London

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This store at next week’s In-Store Show, is aimed at educating retailers, brands and their agencies about how effective DMiR can be AND is exactly the sort of thing we’d like to see at other shows (#ScreenMediaExpo, #ISEUROPE are you listening?) We are told that POPAI are expecting hundreds of visitors to the store, with […]

What’s Your Favourite Cookie?

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

This digital billboard in Times Square does NOT get turned on officially until July 8th but we thought it interesting enough, another example of mobile to digital billboard integration, to put up now… It’s a Daktronics 10 mm SMD LED video board we believe.