Archive for May, 2012

Marc Benson @Signagelive CTO With His @Raspberry_Pi

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Andrew Neale

Signagelive are developing an OpenSplash player and API for their platform. CEO Jason Cremins told us “Signagelive will be offering free developer networks for those keen to explore and develop the next generation of open standards cloud based digital media devices.” That development has already involved having OpenSplash booted up on a Raspberry Pi unit. […]

MediaTile Investor In Ponzi Scheme Accusation

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Two members of MediaTile’s board of directors, including their Chairman, might well have a few more important things on their mind at the moment than the actual welfare of MediaTile. Chris Luck, founding managing general partner of GLR Growth Fund LP, a private investment fund in Scotts Valley, CA who is MediaTile chairman and Keith […]

DMAF Announces First Ever Digital Media Forum, November 2012

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

The Digital Media Association France (DMAF) has announced the creation of the first edition of its ‘Digital Media Forum‘ – the event will take place on 7th November 2012 in Paris and hopes to bring together the main players in the market: ad sales agencies, advertisers, media agencies, content providers, networks, suppliers, integrators…. The Digital […]

Olive Media Creates Touchscreen Ad To Showcase Infiniti

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

A new interactive ad allows iPad 2 users to take a 360-degree panoramic look around the all-new Infiniti JX’s interior by moving and tilting their device, while other tablet users will be able to do so at the touch of their finger. The rich-media mobile campaign was designed to give consumers a peek at the […]

ZeeVee Inc. Names Bob Michaels Senior VP, Worldwide Sales

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’ve discovered that our friend Bob Michaels is now holding the position of senior vice-president of worldwide sales for ZeeVee, where he is helping grow sales in North America as well as expanding the five-year-old company’s offers internationally. ZeeVee products convert video sources such as digital signage players, satellite receivers or any other content and […]

DigiCast Networks Acquires RMG’s NYT Digital Cafe Network

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

San Francisco-based DigiCast Networks, a division of Brite Media Group, has purchased RMG’s café digital signage network, referred to at RMG as its NYTimes.com Today network. Price of the acquisition was not disclosed. DigiCast will transition the network into its existing digital Café Network and in total will now have over 650 café locations and […]

Digital Place-Based Network Showcase, NYC

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

No indication of a date in this announcement from Exponation, LLC but frankly the event doesn’t make sense to Exponation, the industry or the networks they are trying to attract unless it coincides somehow with the now-usual big week in NYC† – i.e the DPAA Media Summit on Tuesday 16th October, followed by our Investor […]

Amscreen Gives Halifax Extra

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

“Is there no stopping Amscreen?” we asked back in December 2009 after we had just spotted an Amscreen install in a Halifax bank branch in the Dartford High Street. Well, whatever trial they were doing may have taken several years but it seems to have paid off as news just in that Amscreen (the UK’s […]

Euro 2012 Spurs Ocean Outdoor Offers

Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Ocean Outdoor has got into the swing of Euro 2012, creating two digital outdoor offers to give brands the chance to closely align themselves with the international football tournament which kicks off a massive summer of sports next month. Ocean’s ‘Follow England’ digital pack offers advertisers activity around England’s three Group D qualifying games from […]

Eye Switch On World’s Largest Mobile Enabled OOH Network

Monday, May 28th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Eye this week announced the launch and immediate activation of Amplify – a a technology-agnostic platform which they say is the world’s largest mobile enabled digital Out-of-Home network! Amplify enables advertisers to extend traditional Out-of-Home campaigns onto mobile phones using QR (Quick Response codes), NFC (Near Field Communications), SMS and AR (Augmented Reality). In the […]