Archive for September, 2012

First Digital Billboard in Grand Junction

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Installed by Mile High Outdoor of Denver and manufactured by Watchfire Digital Outdoor of Danville, Illinois, the first digital billboard has now shown up on Interstate 70 Business at Main Street in Grand Junction, Colorado. The 10’ x 30’, 19mm digital billboard replaces a static billboard in the same location. The new billboard is Mile […]

Great Visibility 4 PRN (And #DpbMedia In General)

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Premier Retail Networks LLC (PRN), a Technicolor company and one of the leaders in Digital Place-based Media services and advertising sales, announced this week that it is a Gold Tier Partner of Advertising Week 2012. During the event, which will be held October 1 – 5 in New York, PRN will demonstrate how brands can […]

Wenda Harris Millard Joins Verifone’s Board

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Maddie Cotterill

VeriFone Systems, Inc. announced yesterday that Wenda Harris Millard, president and chief operating officer of MediaLink LLC, was named to VeriFone’s board of directors. She will also join the company’s compensation committee. VeriFone CEO Douglas G. Bergeron told us “Wenda Harris Millard is a seasoned executive with more than 30 years in publishing, advertising and […]

Avnet – JBTec – mediaVue Partnership For Brazil

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

MediaVue Systems has entered into a partnership with Avnet Electronics Marketing, an operating group of Avnet Inc., and JBTec to supply hardware to the growing digital signage market in Brazil. Under the agreement, the Avnet Embedded division of Avnet Electronics Marketing Americas will distribute mediaVue’s sureVue line of digital signage Player PCs throughout Brazil, while […]

Randomly Generated Animations Based On GPS Data

Thursday, September 27th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Pattison Onestop and Art for Commuters will present Drift: Transients, a specially commissioned, site-specific new-media installation on all Pattison Onestop subway screens without interruption for 12 hours from 7:03 p.m. on September 29, 2012 for Scotiabank Nuit Blanche. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche is a free all-night contemporary art event held for one night in Toronto. Drift: […]

Understanding Outdoor Digital Display Tech Specs 4 QSR

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

Andrew Neale

70% of a good QSR store’s business is ‘drive thru’ so this new Delphi Display Systems, Inc. white paper, ‘Understanding the Technical Specifications of Outdoor Digital Displays for QSR‘ maybe rather useful. It aims to assist QSR owners and managers in understanding the technical information related to Order Confirmation Systems (OCS) and other outdoor digital […]

OAAA/TAB National Convention and Trade Show

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

Maddie Cotterill

Next year’s OAAA/TAB National Convention and Trade Show switches from Florida to the West Coast. The event is being held Sunday, May 19 to Tuesday, May 21 2013 at the JW Marriott at LA Live! 900 West Olympic Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90015

New Members And A Loss For @DPAads

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’ve heard via the grapevine that the Digital Place-based Advertising Association has added four new members: Titan (which doesn’t surprise us, especially since the company launched Titan Air), Intel, Access Sports Media and (a little surprise here) Walmart Smart Network. And we’ve also heard of a loss, not of a member company we hasten to […]

My @DPAads Conference Expectations By Ashley Flaska

Wednesday, September 26th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We wanted to find out what individuals and sponsors are looking for when they attend a conference such as the upcoming Oct. 16 Digital Place-based Advertising Association Digital Media Summit, so figured that there was no better person to ask than Ashley Flaska, vice-president marketing at NEC Display Solutions. NEC VUKUNET is major sponsor at […]

DigiCast To Shed Its Screen Networks

Tuesday, September 25th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

In May 2012 San Francisco-based DigiCast Networks, a division of Brite Media Group, purchased RMG’s café digital signage network (referred to at RMG as its NYTimes.com Today network), in June it joined the DPAA, celebrated the fact that its Gas Station Radio had surpassed 1,000 installed locations AND we featured Chris Lanman, Senior Vice-President, in […]