Archive for October, 2012

Consolidation Needed to Grow The Industry

Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Consolidation within the digital out-of-home/digital place-based media sector is generally seen as a necessity if the industry is to grow. “There are too many of us!” Bill Gerba, CEO, WireSpring,Fort Lauderdale, told the audience at the Digital Signage Investor Conference in New York last week. While that point is a given among the major industry […]

São Paulo Metro Line 4 Features 8 @NanoLumens LED Displays

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Latin America’s newest and most advanced subway line, São Paulo Metro Line 4, will soon be the location of nearly 2,000 digital displays throughout the line’s 11 stations AND the centerpiece of the project will be a multi-million dollar installation of eight large-format LED displays designed and manufactured by NanoLumens. According to NanoLumens Director of […]

DailyDOOH Gala Awards: Best Original Digital Billboard

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

Maddie Cotterill

Our Awards Jury actually found it hard to find that many, really innovative digital billboards outside of London – which is why two of the finalists below are in our great capital city, Ed. The judges were looking for the most original and innovative digital billboard (does not necessarily need to be roadside) and finalists […]

It’s DOOH Not #DpbMedia On The European Scene

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Shopping malls, as well as transportation (roadside, airports and train stations) are the Digital Out-of-Home verticals that have achieved major scale in Europe, Dirk Huelsermann, president of OVAB Europe, and manager of VUKUNET NEC Display Solutions, Europe, told attendees at the Digital Signage Investment Conference in New York last week. Huelsermann followed up his talk […]

Restructuring After Chapter 11

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

When one is asked their opinion on whom one considers to be the best speaker at a conference, sometimes it’s an easy choice. It wasn’t an easy choice at the Digital Signage Investor Conference in New York last week, but one of several who stood out for me, was Brian Dusho, CEO of BroadSign, who […]

#dse2013 Names Keynote Speaker

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Dr. Peter Bocko, chief technology officer for Corning Glass Technologies, Corning Inc., located in Corning, N.Y., will deliver the keynote address Wednesday, Feb. 27, at Digital Signage Expo’s 10th Anniversary, 2013, event in Las Vegas. #dse2013 bills itself as the world’s largest and longest running International Tradeshow and Conference dedicated to digital signage, interactive technology […]

Daktronics Eye Qantas

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012

Maddie Cotterill

Daktronics (Nasdaq – DAKT) of Brookings, S.D., announced this week that the company has partnered with Eye and Qantas to manufacture and install new LED video displays in the Qantas Domestic Terminals in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, Australia. The new display network, which consists of displays measuring nearly 3 meters high by 9 meters […]

Digital Vending Machine(s) Featured In Coke’s 007 Campaign

Monday, October 22nd, 2012

Dmitry Sokolov

While not confirmed whether this is an actual installation (and from the theatrics in the station it seems to be a one-day publicity stunt), it’s great to see Coke use digital vending machines in their marketing mix around this fall’s 50-years of Bond campaign. After being up on YouTube for just over a month, the video already scored over […]

Neo Advertising Wins Over TUI Deutschland

Monday, October 22nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Neo Advertising, one of the leading marketers in digital-out-of-home advertising in Europe, and TUI Deutschland have entered into a national marketing cooperation agreement. Europe’s largest travel tourism group is putting its (own) 700+ digital displays in travel agencies (and in airplanes) in the hands of Neo Advertising. Sven C. Jacobi, Managing Partner, Neo Advertising told […]

VeriFone Media’s Growth Strategy Means Thinking Big

Monday, October 22nd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

VeriFone Media is big and thinking bigger as its continues to acquire new companies and develop new products. Back a year ago, the DailyDOOH team had visited VeriFone Media ’s offices where we were told “We’re the biggest digital media company nobody ever heard of.” Now we can see, through the VeriFone Media and its […]