Archive for August, 2013

Jeff Klaas New V-P For Business Products At Christie

Thursday, August 22nd, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Jeff Klaas has joined Christie, global supplier of visual technology displays, Cypress, California, as vice-president for its business products division, with responsibility of managing business products strategies across diverse product platforms. Klaas reports to Jack Kline, president & COO, Christie Digital Systems USA Inc.. He will support each of the company’s key geographic regions and […]

BroadSign No Slouch In The Current Economy

Wednesday, August 21st, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We hear that BroadSign has been going great guns, quietly adding more than two dozen new clients since the beginning of the year, and increasing staff from 32 to 40. (We notice several job openings on its web site, as well.) We expect to hear more about some of those new clients in the near […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Chicago Earns Ad Council’s Silver Bell

Wednesday, August 21st, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Kudos to the Chicago office of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc. which has been awarded the Ad Council’s Silver Bell Award, given annually to one outdoor company that exemplifies exceptional generosity and leadership in disseminating Ad Council public service messages. The Ad Council is a national non-profit organization and is believed to be the largest […]

If Big Data is the Answer – What is the Question?

Tuesday, August 20th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

On 23rd October in NYC, Ayuda Media Systems CEO and co-founder Andreas Souptonuts, will speak at The DailyDOOH Investor Conference on the subject of BIG DATA. By Gartner Group’s definition; ‘high volume, high velocity, and/or high variety information assets that require new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization’ […]

DPAA Summit Video Everywhere Speaker Line Up

Tuesday, August 20th, 2013

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

The 22nd October DPAA Summit Video Everywhere sure has lined up an impressive list of speakers and thankfully they don’t seem to be the ‘usual’ sort of suspects. At first glance it looks like new DPAA President Barry Frey is not afraid to shake things up a bit – I tend to agree, it’s nice to […]

Land Rover’s Interactive DOOH Campaign With Sound At UK Airports

Tuesday, August 20th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Land Rover is promoting the launch of the all-new Range Rover Sport with a special build digital outdoor campaign featuring an accelerator pedal, responsive interactive content and directional sound. The campaign was devised by RKCR/Y&R. The campaign will see existing Digital Eyelite screens adapted to include a Range Rover Sport accelerator pedal and the call […]

Roll Up @WirelessRonin’s Booth 4 Sale

Monday, August 19th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We know times are tough at Wireless Ronin but are they that bad that they have to try and raise USD 25,000 by selling off their not-so-old exhibition booth? We note up on Used Booths – a completely free classified ads web space for (you guessed it) ‘used booths’ item #2239 which states… Category: Island […]

Way2ride, VeriFone Taxi App Does Just About Everything

Monday, August 19th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We wondered what had been keeping our friend Jason Gross, vice-president of strategy and marketing at VeriFone Media, so busy lately, and now we know. VeriFone Systems has launched Way2ride, an app that allows you to check into a taxi to pay for your trip by simply tapping the screen at any time during the […]

5th Shanghai Digital Signage & Touch Technology Show Update

Monday, August 19th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

The last we heard about the 5th Shanghai Digital Signage And Touch Technology Show was that it was asking people to pay to speak. While we haven’t yet been told the name of any speakers (who may or may not have agreed to this), we are told that there will be professional seminars. However, we […]

Lexus Revs Up Ad Presence at Pearson Airport

Sunday, August 18th, 2013

Dmitry Sokolov

With a high volume of educated, well earning passengers airports are a logical place to promote high-end products making the below Lexus install a shoe-in at Canada’s Toronto Pearson Airport. Using a 16:9 video wall as a back-drop to the display allows to re-purpose many TV and classic media assets, adding to the versatility of […]