Archive for November, 2013

TPN’s Real-Time Shopper Sentiment Platform (Thanksgivukkah)

Wednesday, November 27th, 2013

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

Could 2013 mark the end of Black Friday in the US as we know it?  It all started when Thanksgiving + Hanukkah fell on the same week this year, creating the mega-holiday now known as ‘Thanksgivukkah’ – creating a cascading effect that has squeezed out a week of time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. In 2012, there […]

The DailyDOOH Gala Awards Team Hotel

Wednesday, November 27th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Our team hotel for The DailyDOOH Gala Awards is The Corinthia. Whilst our wonderful jury start arriving tomorrow (Thursday), other team members head up tonight with all the table goodies, books, brochures and of course eight ‘REGGIES‘ (shown above).

1,000 Amscreen Rollout, Kenya

Wednesday, November 27th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Amscreen, Europe’s leading digital media network owner, today announced a partnership with Kenya’s leading integrated communications services provider that will see its screens installed in 1,000 M-PESA outlets across the country. M-PESA, owned by mobile giant Safaricom, is a mobile phone based money transfer service. The deal, brokered by Amscreen’s distribution partner, SmartScreen in partnership with […]

More On Toshiba’s Ellumina Omnichannel Push

Wednesday, November 27th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Further to our story ‘Toshiba Launches Ellumina Digital Signage Brand‘, we’d add… We note that two weeks ago on 15 November 2013, Toshiba America Business Solutions applied for a trademark ‘E ELLUMINA OMNICHANNEL Trademark Goods & Services are described as ‘Software for use in connection with digital signage; software which allows interactive use of digital […]

Toshiba Launches Ellumina Digital Signage Brand

Wednesday, November 27th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Nearly a thousand sales professionals, end users, media and analysts who attended LEAD 2013, Toshiba America Business Solutions Inc.’s annual technology showcase in Orlando this month were present for the launch of Ellumina, Toshiba’s own digital signage brand (see here also). The new product line is comprised of two distinct platforms, Virtuoso and Experience Manager. […]

ADVider To Keep The Retail Customer Engaged

Wednesday, November 27th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

It’s always rather fun to discover a new digital product that we haven’t see before, and I find that Beatpixels ADVider for the grocery store is one of the first really interesting pieces in that genre that I’ve seen since the shelf edge digital signage that impressed so well at ScreenMedia Expo 2011 – we […]

Karl Javurek New FEPE President

Wednesday, November 27th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

FEPE International announced this week that following a recent board meeting in Vienna, Mr Karl Javurek, CEO of Gewista in Austria and long standing FEPE Vice-President will assume the role of President with immediate effect. Mr Javurek replaces Mr Jeremy Male of JCDecaux who resigned from the board of FEPE and the Presidency in September […]

Princess Cruises’ Emergency Response Center

Wednesday, November 27th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Princess Cruises, one of the world’s major cruise lines, is now supported with Christie visual display technologies in the company’s new cutting-edge Emergency Response Center at its Santa Clarita, California, headquarters. The center features a huge video display wall composed of 105 Christie MicroTiles, measuring 7’ high x 20’ wide, and powered by the Christie […]

Bruce Rowe Leaves Ballys

Tuesday, November 26th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Bruce Rowe, who put together Ballys digital signage strategy and finessed the purchase and on-boarding of Coolsign, back in 2008 (see here) left Ballys this week.

Layoffs At Pro-Motion Technology Group?

Tuesday, November 26th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It was ONLY 18 months ago that we wrote ‘Major Growth Plans For Pro-Motion Tech‘ but we’ve recently heard of layoffs.