Archive for May, 2014

John Ryan Lose Robin Underwood

Friday, May 30th, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

John Ryan International continue to lose good staff. Business Development Director and UK, London based Robin Underwood managed to last almost nine years with Nancy but left this past month to take up a position with Adobe. Robin (obviously) never liked our hatred of John Ryan and was very protective of Nancy’s seeming ineptitude but […]

CEO Spotlight: Jorg Cieslok, Cieslok Media, Toronto

Friday, May 30th, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This month, we welcome Jorg Cieslok, president and CEO, Cieslok Media, Toronto, Canada. Cieslok Media has a varied out-of-home and digital out-of-home inventory. How many of your screens are digital? And in Toronto’s Dundas Square, where you own 80% of the inventory, how much of that is digital? Any conversion plans? Our legacy inventory has […]

Cineplex Digital Media Announce Place-Based Digital Ecosystem

Friday, May 30th, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

While we were traveling recently, Cineplex Digital Media and Oxford Properties Group announced plans to create (what they call) North America’s first place-based digital ecosystem in 10 high-profile shopping centres across Canada. The concept integrates architectural digital media, mobile technology, social media, experiential technologies, and digital media sales and analytics, providing an opportunity to inspire […]

More On @Daktronics @OceanOutdoorUK in Newcastle

Friday, May 30th, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Daktronics Inc. of Brookings, South Dakota, told us more about its partnership with Ocean Outdoor to provide an LED video display to advertise to the public at large in Newcastle, U.K. The installation, the first digital roadside display installed in Newcastle located in the city’s highest traffic area, is also the first installation of an […]

Still Irrelevant, @ComQi That Is (Despite Protests)

Friday, May 30th, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

You have got to hand it to ComQi, they are nothing if not obvious. Fresh from news that one of their last remaining networks, on being acquired, would switch to BroadSign (losing whatever revenue they had on approximately 500 licenses), they issue an almost immediate press release on some nonsensical software update to try and […]

Ged Weston & Jim Cohen Join Eye Airports

Friday, May 30th, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

Eye Airports, the UK’s leading airport advertising company has strengthened its sales team with the appointment of Ged Weston as Sales Director, and Jim Cohen as Head of Agency Sales. These high profile appointments are part of the overall growth of the sales team that will provide two fully integrated agency teams with responsibility for […]

Klaus Hofmeier Joins Scala

Friday, May 30th, 2014

Andrew Neale

Scala has strengthened its presence in the German market, bringing Klaus Hofmeier on board to join the German focused sales division. Klaus Hofmeier will be working alongside Helge Haarig and Carsten Berkenbrink. The hire is, we are told, a direct response to the accelerated growth that Scala has seen in the past 12 months, and […]

AVNation’s #AVtweeps #InfoComm14 AV Tweetup

Wednesday, May 28th, 2014

Andrew Neale

Nice to see the tradition of #AVtweeps AV Tweetup continuing this year at #InfoComm14… AVNation’s #AVtweeps AV Tweetup! Wednesday, June 18, 2014 from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM (PDT) Las Vegas, NV You can register here.

David Paolo Now Wearing Two Hats

Wednesday, May 28th, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

David Paolo is now chairman of the Board at Alpha Nutrition Inc. (aka doggiefood.com). Paolo tells us that he has not left GoGoCast – which is becoming GoGo Media Networks, where he is president and CEO, based in Cranston, Rhode-island. But he has also become a 25% equity owner in Alpha Nutrition, an online retailer […]

Ronin’s New CFO Sued By Previous Employer

Tuesday, May 27th, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

John Walpuck who joined Ronin Technologies Inc., Minneapolis, as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer from a similar dual role at AllDigital Holdings Inc.. in April 2014 is seemingly being sued by his previous employer. On May 16, 2014, AllDigital Holdings, Inc. filed a suit in the Superior Court of the State of California in […]