Archive for May, 2014

Mike DiFranza To Lead glanz.tv Advisory Board

Wednesday, May 21st, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

glanz.tv, Washington, D.C.-based fast growing location-based digital out-of-home media companies, has formed a Scientific and Business Advisory Board, chaired by Mike DiFranza, CEO of Boston-based Otter Hill Advisors and former CEO of Captivate Network. The Board is composed of distinguished industry and thought leaders from diverse disciplines, with the mission of bringing industry expertise in […]

With @ScalaInc, We Can Do Almost Anything!

Wednesday, May 21st, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Scala Conferences are always good and always very well organized, and the one at the Timber Lodge in the Olympic Park last week, as part of London Digital Signage Week was certainly excellent as usual. Tom Nix used much of the same material that he gave at the Scala Americas Conference in Austin in April, stressing […]

OOHps He Did It Again..

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Nice article from the folks over at BroadSign ‘OOHps He Did It Again- London Digital Signage Week 2014‘ on all the work that folks put into last week’s London Digital Signage Week (and the events surrounding it).

Tim Bleakley’s Seminal Moment

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Tim Bleakley in his keynote at The DailyDOOH Media Summit last week, called the event a ‘seminal moment’ in the industry.  We had to look that up and do hope he was meaning the former (below) rather than the latter (below)… seminal ˈsɛmɪn(ə)l/ adjective 1. strongly influencing later developments. “his seminal work on chaos theory” […]

enVu Launches DigitalPlay Platform

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

enVu, a leading out-of-home (OOH) interactive media company and subsidiary of  STRATACACHE this week announced the launch of its new DigitalPlay platform. Turning any location into an attractive environment, DigitalPlay offers unique interactive experiences to connect consumers with brands via touch, mobile, social and augmented reality. Designed to engage audiences and build connections, DigitalPlay empowers […]

Reaching People in High Places, the @ECNlive Way

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

ECNLive is a relatively new company in Europe but has already deployed digital screens in lobbies of 150 buildings (mainly in London) right now (and is expected to have 200 buildings by year-end), is already in Paris and is looking at further expansion into the rest of continental Europe as well. The company reminds me […]

Telling A Story In Five Minutes

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

A series of elevator pitches, ie. timed five minute pitches by young companies wanting to get themselves known by The DailyDOOH Media Summit audience last week, was great fun and a rather clever way of kickstarting the afternoon’s proceedings… Neil McDonald of amBX started the session off on a high note, discussing the company’s interest […]

Tom Goddard Suggests New Trade Body 4 DOOH

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Tom Goddard, executive deputy chairman of Amscreen, Non Executive Chairman of Ocean Outdoor, Executive Chairman of Digicom and Executive Chairman of Adlux, told The DailyDOOH Media Summit audience in London last week, that packaging Out-of-Home and Digital Out-of-Home together is holding DOOH back. “DOOH would rediscover itself if seen as a stand-alone entity,” said Goddard, […]

The Vienna U-Bahn Embraces DEPs

Monday, May 19th, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

Esprit Digital, best known for their screen networks at London Underground, London Heathrow and Westfield (in London), have just completed their first installation of digital escalator panels (DEPs) for the Vienna Metro (Vienna U-Bahn). Using state-of-the-art cooling and air filtration technology, this 80+ 32” network will be sold by JCDecaux/Gewista. You may remember that Tim […]

Denmark’s Jyske Bank Live TV w/ @ScalaInc

Monday, May 19th, 2014

Andrew Neale

An innovative roll-out of Scala’s digital signage content management software has been completed as part of a live TV project at Denmark’s Jyske Bank. To support the launch of the new jyskebank.tv LIVE platform in October 2013, the bank turned to Scala to provide content management capabilities to the bank’s new channel. The jyskebank.tv LIVE […]