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Industry veteran Maxwell (Max) Kopsho has joined Christie as executive vice president of business development. There he will be responsible for supporting the commercialisation and sales of Christie’s advanced video processing and networkable content distribution solutions. He will join Christie’s executive leadership working alongside EVP Clark Williams to focus on driving business and building key […]

Christie this week announced its acquisition of assets from Brass Roots Technologies LLC, an Allen, Texas-based technology innovation company specialising in consulting and the engineering design of advanced optics and electronics for high-performance display and imaging systems. Zoran Veselic, president and chief technology officer, Christie told us “The purchase of Brass Roots Technologies’ assets will […]

GroupM, WPP’s media investment group, today announces the findings of the Sightline Global Digital Out-of-Homesurvey on perceptions of digital out-of-home advertising, which reveals half of global audiences who have seen DOOH ads say they encouraged them to make a purchase ‘there and then.’ The study, which was commissioned on behalf of Xaxis and Kinetic, also […]

Christie has announced Hideaki Onishi as its new chairman and CEO. With more than 30 years of management experience in various positions within the Ushio, Inc. group (parent company of Christie) we understand that he will begin his role immediately. He replaces Kazuhisa Kamiyama, who has completed his tenure with Christie and is returning to […]

Hivestack, the world’s largest, independent, programmatic digital out of home (DOOH) #AdTECH company has been selected as programmatic digital out of home (DOOH) partner in Hong Kong by several leading global advertising and media companies including GroupM, Xaxis, Publicis, Havas and dentsu International Hong Kong. Troy Yang, Managing Director of Hivestack, North Asia told us […]

InfoComm regular Christie today issued a statement on Twitter “Today we withdrew our participation in #InfoComm21, amidst the rising transmission of the Delta variant. This is difficult – we love meeting with customers and partners in-person, but we’ve prioritized health above all else. We hope to see you at #InfoComm22 #AVtweeps #ProAV”

For the 13th consecutive year Christie has announced its partnership with the Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF), with its cinema projection systems once again deployed for screening the SIFF’s opening and closing films. This year’s festival, themed ‘The Film Art of Centennial Glory on a Ceaseless Journey’ runs June 11-20. More than 400 films from […]

Several bits of news in today; Two industry pro’s come out of retirement to setup a new consulting firm and 1,155 day book tour finally ends, beats records, allowing third consultant (said author) to join what is surely an industry consultancy dream team. We hear that this new consultancy may well be modelled on the […]

They don’t stay consultants for long do they? As soon as there’s sight of a steady pay packet, a car or pension plan they are back on the whatever-is-the-opposite-to-entrepreneur-is! There is an element of risk and fear in consultancy that scares some who have been used to a steady pay packet each month whereas others […]

Imperative Group’s Mr Chris Heap has done a good job in putting together the Education Programme for this year’s #ScreenmediaExpo. There are the usual ‘freeloaders’ who will stick their hand up at the merest hint of a speaking opportunity but on the whole over the two days and two theatres there is probably enough to […]