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Cineplex Inc., Canada’s largest motion picture exhibitor with 163 theatres and 1,643 screens is holding a Cineplex Digital Solution Open House in their new Waterloo office tomorrow, October 15, 2014. Attendees will get to see the “dramatic and exciting evolution of digital signage with a focus on customer experience and experiential technologies”. The event will […]

The DailyDOOH Investor Conference takes place, once again, slap bang in the middle of New York Digital Signage Week on Wednesday October 22, 2014. This year, for the first time in its now ninth anniversary, the event is a one day event. To keynote the event, we welcome back an old friend, a true industry […]

Toronto-based Tim Hortons and Cineplex Digital Networks today announced a national launch plan for TimsTV, which will be one of the largest digital programming networks in the Canadian restaurant and retail sectors. TimsTV is an in-restaurant television channel showcasing Tim Hortons in a happy, creative, informative and entertaining manner. The network will be broadcast to […]

Cineplex Inc., Toronto, announced last Friday (Aug. 30/13) that it has completed the acquisition of EK3 Technologies Inc., the planned buy originally announced in July. The company, renamed and operating as Cineplex Digital Networks, will continue to be led by Nick Prigioniero as the company’s president. “We are pleased to welcome Cineplex Digital Networks to […]

It’s not very often that one gets to interview someone so upbeat and who has absorbed so much knowledge after only one week on the job, but that’s the case with Stephen Ghigliotty, new director of business development for Cineplex Digital Solutions in Canada. While the Solutions Group is officially based in Waterloo, Ontario, Ghigliotty […]

If you can forgive a mid-week observation being on a Thursday then please (friends, Romans, countrymen) lend me your ears… First then, Cineplex’s acquisition of EK3 (we have two stories up on this, here and here), which took everyone (including us for once) by surprise. As Sixteen:Nine’s Dave Haynes said in his report on the […]

We hadn’t been hearing anything about Cineplex Inc.’s digital signage business of late, and EK3 Technologies Inc. tends to work under the radar most of the time, so we have to admit that Cineplex’s announced offer to buy yesterday of digital signage company EK3 took us – and, I think, most people – by surprise. […]

Cineplex Inc. (TSX: CGX) announced Wednesday its offer to purchase EK3 Technologies Inc. an in-store digital merchandising provider, with operations in Canada, the United States and other countries. The initial purchase price is approximately $40 million, subject to certain adjustments to be made at closing, plus a reverse earn-out payment subject to an aggregate maximum […]

We’ve been asked to put together a list of the world’s ten largest networks and detail what software and screens run them. We will NOT allow non-networked networks, i.e. any systems that use sneakernet because by our definition they are NOT ‘networks’. We already have some ideas but we are happy to elicit responses as […]

This weekend, we talked to Nick Prigioniero, the president and CEO of EK3, whom we haven’t had the pleasure of meeting face-to-face yet, but with whom we had a lengthy phone chat during his current business tour of several European centres. We were particularly curious about EK3’s work with Tim Hortons, with which it has […]