Archive for April, 2014

Broadcasting Sense w/ @Laylaloves @NECShowcase

Monday, April 28th, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

As the AV community gathers in London for the NEC Showcase and London Digital Signage Week in a few weeks’ time, this presents an excellent opportunity to highlight the work of Sense. and gear up the fundraising! The AV industry’s nominated charity, Sense, is the leading national charity that supports and campaigns for children and […]

Tom McGowan Joins Coloredge

Monday, April 28th, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

News reaches us that ‘the’ veteran industry sign guy (and all round Mr Nice Guy to boot) Tom McGowan has left FWi. We understand that he left on good terms and has engaged with Coloredge (nee Merisel). To some, that may look like he has left our industry to go to ‘print’ but that’s not […]

#2014SignExpo Samsung, Samsung Everywhere

Monday, April 28th, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

As it seems to do at all the big shows that we attend, Samsung had a number of partners on its booth at #2014SignExpo. One of them that we spoke to was Long Beach, California-based Insteo‘s Jim Nista, CEO and creative director, who was keen on Samsung SSP (smart Signage Platform) and wanted to show […]

#2014SignExpo Vantage LED Working With SM Infinity

Monday, April 28th, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

At #2014SignExpo we had a quick chat with Paul Martin, director of marketing at Vantage LED, Corona, California, and discovered that he’s also the project director and co-founder of SignVine, (digital signs for non-profits via crowd funding) that we wrote about earlier this month. Martin told us that Vantage has been working since Nov., 2012, […]

Sam McCauley TV by @iDklic

Monday, April 28th, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

Shopper Marketing Specialists Visualise and Digital Media Specialists iDklic announced a few weeks ago the imminent rollout of a digital signage network created specifically for the pharmacy market. Sam McCauley TV, based on iDklic’s PharmaSeen TV concept, will be implemented throughout the Sam McCauley Chemists Group and will provide a wealth of benefits to the […]

Down In The Park w/ A Friend Called PlayNetwork

Sunday, April 27th, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

When any big business re-evaluates its (incumbent) use of digital signage software, you know in our fragile digital signage software eco-system that vendors may die as a result. Comqi, Park Media and Scala all have bits of business with PlayNetwork so news that reached us a few weeks ago during the OAAA/TAB event that PlayNetwork are […]

Command & Control, The @RMGNetworks’ Way

Sunday, April 27th, 2014

Alex Hughes

Together with RMG Networks we have come up with some very innovative ways in which to visualise data and we’ve been putting them into practise in their new Executive Briefing Centre which opens in Dallas very shortly. Shown above is their Command & Control showing (from left to right) Dallas, London and Singapore. I will […]

Final #2014SignExpo Twitter Analysis

Sunday, April 27th, 2014

Andrew Neale

Here’s our final #2014SignExpo twitter analysis. Hashtag analysis – last 26 days No. of Tweets: 2,053 No. of Twitter impressions: 4,905,968 No. of Twitter users who tweeted: 330 No. of Twitter users reached: 351,083 Top Ten: No Name No of Tweets 1 @ISAPrez 207 2 @isasignexpo 170 3 @PrintMediaCentr 86 4 @CPriceGASC 77 5 @ledbill12 72 […]

#2014SignExpo @BrandMarketers Clothing Range

Saturday, April 26th, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Brand Marketers, a non traditional advertising and experiential marketing agency were at #2014SignExpo with this… Owner Adam Hollander told us that he’d be bringing this to the UK shortly.

#2014SignExpo Ingram Micro Stresses Security Aspect

Saturday, April 26th, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Keven Yue, senior manager of business development at Ingram Micro, has an idea: “Why not have a show that combines both digital signage and physical security?” In thinking about it, and running the idea by a couple of digital signage industry execs, it could be an idea that could help a show like Digital Signage […]