Digital signage is still a pretty young industry, so it’s interesting to come across a note that says one of the software companies active in the sector just turned 25. Capital Networks Limited was started in 1991 in suburban Toronto by Bill Trainor, who still runs the company. […]
Montreal-based media company Newad, which has a big digital out of home screen footprint through much of Canada, has announced a new spinoff company it says brings media targeting and a cost per view media placement model to digital OOH networks in this country. […]
American friends who’ve come up to Toronto for a visit or on business have tended to marvel at the sight of big buildings along major roadways that say simply: BEER STORE. […]
Donor walls are a big part of many hospitals – used to thank companies and individuals who support the organization’s work and facilities. For years, these walls were plaques or printed graphics, but lately, they’ve gone digital, and this has to be one of the bigger ones out there. […]
Here’s a nice example of simple, but visually interesting visualized data being done at Yorkdale, which is very arguably the ritziest shopping mall in Canada. Cineplex Digital Solutions works with the Toronto mall and its parent company, Oxford Properties, on the digital screens around the various shopping centres aOxford has across the country. […]
People who know me will be amused as hell by the notion of me attending a fashion show. But I have been to several in recent years, because I have a nephew who is at Ryerson’s fashion school in Toronto. The 4th year students have a major year-end show that attracts a lot of fashion industry people looking for new talent, so the event is seen and run as a big deal. […]
The Canadian version of the Grammys – called the JUNOS – goes this weekend in Calgary, and one of the features at the 2016 JUNO Gala Dinner & Awards will be a special podium fronted by a digital screen. Dubbed George – The Digital Podium, the set-up will be used to relay social media updates to the crowd as winners come up to accept awards. […]
The Toronto office of giant distributor Ingram Micro is running a Pro AV/Digital Signage vendor fair and what it calls a speed mixer (you drink fast???) on April 28th at the Toronto Congress Centre, which is up by the main airport. […]
Jibestream is a Toronto-based indoor mapping specialist company that has been working around the edges of the digital signage market for the past six or seven years, and some recent strategic shifts have really helped the company get marketplace traction, with triple-digit growth. […]
It’s very logical to think of Christie as a display hardware company, but if you stop and think about it, you realize it takes solid software to make those projectors and display cubes and LCDs and LEDs all run properly. The company has announced it has hired an ex-Blackberry guy to be its director of solutions software. […]
GUEST POST, Richard Fortin, ITESmedia Have you ever seen digital signage monitors that aren’t working, or are completely ineffective? With more than 11 years of experience in the installation of digital signage solutions, we have seen many situations that have often led to screens being turned off. […]
DX3 is a technology/digital marketing show and conference that has been running now in Toronto for a few years, and I went Thursday to see what’s up with the mostly Canadian companies that filled up an exhibit hall. It’s not an overly big show, but there’s always stuff that intrigues me. […]
Omnivex Corporation, Booth 2521 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? Unlike traditional digital signage software, the Omnivex digital signage platform is a single solution that adapts to unique and changing requirements of all types of customers. […]
GUEST POST: Tim Griffin, Userful We all understand the Wow Factor that comes from a beautiful, people-stopping video wall. But few people, even within the digital signage industry, understand what’s going on behind those bright, shiny screens. […]
Here’s what a mature Digital OOH ad network looks like: 350 screens covering 97% of the potential area. That’s what PATTISON Onestop is at after more than a decade in Toronto’s subway system – with screens on platforms and in the stations. […]
