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BroadSign Integrates Platform With Outdoor-Centric Key Systems

It’s slightly weird that with all the software companies out there chasing digital signage and digital out of home business – 100s of them globally – the two that dominate the ad network industry are a few blocks away from each other in Montreal. Ayuda Media Systems is in historic old Montreal, along the riverfront, and BroadSign is up the hill in the central business district. […]

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Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 6:00 AM

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Signage-Focused Crown Content Creative Shop Launches

Michael Tutton is well known in Toronto-area digital signage circles as the guy who, for many, many years, ran the digital display networks for Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation’s many gambling and hospitality properties. He left OLG late last year, recharged a little in the tropics, and has now launched his own signage-focused creative shop, called Crown Content. […]

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Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 9:57 AM

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16:9: OOH Research Firm Peoplecount Launches Audience Analytics Platform Built Around Smartphones Looking For WiFi

Toronto research firm Peoplecount, which has focused for many years on out of home and place-based media, has developed its own WiFi-driven location analytics platform, called Placescount. The system passively detects WiFi-enabled smartphones, delivering real-time metrics on dwell time, return trips and footpath analytics. […]

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Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 12:26 AM

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16:9: Digital Signage Drives Happier Holiday Travel At Toronto’s Pearson Airport

Traveling through airports during the Christmas holiday period can suck the joy out of just about anyone – between line-ups, delays, many more rookie travellers  than normal and general mayhem. So the people at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport put together an on-premise Happier Holidays campaign that uses temporary digital displays, among several tools, to inject some fun. […]

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Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 8:10 AM

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16:9: Montreal’s Arts District Adds More Projection-Mapped Buildings, Interactive Seesaws

The arts quarter of the amazing city of Montreal has been a visual treat for a few years, owing to various temporary and permanent installations that use lighting and projection. But that gets amped up starting tonight, with  a program that runs through the end of January. […]

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Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 9:18 AM

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Projects: Sport Chek Opens Pair Of Tech-Heavy Flagship Stores

Canadian retailer Sport Chek, which sells guess what, has opened a pair of tech-filled flagship stores in Yorkdale Shopping Centre and Square One Shopping Centre, two of the largest and busiest malls in Canada. They are about 25 minutes, to three days, away from each other, depending on greater Toronto traffic. […]

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Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:37 PM

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16:9: GM Canada Rolling Out Screens Across Auto Dealership Network

A well-planned and executed video can get a pile of marketing mileage for a company, or team of partner companies, and I suspect this piece about a digital signage deployment now rolling out in Canadian GM auto dealerships will do that nicely. […]

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Sun, Nov 15, 2015 at 10:22 AM

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Projects: A&W Canada Goes Digital With Menus

A&W Food Services of Canada Inc, or A&W as we’re going to call them, has announced it is going digital with its menus at the roughly 850 stores across the Frozen North. The rollout has already started, running on software and services, like creative, from Cineplex Digital Networks, aka EK3. […]

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Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 4:59 PM

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16:9: Newad Adds 1,500 Screens To Canadian Digital OOH Network

Montreal’s Newad has announced plans to grow into what would be one of the largest digital OOH networks in Canada, with a goal of 4,000 digital ad boards switched on by the end of 2016. That announcement comes several weeks after Newad acquired the majority of Zoom Media’s major networks in Canada. […]

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Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:58 AM

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And We’re Back

And we’re back. What’d I miss? I dutifully ignored all but a couple of email-based fires, so for all I know there were big mergers and massive product announcements. […]

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Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 8:39 AM

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16:9: How To Go Interactive In Digital Signage

GUEST POST: Mark Janke, DeviceWorx There’s a reason so many digital signs out there have fingerprints all over them – consumers expect that pretty much any screen they see and use will be interactive, just like their phones and tablets. But only a fraction of the digital signs now operating in the field are set up for interaction. […]

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Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 1:02 AM

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16:9: Toronto’s Union Station Ties Up Ads With LED

Anyone who commutes into Toronto by rail can tell you what a confused, awful mess its main rail station has been for many years, and fortunately the long-running effort to spruce it up is starting to be revealed. The new York Concourse area opened recently – and it doesn’t feel like a basement storage hall for an out of home ad company. […]

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Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:22 AM

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16:9: Photos from Pre-DSrupted DSF Networking Event

Here’s a stack of pix from the Digital Signage Federation event at Yorkdale shopping centre on Tuesday night, courtesy of Stephanie Gutnik of BroadSign. There were roughly 50 people, who were broken up into teams of 4 to go on a signage scavenger hunt in the ritzy mall – noting everything from the excellent to the “ugly babies. […]

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Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 10:43 AM

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DSrupted Is Just Two Sleeps Out – A Thank You To Sponsors

We’re just two sleeps out from DSrupted now, and at least three of my five speakers are hopping on planes tomorrow to get here – as will a pile of people coming from as far away as Phoenix and Atlanta. We’ve passed last year’s attendance number and, as a result, will have a pretty full house. […]

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Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 9:09 AM

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TUFF Subway Film Fest Set To Run On Toronto’s TTC Digital OOH Screens

The Toronto International Film Festival will soon take over the cinemas and chic hotels of downtown Toronto, and below the streets, the Toronto Urban Film Festival, aka TUFF, is about to take over screens in the subway system. […]

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Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 9:34 AM

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