DSrupted is a conference I am running – all day Sept. 16th in downtown Toronto – focused on the disruptive technology that is or will be changing the way digital signage gets done. Here’s the second post in a week-long series of reasons why – whether you are in or around Toronto, or further afield – you need to register for a seat. […]
Toronto-based mediaco Rouge Media Group has launched a network of ad displays built into charging stations for mobile devices and located in a wide variety of high traffic locations. A targeted 1,000 stations will be installed across North America, in places like restaurants, bars, college campuses, spas and beauty salons. […]
DSrupted is a conference I am running – all day Sept. 16th in downtown Toronto – focused on the disruptive technology that is or will be changing the way digital signage gets done. Here’s the first of a week-long series of reasons why – whether you are in or around Toronto, or further afield – you need to register for a seat. […]
I’ve written quite a bit lately about how data and particularly data visualization can and will play a large role in some future signage projects, and Mike Pell of Microsoft is coming to DSrupted in September to reinforce that, from the point of view of an expert. […]
Brad Parler has turned the typically bland business of corporate communications on its ears with a content programming model at his workplace – the online retailer Blinds.com – that actually makes people want to look, and keep looking. […]
The Source Opens Newly Designed Interactive Store at Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall (CNW Group/The Source) Canadian gadget retailer The Source – once known as Radio Shack up here – has opened its first experiential format store in an ongoing effort to “reinvent” the brand and shopping experience. […]
I’m very pleased to say the line-up is now fully set for DSrupted, which is set for Sept. 16th in Toronto. We’ve got a great line-up and a big highlight, I suspect, will be a talk by Martin Porter, Senior VP and Group Director for Posterscope, one of the biggest digital OOH agencies out there. […]
TransitScreen COO Ryan Croft with Deputy Mayor Denzil Minnan-Wong The City of Toronto has started a pilot with TransitScreen to try out a couple of real-time transportation displays in city-owned buildings. […]
If Google Trends is a real measure of activity and interest in digital signage, Canada is the hotbed country, but Dubai is the hotbed city at the moment. These are charts from the past 12 months. This graph shows web activity and you can see how the timeline kinda syncs up with ISE, DSE and the just-finished InfoComm. […]
Montreal-based VIF Télé, which runs and manages signage networks in the Quebec market, has expanded its service offering by acquiring the operations of a company that does SMS send-outs and tracking. Taking on SMS Looky allows VIF Télé to offer a system for managing the simultaneous sending, receiving and tracking of text messages to targeted, opted-in audiences. […]
InfoComm is just a few sleeps away and I suspect some of the tech who pull the booths together are already sweating it out down in Orlando. […]
Toronto’s Scotia Plaza is the head office building for one of the big five banks in Canada, and located on the underground walkway system that inter-connects most of the city’s downtown financial district. […]
Capital Networks, which is based in suburban Toronto (Markham-area), is looking for a new account executive to drive business development and manage relationships built around its Audience software and services. Position Account Executive, Digital Signage Job Description Capital Networks is recruiting an Account Executive, Digital Signage, reporting to the Vice President of Business Development. […]
The agenda is now pretty much rounded out for DSrupted, the annual conference that looks squarely at disruptive technologies in digital signage. I wanted a session on the Internet of Things, and needed it to be from someone who wasn’t going to just get up and talk about their device or process, and who could speak in an accessible engaging way about it all. […]
A pair of Canadian indoor advertising companies that have both competed for business and collaborated on projects for the last 20 years have traded network properties in a move that allows both to focus on well-defined verticals. Montreal-based Newad is buying the restaurant/bar, campus, fashion, business, media and golf networks from Zoom Media, also from Montreal. […]
