Nick Prigioniero, the longtime head of a company that started as EK3 and became Cineplex Digital Media through acquisition, is stepping down in April. […]
Astral, one of Canada’s larger OOH and digital OOH media players, has expanded its relationship with Montreal’s Ayuda Systems – launching a programmatic advertising solution run by Ayuda spin-off Hivestack. […]
Here’s a simple but effective example of using data to handle what would otherwise by a nightmare job is done by one person running a digital signage network. The Quebec supermarket chain IGA is running a daily contest at its roughly 300 stores that gives away prizes and announces the winner on screens inside the stores, with the winners local to each store. […]
The big digital media tower outside of Toronto Eaton Centre is getting a little cosmetic work done – an implant, basically – to make it the largest digital OOH display in Canada. […]
This is the new Air Jordan location on Toronto’s Yonge Street – a three-level retail space that uses fine-pitch LED video walls and window projections. The store has an underground kids-only concourse and an upper athletic training facility, as well as a main, street-level retail space. […]
Toronto-area solutions provider L Squared Digital Signage appears to have the OK now to talk about a deal to supply a digital signage program for Canada Post Corporation. The contract was awarded earlier this year and has since deployed to more than 400 retail locations across Canada, including new Canada Post concept stores. […]
Marco Nalli of Samsung invited a bunch of people in architectural/design/consulting up to the company’s Canadian head office in suburban Toronto on Wednesday for a bit of a lunch and learn, to talk about current digital signage product and the North America product roadmap. […]
On the immediate heels of Diversified announcing its acquisition yesterday of MCW, rival integrator AVI-SPL announced this morning its acquisition of one of the largest pro AV integrators in Canada, Sharp’s Audio Visual. […]
This isn’t a project that’s large in terms of pixels or screen counts; its impact is in its scale. The Canadian city of Sudbury is about a four-hour drive north of Toronto. With a population a little less than Jackson, Mississippi, it is the 7th largest municipality by area in Canada. […]
Canadian vacation travel company Sunwing has opened a pop-up store in one of Canada’s busiest and ritziest shopping malls, using big visuals and a lot of technology to get shoppers at Toronto’s Yorkdale Mall thinking about booking a flight to the tropics for when the snow flies. […]
The guys at Screenscape in beautiful little Charlottetown, PEI got some good marketing news this week – being named among the fastest-growing companies in Canada by Canadian Business magazine. […]
A lot of companies run by creatives and software developers have found their way into the digital signage business on the backs of projects they delivered, but I wouldn’t really see that happening with a company that’s all about online payments. […]
Toront0-based software startup Neuranet has released the 2nd generation of its HTML5-based responsive ad-building software, called Flexitive 2.0. The cloud-based platform lets creatives build animated, video-supported ad spots that adapt to unlimited sizes, across any device, operating system, app or browser. […]
I don’t have a formal crowd count, but my sense is there had to be at least 100 people – possibly more – at last night’s Digital Signage Federation mixer in downtown Toronto. The event was at a new place right by the Rogers Centre (where the Blue Jays play) called The Rec Room. […]
Toronto-based Cineplex Digital Media is working Toys “R” Us on a new digital store concept that blends digital endcaps, interactive look-up screens and point of sale kiosks. The concept is being tested at a store in the greater Vancouver area. […]
