Capital Networks Limited has been a mixer sponsor for many, many years, and has also been a 16:9 sponsoring advertiser for a long, long time. The Toronto-area company was started in 1991 in by Bill Trainor, who still runs Capital, though he’s moved up north to a custom-built place on a golf course, across the road from Lake Simcoe. […]
The Canadian out of home media firm PATTISON Outdoor and the agency Havas have teamed up on a #GirlPowered campaign for the Canadian Women’s Foundation that gives girls the opportunity to create and share positive, empowering messages on digital outdoor screens across Canada. […]
DSE BOOTH PREVIEWS Omnivex Corporation DSE Booth Number – 410 Why do people going to DSE need to put your company on their Must See list of booths? At DSE 2017 Omnivex will be launching its next generation digital communications platform – Omnivex Ink. Omnivex Ink will transform the way organizations communicate – digitally. […]
Via Urban Toronto The city of Toronto is going down the interesting path of being a major media partner in the city’s busiest public gathering point – Yonge-Dundas Square. A proposed $3.8-million deal for Outfront Media to put in a series of large format LED screens in the square has cleared the city mayor’s executive committee, but is still subject to more review. […]
There’s always some other place with more, but in my travels, I’ve just come back from the most digital signage-rich store I’ve seen to date. The Best Buy at Heartland Town Centre in Mississauga, a city part of the greater Toronto metropolis, has screens everywhere. I wouldn’t say it was incredibly well done. […]
Phone charger stations with screens on top are nothing new, but an Ottawa digital signage company has come up with a clever spin on the set-up. To stow and charge your phone, you slip your phone in a bay, plug in and scan your fingerprint. The Ottawa-based company has two units installed earlier this month at a pair of Sears Canada stores. […]
I’m still at it today and tomorrow, and maybe even Friday – but my guess is a lot of industry people are already in holiday mode, or imminently so. With that in mind, I wanted to get a note out while there are still people at their desks, and reasonably sober. […]
This deserves a big audience – the annual festive season video from the folks at signage solutions provider Telecine in Montreal, sent out this afternoon in an email blast. Your host is Telecine owner James Fine. Very well done! […]
I love this quote in the Toronto Star, from the head of Retail Strategy for Accenture in Canada: “(We’re going to be) moving away from some of the gimmicky and gadgetry that we’ve seen until now, like digital screens you can interact with but they don’t really add to the experience,” said Kelly Askew. Yeah. Exactly. […]
Uber-Train-Train-Uber got me to and from Toronto yesterday to catch the Digital Signage Expo DSE Huddle mixer held at the Hard Rock Cafe off Yonge Dundas Square. DSE Show Director Andrea Varrone was up from Atlanta to host the event and she said about 100 people registered. Not all of them showed, but there was a big crowd for the event. […]
A reminder for locals that Andrea Varrone, who runs Digital Signage Expo, is up in Toronto today and hosting a mixer for the digital signage crowd. The DSE Huddle runs from 5:30-7:30 p.m. in the Rocker Room of the Hard Rock Café, which overlooks Yonge Dundas Square, a more diminutive version of Times Square. […]
Software and display companies get a lot of attention in the digital signage industry, but projects don’t happen without the gear that holds screens in place and keeps them protected. I travelled up to St. […]
Here’s a look inside one of pro hockey’s most famed venues, the Bell Centre in Montreal – home to the Montreal Canadiens. […]
Google has set up Google Shops in Best Buy stores in four Canadian cities, as a means of enabling consumers to get their mitts on hardware sold mostly online. Google Canada’s “shop within a shop” spaces were officially opened Friday in the Toronto area, Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. […]
Here’s more information on that DSE Huddle aka mixer set for Dec. 6th in Toronto. The event will run from 5:30-7:30 p.m. […]
