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16:9: Managed Services Firm Velocity Acquires Grocery-Based DOOH Network Impax Media

The managed services firm Velocity has gone into one of the vertical markets it serves by acquiring the small, grocery-focused Digital OOH ad network Impax Media. A Montreal company that bubbled up about five years ago, Impax does in-store advertising to shoppers at the checkout aisles at 49 grocery stores in the New York City area. […]

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Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 8:45 AM

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Montreal’s Vif Communication Building Own Digital Signage Screen And Sanitizer Combo

In the last few weeks, I have noticed several companies in a variety of countries – from Israel to here in Canada – reading the marketplace and starting to market screens that are paired with a hand sanitizer dispenser. I don’t know if it is one or several manufacturers, but the design seems to have a lot of takers. […]

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Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 8:43 AM

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Telecine Lights Up Its Historic Building’s Windows To Thank Essential Workers

The folks at Montreal’s Telecine use their historic office building just east of downtown for a bunch of things – workspace, home (for owner James Fine) and party space, on the roof. They also use the windows for projection, notably during the Christmas season. Now the techs have fired up the projectors to send a message to caregivers and others working in the midst of the pandemic. […]

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Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:16 PM

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Telecine Launches Animated Video Learning Series – Called Digitalsignage.tips

The team at Montreal digital signage solutions company Telecine does a lot of serious work for some big name business clients, but it is a lot more playful when it comes to its own marketing. For many years, James Fine and his team have put together loopy Christmas videos that it then shares out to its clients and the ecosystem. My fave remains the Pantenna. […]

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Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 12:03 PM

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16:9: VuWall Makes Video Wall Control Software Free For COVID-19 Responders

Montreal-based video wall control software firm VuWall has offered up its VuWall2 solution as a free download to community, government and other organizations that need to create big visual dashboards to stay on top of pandemic response measures. As the current situation caused by COVID-19 remains fluid, managing the overflow of information has become a complex challenge. […]

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Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 10:56 AM

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Montreal’s FinTech Station Uses Digital Signage Network To Inform Tenants, Guests

This is a good example of a modest, but nicely executed workplace communications network in a two-storey Montreal office space. It is at Montreal FinTech Station, a startup-y, incubator space for companies doing financial technologies. The solution – both digital signage and targeted audio – was put in by Montreal-based iGotcha Media. […]

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Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 9:52 AM

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16:9: Montreal’s Integrated Health Systems Does Waiting Room Signage Reset

This is one of the screens running for the City of Montreal’s Integrated University Health and Social Services – four care organizations spread out across 43 locations. The digital signage network was described as ailing, and Montreal solutions firm VIF Tele won a bid to revamp and reimagine it, working with Philips for displays. […]

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Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 1:52 PM

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16:9: The Ever-Loopy Telecine Holiday Video Is Out

The Montreal solutions provider Telecine has once again pushed out a loopy video just in time for the holidays – though this one is half new material, half highlight reel from past versions. The premise this time around is that the company is under audit from Revenue Canada for dubious expense claims related to producing these spots (not that far-fetched). […]

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Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 1:20 PM

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16:9: How Smartpixel’s Goggles-free VR Improves Real Estate Sales

If you have ever gone through the process of looking for a condo or house in a development that’s still just a hole in the ground or an empty field, you’ve probably spent time in a presentation center looking over drawings, plans and maybe even miniature models of the development. […]

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Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 11:14 PM

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16:9: Low Rez LEDs Make Big Visual Impact At Revitalized Montreal Office Block

I think there is pretty widespread affection for the idea of energizing a building lobby with an LED-filled feature wall, but equally widespread horror at the cost of doing that. Some of the projects that have been done to date – like the work in the lobbies of Salesforce and Netflix – are amazing visually, but would have cost some serious, serious coin. […]

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Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 6:28 AM

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The Best Digital Signage Mixer You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Telecine has been doing digital signage content and technology solutions for corporate clients forever – operating out of one of the 1,000s of beautiful old stone buildings that litter the older stretches of Montreal. […]

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Tue, Jul 9, 2019 at 9:56 AM

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16:9: Broadsign CEO Burr Smith Provides Thinking And Back-Story Behind Recent M&A Moves

I’m kinda breaking my own podcast rule here by interviewing someone for a second time, but Burr Smith has been a busy guy lately – buying companies and fighting patent trolls. I spoke with the CEO and owner of BroadSign a couple of years ago, but it was more than time for an update chat given recent events. […]

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Wed, Jun 5, 2019 at 9:10 AM

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16:9: DOOH Network NewAd Acquired By Canadian Telecoms And Media Giant Bell

Montreal-based out of home media company NewAd has been acquired by Bell Media, the Canadian telecoms and media conglomerate. NewAd built its business putting out of home posters in bars and restaurants, competing across Canada with another Montreal company, Zoom. […]

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Sun, May 5, 2019 at 10:22 PM

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From The Podcast Archive: Moment Factory’s Creative Director On Doing Big Visual Projects Around The Globe

My ability to record podcasts went sideways 2-3 weeks ago, with some weird glitch that saw my online recording platform just flat refusing to acknowledge I had a microphone plugged in. Very puzzling, but after lots of trial and error and poking around, I found the issue. Check a box and a couple of weeks of endless frustration just disappeared. […]

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Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 11:02 PM

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16:9: Big LED Fail At Montreal’s Trudeau Airport

From a reader – This is a very large LED display board at international arrivals at Montreal’s main airport, shot this weekend. I THINK this is a media company’s display, and not the airport’s. […]

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Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 10:54 AM

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