In an announcement this evening I would describe as, ummm, quirky … the Digital Signage Federation (DSF) has rather grandly named Digital Signage Expo (DSE) its official trade show, and in turn the DSF is the exclusive trade association sponsor of DSE, the industry’s largest annual gathering. The agreement is described as historic, but I’d venture [...] Read More

The Screen USA is holding another one of its morning breakfast briefings in New York later this month, this one focused on creative. The event is being held in cooperation with the global creative agency Ogilvy & Mather – with a morning briefing to be held at Ogilvy’s Manhattan headquarters on Tuesday the 21st, followed by [...] Read More

This has not been confirmed but DailyDOOH spoke to Susan Danaher in her new office at the Digital Place-Based Advertising Association offices today. She is the new president, replacing Suzanne Laforgia who left to joing RMG Networks. Danaher sat on the old OVAB board for a couple of years when she was president of Reactrix. [...] Read More

This was smart. NEC Displays announced today it has hired on Graeme Spicer to head the effort to spread the understanding and adoption of its VUKUNET digital signage platform, which includes the universal advertising platform and a free content management suite. Graeme let me know about this a few weeks ago and he’s actually be [...] Read More

When I get asked … and it happens fairly regularly … what’s holding back this sector, I have a quick, very easy answer. Education. Everybody could stand to learn a lot more about the opportunities and challenges, and nuts and bolts of this thing. Just about every day I see examples of people who really [...] Read More

Rishi Shah, the bright young guy who founded and runs Chicago-based ContextMedia, sent a note around looking for some help in getting the word out that his firm is hiring. ContextMedia is preparing to launch a major growth campaign to acquire new physician offices and I’d like to ask for your help as we recruit [...] Read More