Toronto-based point of purchase printing specialist Artisan Complete, which
for the last few years has been building a business and reputation as one of
the leaders in content strategy and production for digital signage, has
pulled the plug on its Artisan Live group.
Mike Brown had been leading the group and left recently, and then on Thursday
the well-known face of the Live group, Stephen Ghigliotty and creative
director Kris Steeves were shown the door. The group had at least a
half-dozen people in it going back two or three years, and had won awards and
a lot of recognition for its work.
Both Stephen and Kris are great, talented guys and will be good picks for
anyone who wants to grab them, Stephen on strategy and Kris on creative.
It's too bad, as good, innovative wo... (more)
Digital Signage Journal on Ulitzer
Toronto, Montreal and the Kitchener-Waterloo region (home to BlackBerries)
have a lopsided amount of the activity going on in the digital signage
sector, but there's absolutely stuff shaking elsewhere.
If you subscribe to Google Alerts you see the daily release from PEI-based
ScreenScape --- nice product but enough with the carpet-bombing PR, guys.
Anyw... (more)
Microsoft Developer on Ulitzer
I have not seen the stores in person, but from a distance I really, really
like what Microsoft has done with its retail presence. Sure it looks vaguely
familiar to Apple's stores, but big whoop. The wall to wall screens are
brilliant.
However, I am now second-guessing whether I'd actually want to step inside a
store and be trampled by line-dancing geeks roc... (more)
Last year I stirred up a bit of a stink because the DIGI Awards were
announced at the Digital Signage Show and I could not get anyone to tell me
who won. For days.
I was actually at the thing this year and being old and stupid, forgot about
last year's fuss. But then I started to remember and asked a couple of guys
who were going to be writing about it if there was a press release or winn... (more)
Digital Signage Journal
There's a press release making the rounds today about a company called DDN -
who you will have never heard of - announcing plans to roll out with
convenience store giant 7-11.
The deal between the the world's biggest c-store operator and Digital Display
Networks, Inc. would create one of the bigger digital out of home networks,
anywhere, if it gets out to more tha... (more)
Dave Haynes is one of the most seasoned professionals in the still young digital signage industry, with deep experience in everything from business development and sales to technical operations, product development and start-up strategy and fundraising. These days he is extensively working on business development and consulting for an industry big on enthusiasm but still a lot short of experience and know-how.
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