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Ronin signs NEC as reseller; Remote Media to co-brand
The importance of hardware partners and the reseller channel to digital-signage system vendors was underlined this week by U.S. firm Wireless Ronin and Britain’s Remote Media.
Wireless Ronin has enlisted screen supplier NEC Display Solutions as a reseller, giving the software firm the chance of sales to NEC’s large accounts.
The two firms have long worked together on a series of installations, including the University of Akron, Ohio; 
Singapore mall deal takes MediaCorp out-of-home
Singapore’s MediaCorp is using digital out-of-home as its stepping stone into the outdoor market, via a contract to sell advertising on screens in the city state’s new ION Orchard mall.
The state-owned group – which began life nearly half a century ago as Singapore’s first radio station, and now has significant interests in TV, radio, print and online – will sell airtime on ION Orchard’s large LED screen and
OOH industry events are among the fastest-growing
Three trade shows covering the digital out-of-home sector have been named among the swiftest-growing in North America.
Exponation’s Digital Signage Expo, InfoComm International, and JD Events’ KioskCom Self Service Expo/The Digital Signage Show all made the Fastest 50 list compiled by Tradeshow Week magazine.
Two of the events have already passed this year – Digital Signage Expo, held in February in Las Vegas, and InfoComm International, which took
JCDecaux eyeing U.S. takeover potential
JCDecaux would acquire Clear Channel Outdoor or CBS Outdoor in order to move into the U.S. billboard market and claim the title of world’s biggest out-of-home company, according to its chief executive.
Jean-Francois Decaux told Dow Jones Newswires that his firm – whose limited presence in North America is a notable gap in its global reach – would consider a takeover of either of the U.S. firms if the
AirMedia builds network at new Beijing terminal
Chinese out-of-home specialist AirMedia Group is extending its hold on the country’s airports with the addition of 600 digital frames at Beijing Capital International Airport’s new Terminal 3.
AirMedia will deploy DT Research Intel-based WebDT SA3000 digital-signage appliances at the terminal, first by the baggage claims and then at the entrances to the departure halls.
The 82- and 108-inch units, remotely managed by AirMedia, will reach more than
Vet networks unite to lure international advertisers
Pharmaceutical advertising crosses borders with difficulty, thanks to the tight regulatory regimes in developed countries. But two digital out-of-home operators serving vets on opposite sides of the Atlantic believe their sector is an exception – and are joining forces to offer advertisers an international animal-health network.
Britain’s 21 Digital Signage – a reseller of Remote Media’s Signagelive system – and U.S. firm EmebaVet will together offer a footfall of
Vision Media Group becomes latest victim of crunch
British out-of-home operator Vision Media Group (VMG) last week suspended trading in its shares on London’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) as it prepared to go into administration.
VMG was the second out-of-home firm to disappear from the UK stock market in a matter of days. Ireland’s Adwalker, also AIM-traded, began the process of liquidation in the same week.
Administration involves the appointment of an administrator whose duty is
Bill Collins: “Danoo’s deal is a game-changer”
For the U.S. digital out-of-home media sector, Danoo’s acquisition of IdeaCast and its new collaboration with National CineMedia are watershed events, says Bill Collins of OOH research and consultancy firm DecisionPoint Media Insights.
This deal breaks new ground because, to date, National CineMedia (NCM) has been the most profitable large-scale innovator in the U.S. digital out-of-home sector. With this deal, NCM has found in Danoo a smaller, well-funded and
