With Halloween (my personal favorite holiday!) right around the corner, you may already be noticing winter holiday decorations and sales popping up in stores and online. This is of course not a new phenomenon by any means. For many, Halloween represents the beginning of the holiday sales season. However, I’m sure we’ve all had the ...
It’s not often that the events of a single day have a seismic impact on everything from transportation, to manufacturing, to OOH itself. However, such is the case of October 7th 1913, when Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line at his Highland Park factory, forever changing transportation as we know it. Ford’s Model T was introduced ...
How In-Store Audio Network Became Stingray Advertising Gary Seem: I started my career at News America Marketing, working on other in-store products and freestanding inserts (FSI’s) that were distributed in the Sunday newspaper. Eventually, we acquired In-Store Audio Network (ISAN) in 2003. Quite honestly, I think we got into this business almost too early. In ...
At times, it can hard to fathom the sheer amount of data that get created and transferred every day, and the memory capabilities needed to facilitate that data. Modern processing power and memory storage technologies have evolved rapidly over the last few decades, and it can be easy to lose sight of what was impossible ...
Some brands are so well established and recognized that their name has become synonymous with the product itself. For bandages, they’re often simply called Band-Aids. For flavored gelatin, Jell-o. And in the world of making copies, the brand name Xerox is used conversationally the same way, sometimes even being used to describe the action itself ...
In a time so strongly influenced by technology and computing power, computer and software bugs are by no means an uncommon occurrence. At their smallest, they can be annoying or disruptive to productivity. In some cases, the existence of a bug in software can lead to catastrophic outcomes. Take, for instance, the infamous Y2K Bug. ...
During last week’s fireside chat between Geopath Chairperson and Kinetic CEO Michael Lieberman and Geopath President Dylan Mabin, the two had a candid discussion around the new strategic vision and the future of the organization. The full conversion is available here in case you missed it. While the future vision of Geopath is of critical importance to ...
For many people in the US, Labor Day means different things. To some, it’s a time of year to take one last big trip with the family – summer camps have ended, and school is likely not yet back in session in some parts of the country. For others, it marks the end of the ...
Tell us about your experience in founding and expanding Vistar Media to be the programmatic DOOH exchange that it is today? When we founded Vistar ten years ago, OOH was undergoing a major digital transformation but still suffered from highly manual and inefficient ways of transacting media. With the capabilities available via programmatic, we saw ...
Today, August 26th, marks the start of the 150th (sesquicentennial) Colorado State Fair! This year’s fair runs from August 26th to September 5th, and is being held at the fairgrounds in Pueblo. Dating all the way back to 1872, the fair was initially held without funding from the local community or state as a whole. In 1886, ...
