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Key Systems, Software Solutions for DOOH Content

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 Primesight

Managing a multi-format, multi-location and multi-environment media inventory is not an easy task. The management becomes even more difficult when part of the company’s expansion strategy involves acquiring other companies with different media and different data management systems.

And that’s where Key Systems enters. From four locations across the world, the UK company has been developing and providing software exclusively for the Out of Home industry for over 25 years. Able to manage both traditional and digital signage, Key Systems works internationally with leading media owners and agencies.

For example, Primesight, one of the UK's leading outdoor advertising companies, owns a diverse portfolio of products suitable for different vertical markets. Its media includes both digital and traditional signage, in major roadside locations and popular leisure destinations such as private health clubs, cinema foyers and the UK's second largest underground network, the Glasgow Subway. The company provides a range of formats including six-sheet, billboards and transport, up to premium backlights and digital.

Primesight has a national presence covering more towns and districts in the UK than any other outdoor contractor. But that success created a jungle of hard-to-manage inventory.

To tame that jungle, Primesight uses three core products from Key Systems: Fusion, Digital Director and Proof of Posting.

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Hyper-Local Content For Your Screens

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BlueFox

BlueFox creates a new content category: Hyper-local content for your screens.

The proposed products include nearby entertainment options such as movie and event listings, local fuel prices, road traffic information, air travel status and local weather. All contents can be geographically restricted by the help of geo-localization and/or usage of zip-code (not only in Europe, but in many regions around the globe).

For France also local news and local Sports results as well as local newspaper reviews are available.

Hyper-local content in Digital Signage is a completely new offer that provides excellent opportunities for local marketing. Integrating those new local content offers into out-of-home on-screen communication brings multiple advantages. Network owners will finally be able to provide their public relevant and frequently updated information concerning their neighbourhood, and in the same time it enables them to reach out to advertising customers with exciting call-to-action offers that can only be created locally.

As for the majority of BlueFox content library, the hyper-local content is non-branded and offers an excellent base to place hyper-local advertising.

The content feeds are available with or without templates and can be displayed with any Digital-place-based system on the market.

Go Bluefox: Hyper-local Content

Some Hypotheses about Digital Signage Content

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 BlueFox

Digital signage content provider BlueFox conducted a 1-month running online poll open to the industry to take the temperature of the industry on questions they were asking.

Some of the results were expected and confirmed what they already had found out in previous interviews: but some of the points are new and they would like to know your opinion.

Do you agree with these insights or do you have a different vision?

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Feeding the Digital Signage Monster

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By Jeff Porter, Executive VP of Scala, Inc.

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So you're going ahead with your digital signage network. That's great. Now what?

How do you make sure that you don't go bankrupt in the process? What? I've already financed the hardware. Surely that's the hard part, right? Well that might account for the first 80% of the effort, but what about the "other 80%" of the job.

One of the often-misunderstood areas of digital signage is developing an effective content strategy to get the most out of your network. And although one could "simply make videos" for everything that you want to do, is that going to get you where you want to be, and how much will it cost to produce those videos on a regular basis?

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Scala Adds Background Music

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StreamAlot

Scala and StreamAlot (international provider of background-music solutions) announce a new collaboration.

StreamAlot’s background-music solution integrates with the Scala platform so Scala users can easily add background-music to their marketing mix, offering their audience both visual and auditory experience.

StreamAlot offers professional pre-programmed channels, but can also create tailor-made, branded “radio stations” for its customers, including advertisements and brand-tunes, to emphasize the customer’s company identity.

The low-cost, low-maintenance background-music solution of StreamAlot enables Scala users to unify sound and vision in one system, which is especially interesting in a retail setting.

StreamAlot is the streaming audio platform of in-store entertainment specialist The Music Marketeers. Clients range from Albert Heijn to De Bijenkorf, and from Praxis to Hello Kitty. The Music Marketeers has branches in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Hamburg and Warsaw. Additionally, they entered into partnerships with a number of European companies to service pan European (in retail and gastronomy, particularly) chains.

Go StreamAlot, and put your volume up because their website rocks!

Go Scala