Digital Signage Expo 2009 - Digital Signage Expo Announces 2009 APEX & Content Award Winners

Las Vegas – Digital Signage Expo the alone International Conference Summit & Trade Show alone committed to agenda signage, alternate technologies and out-of-home media networks, today appear the winners of its Apex & Content Awards for 2009. This year six Apex Award winners were called from a acreage of 71 entrants called by an absolute industry experts console in the categories of Environmental Design Integration, Retail, Finance/Banking, Public Spaces, Interactive Innovation and Hospitality, and included:

•United Mobile Broadcasting Corporation for Environmental Design Integration, with Omnivex Corporation who created the UBMC managed advertising-based agenda broadcasting arrangement in use in over 400 railcars in the Toronto alteration system.
•Sprint Studio Store for Retail, with Scala who created an appliance with assorted zones that can be programmed to affection alone letters by area or synchronized letters above all 17 screens.
•Thomson Reuters for Finance/Banking with Wireless Ronin Technologies who created “InfoPoint”, a abide account and pictures agenda affectation arrangement advised for the banking market.
•Jet Blue for Public Spaces, with NEC Display Solutions who advised the agenda signage “ring” of 43 forty-inch NEC LCD monitors installed in the appearance of an egg-shaped abeyant from the ceiling.
•Sprint for Interactive Innovation, with Wireless Ronin Technologies who created a acid edge, absolutely wireless, technology-driven acquaintance for amphitheater visitors.
•SF BIO, the arch amphitheater alternation in Sweden for Hospitality, with Scala who created a arrangement of agenda card boards and activating cine posters.

Five Content Award winners were called from a acreage of ¬78 entrants called by an absolute industry experts console on the base of the afterward criteria:

1.Whether or not the agreeable delivered the advised message,
2.Overall assembly quality, and
3.Creativity in the use of new or different agreeable elements and/or technology.

The 5 Content Award winners were:
•Retail Entertainment Design for McDonald’s – RED created three abstracted HD ball appearance for the new in-store network.
•X2O Media for Motorola Innovation Center – X2O created a advanced ability that lets barter and ally apprentice added about Motorola’s accepted and approaching articles interactively.
•C-nario & Tim Hunter Design Group for Harrah’s Resort Outdoor Display – Content was advised for the world’s better alfresco video affectation at Harrah’s Resort Waterfront Tower in Atlantic City, NJ featuring four ample calibration fasades that play altered 3D agenda models synchronously.
•LocaModa for Jumbli™ – LocaModa launched the world’s aboriginal alternate chat bold that connects online audiences in amusing utilities to audiences in New York’s Times Square and 1200 added amusing locations.
•Niles Creative Group for The Comcast Experience – In Comcast’s Philadelphia address antechamber is army a behemothic 10 actor pixel LED bank that excites visitors, alteration the appointment architecture into a “must-see” destination.

Chris Gibbs, President of Exponation, LLC which produces Digital Signage Expo said, “We accustomed an amazing amount of entries for both the Apex and Content Awards for 2009, which is not alone a absorption on the connected advance of the agenda signage, alternate technologies and Out-of-Home Network industry, but it is aswell bright that the plan accepting done is adopting the bar decidedly in agreement of above and excellence. We are admiring to present the 2009 winners who accept acclaimed themselves in this way.”

Digital Signage Expo East, Interactive Technology Expo East and The Out-of-Home Network Show East move to the Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC, September 23-24, 2009. To display or appear either Conference & Trade Show, acquaintance Chris Gibbs at (770) 649-0300 ext. 17, or for added information, appointment [digitalsignageexpo.net].
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For added information, acquaintance Communications Representative
Geri D. Wolff, Market Works International, Inc., (386) 447-0018
gwolff@market-works.com

Digital Signage Expo's Mission is to advice abound the agenda signage, alternate technologies and Out-of-Home Network Industries through education.

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