Friday, the Chicago Housing Authority building at 1414 N. Damen received their RedPost/Sign running Bus Tracker:
Several of the residents I chatted with were excited — they use the bus a lot and hate waiting out in the cold.
And another article went up today on the Wicker Park Bucktown project, this one in the South Bend Tribune Business Weekly. A quote from me:
“People live and work in neighborhoods,” he says. “All big cities are very neighborhood-driven. All these neighborhoods have all these events and stores and things going on that are going on [...]
I missed this one earlier, but we made it into the Indiana Economic Digest.
Right before Christmas we installed two new locations. Here are some pics. First is Challengers Comics:
And second is Niche/City Soles:
I’ve been reading several of MediaPost’s e-newsletters for about a year and a half now, my favorite being their Online Media Daily – Section 2, and to my surprise this just popped into my inbox, courtesy of Google Alerts:
Two of the sweet spots for digital out-of-home advertising are convenience and distraction — using technology to [...]
We made it into Digital Signage Today and Digital Signage Expo 2010’s website.
UPDATED: We’re also on Page 7 of the Dec 14 issue of the RedEye, Chicago’s free daily.
Here’s a bunch o’ links, first, results from our press release:
First, one of our local papers, The Elkhart Truth
DailyDOOH (blog)
Digital Signage Universe (our release)
SVN – The Briefing Room (our release)
OpenPR (our release)
DigitalSignage.com
Second, more coverage (in addition to what I linked to before) from the Chicago Media and Blogs (as if they’re not Media):
MSNBC
NBC
Capitol Fax (read [...]
This morning, we sent out our RedPost/WPB press release. We’ll see who picks it up…it’s an interesting story, although it may be a bit too close to Christmas to get much traction. Here’s the release:
WPB and RedPost launch first-of-its-kind digital sign pilot program in Chicago
Chicago, Ill. — Today, WPB and RedPost announced [...]
Last night, we made the Chicago evening news and were mentioned in Gaper’s Block. RedPost’s first time in a primary market evening news broadcast. Sweet!
They don’t mention us by name, but they’re talking about us:
Commuters stopping at the Red Hen Bread bakery on North Milwaukee Avenue in Bucktown can also check to see when the next CTA bus will pull up at the corner, without leaving the cinnamon-toasty warmth of the store.
Estimated bus-arrival times sent directly from the Chicago Transit Authority’s Bus Tracker [...]