Halifax Chooses ScreenScape To Drive Region-wide Place-based Media Efforts

Halifax, NS and Charlottetown, PE (PRWEB) August 12, 2014

Atlantic Canada’s biggest city has begun standardizing the delivery of place-based media across the region, using ScreenScape Networks for its publishing and management platform.

A diverse set of public and community venues across the Halifax Regional Municipality (or HRM) are now using ScreenScape’s cloud-based digital signage platform to run and share multimedia messaging content across sites.

ScreenScape, based in Charlottetown, PEI, was selected out of a bidding process the regional authority ran for a new visual communications platform within HRM-owned facilities, as well as at various community sites such as tourist attractions, cultural venues and recreation centres.

That tender called for a system that would enable participating venues around the Halifax Region to easily post digital messaging – such as event promotions and health bulletins – to screens connected by a cloud-based content management network.

The Neptune Theatre, the largest professional theatre company in eastern Canada, is among the many venues now plugged into HRM’s ScreenScape-driven network. “We’re a busy marketing team, and it’s imperative we use tools that bring our message to audiences clearly and repetitively with well-timed advertising. ScreenScape helps us do just that,” says Jennie King, Neptune’s Director of Sales & Marketing.

“What’s even better,” adds King, “is how we can now share our timely messages not only through the network of digital monitors in our venue, but with a broader community of ScreenScape users.”

ScreenScape’s network-centric approach allows venues of all descriptions to opt in and share their messages with other venues, and run selected messages from other venues on their own screens. That means a Halifax theatre company’s promotion for a production can find its way, without laborious coordination or additional cost, on to screens at nearby businesses and community centres.

“HRM’s use of place-based media is really a coming of age story for this new medium,” says Mark Hemphill, Founder and CEO of ScreenScape. “As more and more businesses in the region have turned on ScreenScape over the past couple of years, HRM recognized the value and efficiency of being part of this network, and really driving a program that can interoperate with other networks run by their community partners and other businesses.”

“Fragmentation is a big challenge with media, and that’s particularly true with place-based media,” adds Hemphill. “By deploying ScreenScape in its facilities, HRM has taken a leadership position in demonstrating the inherent value of a common platform. It’s an effort that taps into the promise of place-based media at a regional level.”

A harmonized messaging platform makes it possible to quickly and efficiently broadcast safety and health bulletin across a region, and increase local tourism marketing and economic development efforts at minimal new cost. “This is what a smart and connected community looks like,” says Hemphill. “It’s exciting to think of the places where this might go, as even more Halifax venues get on board.”







Federal Heath Sign LLC and ScreenScape Networks Inc. to Offer Joint Media Solution

Ocean Ranch, CA (PRWEB) April 03, 2014

Federal Heath Sign Company LLC today announced a joint initiative with ScreenScape Networks Inc. to offer its customers a full service, single source solution for place-based media.

The partnership combines the industry leading product and services of Federal Heath, needed to deploy the physical equipment across a national network of retail locations, with the internet-style networking and content sharing of ScreenScape, an emerging technology leader. Using ScreenScape’s software-as-a service platform, marketers can push their own digital promotions to screens mounted inside any number of venues with the simple click of a mouse.

“The potential for place-based media to lift sales and control mindshare at retail has created a strong demand for new customer engagement technologies,” said President and CEO of Federal Heath Kevin Stotmeister. “The road to success in this competitive new digital arena is all about choosing the right technology and the right partner to deliver an effective and consistent brand experience in the specific locations where buying decisions are made.”

Federal Heath has been steadily advancing into the digital signage area and now introduces Ingage Digital under its Ingage Solutions brand. Through its new relationship with ScreenScape, Federal Heath now has access to a unique software platform that can power multiple digital signage networks simultaneously.

“Federal Heath has more experience in deploying retail signage across a range of industries than any company in the United States” said ScreenScape CEO Mark Hemphill. “We know how important effective project management is to successful, scalable digital signage deployments. The greater the number of retail partners that participate, the more attractive the network becomes to its operators, its brand partners and a variety of different kinds of interested marketers.”

About ScreenScape Networks

ScreenScape Networks Inc is the first global platform for place-based media. Based on the software-as-a-service (SaaS) delivery model, ScreenScape enables its members to turn any Internet-connected computer or screen into a dynamic digital display. Together, members of ScreenScape form a massive community, which acts as a shared resource for content creation, cross promotion and advertising revenue. For more information, please visit http://ScreenScape.com.

About Federal Heath

Federal Heath Sign Company provides innovative, comprehensive and consistent solutions for sign product and maintenance requirements. The company supplies quality, electric signage to high profile companies in the retail, restaurant, hotel, finance, petroleum, automotive, corporate identification and gaming markets. Federal Heath has more than twenty offices nationwide, including four state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities. For more information about Federal Heath Sign Company, please visit us at http://www.federalheath.com.

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