Pittsfield Community Television Serves Up Local Programming with Tightrope

Pittsfield Community Television Serves Up Local Programming with Tightrope
“We started with the basic Tightrope PEG channel configuration, using Cablecast for our main server and automation platform, and the Carousel digital signage system for bulletin boards. We later added downstream keying, VOD, live streaming, …
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Five trends in digital notice boards in condos
As the industry has overcome many of these initial challenges, the trend of condo boards swapping out cork bulletin boards for sleeker digital signage has become firmly entrenched. This is no doubt a product of the fact that establishing good …
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Drones and Spyware: The Bizarre Tale of a Brutal Kidnapping
It's a rare kidnapping-for-ransom scheme that availed itself fully of the riches of the Internet age, providing a glimpse of a future where brutal, physical crime and its digital analog merge into one. FBI court filings unsealed last week showed how …
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Cannes Lions: will advertising ever again be about the people it serves?

Cannes Lions: will advertising ever again be about the people it serves?
My hunch is that over the next five to 10 years elements of craft, care, co-creation and community will put people back into the advertising picture, and advertising will regain some humanity. Perhaps a small but significant sign of that from this year …
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Facebook Tests Auto-Filling Marketing Forms With People's Profile Info
Facebook is starting to test a new mobile ad format called "lead ads" that marketers can use to ask people to sign up for email newsletters or a request a call for a price estimate. Facebook began testing these new ads in February and is running them …
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Programmatic accounts for two thirds of mobile ad sales, says IAB
Indeed, nearly one fifth (18 per cent) of video ads are now traded programmatically. “Programmatic's role in digital ad buying has grown from virtually zero to nearly half of all transactions in just five years,” says Tim Elkington, chief strategy …
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