DOmedia Selected by AlwaysOn as an OnMedia Top 100 Winner

Recognized for creating new opportunities in marketing, branding, advertising, and publishing. 

Columbus, Ohio, March 11th, 2013 ‘€“ DOmedia, the most comprehensive database and toolset for advertising media, announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia Top 100 winners.  Inclusion in the OnMedia 100 signifies leadership amongst its peers and game-changing approaches and technologies that are likely to disrupt existing markets and entrenched players. DOmedia was specially selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and industry experts spanning the globe based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.

DOmedia and the OnMedia Top 100 Companies will be honored at AlwaysOn’s OnMedia NYC event on March 18th, 2013, at Convene (formerly Sentry Centers) in New York City.

This two-day executive event features CEO presentations and high-level debates on which forces are disrupting user behavior and creating new opportunities in the marketing, branding, advertising, and public relations industries.

‘€œThis year’s OnMedia 100 is looking beyond dominating the advertising and public relations sectors.  These disruptors are taking on e-commerce with a bright, new outlook.  With the massive adoption of smartphone and tablet technology, the world of retail and commerce is embracing new ways to connect consumers with the products they desire.  Micro payments, social commerce, and tap-and-pay are just some of the new payment paradigms that are ripping apart the established norm, both in stores and on the Web’€”and the OnMedia 100 companies are leading the charge.’€ says Tony Perkins, founder and editor of AlwaysOn. ‘€œThis year’s OnMedia 100 winners are opening up new sources of commerce, especially in the fashion industry, bringing new ways for designers and retailers to connect with their target audiences.  Back-end data evolution further helps to put the best products into the hands of the people trying to discover them.  With the number of innovative ideas on the horizon, the digital media marketplace is poised to experience even more growth and positive disruption during the next year.’€

The OnMedia 100 winners were selected from among hundreds of other technology companies nominated by investors, bankers, journalists, and industry insiders.  The AlwaysOn editorial team conducted a rigorous three-month selection process to finalize the 2013 list.

A full list of all the OnMedia Top 100 winners can be found on the AlwaysOn website at:

http://www.aonetwork.com/AOStory/Announcing-2013-OnMedia-100-Top-Private-Companies

About DOmedia

DOmedia’s RFP application help users do media better.  Become faster ‘€“ save time and cost through the media buying process; smarter ‘€“ manage data and analytics to gain a historical knowledge; and better ‘€“ grow revenues and profits for your business. Through our online marketplace, media providers create enhanced media profiles for their properties. In turn, advertisers & agencies can use our extensive & comprehensive database of media properties to find new ideas, plan & even build the perfect out-of-home campaign.

About AlwaysOn

AlwaysOn is the leading business media brand networking the Global Silicon Valley. AlwaysOn helped ignite the social media revolution in early 2003 when it launched the AlwaysOn network. In 2004, it became the first media brand to socially network its online readers and event attendees. AlwaysOn’s preeminent executive event series includes the Silicon Valley Innovation Summit, OnMedia, OnHollywood, IMPACT Venture Summit Mid-Atlantic, Venture Summit East, OnDemand, Venture Summit Silicon Valley, OnMobile, AlwaysOn Australia, and GoingGreen Silicon Valley. The AlwaysOn network and live event series continue to lead the industry by empowering its readers, event participants, sponsors, and advertisers like no other media brand.


Carroll Media Services, Inc in the DOmedia Spotlight

Carroll Media ServicesCarroll Media Develops First Performance System for Outdoor Advertising

Metrics based on TAB OOH Ratings provide actual campaign delivery

Carroll Media Services Inc (CMS), an independent OOH media auditing, tracking and research company, launched OutdoorAdTrak Posting Analysis, the first program to provide performance ratings for outdoor advertising. Using TAB’s Out of Home Ratings data as its base, the new program is a value-added service for all CMS clients who retain OutdoorAdTrak field audit services.

OutdoorAdLogoOutdoorAdTrak Posting Analysis is a CMS proprietary program that provides an audience delivery rating/index for the Out-of-Home media buying similar to what advertisers get with other media and works with any OOH program that has impressions as a base for it’s currency. Reach and frequency is also computed.

The program uses real performance attributes recorded in the field by CMS agents to assess to what degree purchased impressions should be adjusted. Aspects such as proper illumination, on-time posting, visibility standards, and overrides are among considerations that factor into a final performance metric.

Glenn CarrollCEO Glenn Carroll noted: “Now advertisers have a solid performance index for OOH just as they have had for other advertising media, which will enable them to track actual (vs. purchased) CPMs & Reach/ Frequencies, determine campaign ROI and serve as a benchmark for future planning.”

OutdoorAdTrak Posting Analysis is an extension of Carroll Media’s 20 year old pre-ride and post-buy audit services conducted for some of the largest OOH advertisers, agencies, and media buying firms. The program also addresses the critical need for accountability as defined within OAAA’s industry branding initiative developed earlier this year, and takes application of TAB’s groundbreaking OOH Ratings from merely planning metrics to actual post buy performance measures.

Ray Rotolo , COO, PosterscopeUSA agrees: “OutdoorAdTrak Posting Analysis is another positive step in OOH’s evolution toward becoming a truly measurable and accountable medium on par with TV, print, etc. It brings a dose of “reality” into performance and ROI measurement.”

And unlike other media that rely on small sample sizes to determine ratings, CMS typically audits from 50-100% of a client’s OOH campaign so the results are both more reliable and expandable. Also, advertisers using OOH media that is not TAB audited can utilize the OutdoorAdTrak Posting Analysis program as long as impressions are the basis for determining audience estimates and rates.

Established in 1993, Carroll Media Services Inc. provides third party audits, quality control, and custom research in the Outdoor Advertising, Promotions, and In-Store, Retail and Movie industries. With 140 field representatives stationed throughout US and Canada, CMS also maintains the outdoor’s industry’s largest image database (OutdoorAdVault) and serves a diverse roster of blue chip companies.

Taking Outdoor Advertising Accountability to the Next Level

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Top 3 Sales Trends for 2013

Sales Trends1. Instant Access to Solutions
In 2013 the Web will make salespeople more, not less important. Buyers are turning to the Internet to find solutions. What this phenomenon has done is created a new set of expectations amongst customers. Today, advertisers expect more from salespeople. They expect sales reps to be experts of their business and act as managers protecting their interests within the sales organization. Those salespeople and companies that are not easily accessible or take too long to respond won’t have a chance. Have your information readily available for buyers to access on the DOmedia website. Don’t make them chase you down for information.

2. Expert Sellers
Today, customers need expertise from salespeople. They need something of value added to the sales process. Adding value to the sales relationship protects against commoditization. Let go of the day to Continue reading →


Looking Forward to 2013

Kim RamserAnother year comes, and I find myself wondering where the time goes! In welcoming 2013, I started reminiscing about the last ten years. It is amazing how far this industry has come since 2003, when I was working at the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) in DC. Change is usually slow in the outdoor advertising industry. However, looking at the last 10 years, we have made a lot of progress. The challenges we have overcome and advancements made in the industry are enormous when you think about it.

Audience Measurement

Audience measurement for out of home has really evolved. No longer do we depend on traffic numbers and Daily Effective Circulation (DEC). We went through a lot of pains and trials to make progress in this area. Arbitron planned to develop a measurement standard introducing the demographics information to the measurement. Using travel diaries in Atlanta, Arbitron hoped to bring the measurement philosophy from radio to outdoor. Next, came Nielsen with a similar idea, but they used GPS technology to track consumers in Chicago. The industry was optimist about both possibilities but nothing came of them. Moving ahead to 2013, we have an audience measurement system from the Traffic Audit Bureau (TAB), called TAB OOH Ratings. Not only does it bring the industry to a new level, but has started to get agency adoption.

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Product Spotlight – Park Media Releases Sign Center 5 / New Android Media Player

Park MediaPark Media, a leader in digital signage software, recently launched Sign Center 5, the newest version of their enterprise-grade software platform. With Sign Center 5, Park Media has taken years of experience in supporting the complex needs of some of the largest network operators in North America, and incorporated those features in to a platform that is easy to use, affordable, and requires fewer people to manage than most other solutions.

Along with the release of Sign Center 5, Park Media has also unveiled an Android-based media player, the PMA-100. The PMA-100, which includes Sign Center 5 software, retails at low price of $249 per unit. Running the Android 4.0 OS (Ice Cream Sandwich), the media player supports HTML5 content, multi-zone screen layouts, external content feeds, alpha compositing, RS232 control, and other media playback and control capabilities in 1080p HD resolution.Android Player Serviceability for digital signage, menu board, kiosks, and other applications is easy and inexpensive due to the solid-state design and small form factor of the Android media player. Continue reading →