Los Angeles, CA - Yahoo held a Yahoo! event featuring Aerva’s technologies to help launch their re-branding campaign to top-tier customers in the Los Angeles area. Guests enjoyed the evening with hi-def LCD screens and a large outdoor projection that showcased Yahoo’s latest video promotions, Flickr widgets displaying images from the event photographer, and SMS text-to-screen contests; all running off of Aerva’s AerChannel platform.

Aerva’s offering was the perfect technology to showcase real-time mobile and social networking interactivity, interspersed with our custom Flash and other assets,” according to Pia Welch, Yahoo’s Event Marketing Mgr of the event. Lynn Arno, Director, Events at Yahoo! noted that, “The Yahoo LA advertising event was a huge success and the audience loved the dynamic content aspects – text-to-screen and the immediacy of seeing the party pictures!” (more…)

Mall-network launched for the Spanish-speaking community in Central America
San Salvador, El Salvador–  ViuOne has partnered with Aerva, a leading provider of digital signage software, to launch a network of digital displays in shopping malls across Central America. All screens are 63-inch Samsung plasma displays mounted vertically with videos from advertisers and sponsors, as well as content such as news and weather.  

Aerva’s flagship product for digital signage, AerWave, is a powerful software platform that allows the creation of customized, interactive display networks, all accessible via any web browser and connected to Aerva’s Cloud Computing infrastructure. AerWave gives customers like ViuOne total control over foreign language fonts, content, scheduling, and interactive promotions at all times, and enables robust, scalable administration of any number of screens in any country.

“Over the years, Aerva has provided us with technology, know-how and operational guidance, which has made our ad business a successful venture,” said Raul Nunez, Chief Operating Officer of ViuOne. “From the outset, we were very impressed with AerWave’s fully drag-n-drop user interface, sophisticated scheduling tools, RS232 control of the screens and mobile interactivity.  Additionally, Spanish-language support and a rich library of widgets for weather, RSS, Twitter, video-in and other features have made the decision to go with Aerva for an ad-based network operator like us very easy.”

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Aerva was honored to be chosen as the technology and media partner at 6th annual Advertising Week in New York City from September 21-25. Aerva provided the show with interactive content on displays in the New York Times Center, The Paley Center, Highline Ballroom for the Youtube-sponsored Battle-of-the-Ad-Bands and at Tribeca Cinema for the Facebook-sponsored Wrap Party.

The five day event is North America’s premier gathering of cutting edge advertising, media, and digital communications leaders. Aerva powered digital displays that provided simultaneous streams of social networking content from Twitter, Flickr, and RSS as well as mobile interactivity with mobile polling, picture-to-screen and text-to-screen applications to screens at various events.

The Week is a hybrid of thought leadership and special event programming, uniting clients, creatives, media and inspiring figures like Lorne Michaels, Ludacris, Jon Bon Jovi, Jimmy Wales, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Donny Deutsch, Lewis Black, Chaka Khan, Bob Greenberg, Emeril, Jimmy Fallon, Ziggy Marley and many more.

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Aerva and Ogilvy had a successful Outernet event in NYC during the launch of the Ogilvy Digital Labs with some of the most forward thinking and valuable new media service providers. Aerva was selected to be center stage during the entire event, demonstrating the latest in digital signage and mobile interactivity.

The media experts at Ogilvy presented the audience with topics such as Retail POS & Event Digital Marketing, On-the-Go Mobile Interaction & Internet Access, and Digital OOH Signage while Aerva’s powerful digital signage system displayed the latest Twitter messages, Text2Screen, Pic2Screen, and up to date poll results.

“Aerva’s technology enabled Ogilvy to add unprecedented engagement to our
event. We were able to display various multimedia, create interactive
polls and promotions and allow participants to submit questions for
speakers. Overall this created a highly interactive experience.” - Maria
Mandel, Senior Partner Executive Director - Digital Innovation & Director
of NA Digital Lab, Ogilvy
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