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Helius, a Hughes company, has teamed with PlasMedia Productions on one of the nation’s largest in-mall digital signage networks, servicing over 3,600 advertisers in 100 locations. PlasMedia selected the Helius digital signage solution because it allowed them to quickly expand their business and meet all of their technology requirements.

PlasMedia Productions operates an ad-funded digital signage network, serving shopping malls with localized ads targeting millions of shoppers. PlasMedia provides local advertisers (in-mall and off-site) an opportunity to promote their products and services through video ads and multimedia commercials. Initially, PlasMedia Productions opted to use a competitor’s digital signage solution, which required manual updates to the media players every time an ad was modified or created. By late 2006, with business growing and mall locations starting to branch out across the US, it was clear that the manual update and management solution currently in place was not going to be viable going forward. In its search to replace the existing solution, PlasMedia piloted the Helius Media Signage product and found it allowed for central control and deployment of content to any number of Helius media players.

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