QUIVIDI and ICON Multimedia come to a Strategic Worldwide Collaboration Agreement

(MADRID, 10/30/2014) The French Company Quividi and the Spanish ICON Multimedia have come to an agreement that will allow ICON Multimedia to commercialize the French Audience Measurement Solution in Spain.

Quividi is considered the leader in the Audience Measurement market and has developed an extraordinary solution to test the DOOH (Digital Out of Home) communication impact, using a simple video sensor that counts the number of current spectators (real ones) and also the “Opportunities To See” (potential ones). At the same time, the video shows precisely the exposure and attention times while estimating the gender and age distribution of the content viewers. Not only that, but this technology can even be used to measure the crossing frequency in order to know the attendance of particular places.

In addition, ICON Multimedia is the developer of DENEVA Digital Communication Integral Solution, which is considered one of the leader platforms in this market. DENEVA is able to publish multimedia content on monitors, PA systems, and other type of channels distributed all over the world and with the maximum level of control.

According to this agreement ICON Multimedia preferentially adds Quividi to its Audience measurement solutions in order to satisfy all the different needs detected in this sector. This will benefit DENEVA clients on both national and international levels. This is possible thanks to the superb integration with Quividi. The integration allows for the direct extraction of reports from the platform with customized content displays depending on the target and measurement of the in-store traffic. In addition, ICON Multimedia and Quividi are cooperating to create different bundles or promo kits that provide access to the best technology possible, with a competitive price.

Alberto Herrero Mañanes, Europe Business Manager of ICON Multimedia and Ke-Quang Nguyen-Phuc, Operation Chief of Quividi have discussed their mutual decision to take this important step due to the strong presence this Spanish company has in DS Hispanic market, and the exponential growth of Quividi on five different continents.

Alberto Herrero proclaimed:

The strategic alliance of ICON Multimedia let us align our interests with a Digital Signage Market leader and guarantees us the access to better and more versatile technology of Audience Measurement.

On his side, Mr. Nguyen-Phuc explained:

An alliance with ICON Multimedia is key to us since DENEVA is one of the most interesting and powerful Digital Signage Solutions of the market.

Corporate information:

ICON Multimedia S.L., based in Palencia, is a 21-year-old software company, with more than 15 years of experience in the Digital Signage sector. ICON Multimedia has a really young and experienced workforce, formed by 30 full-time employees. It is a strong starring at the Digital Out Of Home (DOOH) market, with its solution DENEVA, specially at high-availability environments, like High Speed Railway Stations, Airports, or Visual Marketing solutions, among others.

About Quividi:

Quividi provides a real-time video analytics solution that helps media owners, retailers, and brands finely count and qualify their audiences. Using the latest face and body detection technique and standard webcams, the Quividi solution delivers exhaustive metrics on viewers, opportunities to see, attention time, and demographics in a completely anonymous fashion and without ever recording any image or personal data.

Located in both California and France, Quividi pioneered the anonymous face detection category in 2006 and is the world leader in Digital Out Of Home audience measurement, with customers in over 46 countries and more than 3 billion faces analyzed.

For more information please see Quividi’s website at www.quividi.com or email press@quividi.com.

ICON Multimedia based in Palencia sets its solution DENEVA.cuatro for communication and interactivity in the new EFIDES Center.

(PALENCIA 10/22/2014).- ICON Multimedia and its Integral Communication System called DENEVA.cuatro has been selected by the City Council of Palencia to be the one who provides to this new multi-use Center with the latest interactive digital signage technology for the European Urban Plan.

The EFIDES Center in Palencia, recently opened, is a multi-purpose project to achieve digital literacy for citizens and SMEs of Palencia, who are especially concerned about unemployed people and their need for training in this subject, strengthen of user’s technological skills and abilities. This training makes possible job-placement, job-creation and is an economical engine in Palencia.

ICON Multimedia´s Project lets users control in an interactive way a total of 3 PTZ automatic cutting-edge cameras from AXIS brand. These cameras are remotely managed from a 55´´ screen located at the building´s hall and using Microsoft Kinect technology. They are placed in three different places of the center; used for automotive training in collaboration with Renault Spain, and also for Cookery and Environmental training.

User is placed facing the screen and this way and using only gestures he is able to select the camera of the room he wants to visit in that moment. You can also zoom-in and out and move the camera with gestures. All this enables anyone to make virtual visits across the different training areas of the Center.

Furthermore DENEVA player makes full use of Kinect when talking about shape analysis, and has exclusively developed for this project a screen that shows a virtual fish tank where 3D fishes swim freely. As soon as somebody is detected standing in front of it, they are linked to that person and fishes follow his movement.

Additionally the EFIDES Center benefits from the rest of DENEVA features in traditional Digital Signage, creating their own internal content channel and also another channel based on social media such as Facebook, Twitter whose target audience are students, teachers and visitors in general. This content is shown when there are no users interacting with the system.

This new DENEVA.cuatro feature that is being officially launched is currently being analyzed and evaluated by several clients, especially in retail sector because they are always looking for different ways to make users interact with Media Contents, it opens up a new world of communication possibilities.

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CORPORATIVE INFORMATION

ICON Multimedia S.L. is located in Palencia (Spain), it is more than 21 years old and it has more than 15 years of experience in Digital Signage sector. At this moment there are 30 young professionals working at ICON Multimedia. It has a strong presence in Public Integral Communication Solutions with its product DENEVA, especially in high availability environments such as High Speed Railway Lines, Airports and Visual Marketing Solutions among others.

For further information, please contact:

Rafael Hornos / ICON Multimedia / Tel. 970 70 29 06 / rhornos@iconmm.com

Ibermutuamur has awarded 302 companies of Castilla y León in recognition of their efforts to improve the occupational risk prevention and reduction in the number of work accidents.

This effort has made these companies register the most favorable accident rates of all the Autonomous Community in each particular sector, and some of them have also been motivated in the last few years with the Tax Reduction System for Professional Eventualities called Bonus.

At a national level, the 2011 Bonus Incentive Program has recognized the work of a total of 496 companies for improving the prevention and reduction of work accidents. Specifically, in Castilla y León 127 companies have obtained the 2011 incentive Bonus, which has reached a total amount of 522,740.42 euros in this region.

In previous campaigns, the 2009 Bonus in Castilla y Leon recognized the work of 152 companies and amounted to 484.581,45 euros, while the 2010 Bonus was given to 171 companies and amounted to 727,758.63 euros.

The recognition act, which took place in Valladolid, has count on the participation of the Finance Minister of the Regional Government of Castilla y León, María del Pilar del Olmo Moro, the deputy Representative of the Government in Valladolid, José Antonio Martínez Bermejo, the deputy General Director of Ibermutuamur Luis Cisnal, and the Regional Director of Ibermutuamur in Castilla y León, Rafael Tortuero.