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Bell Media Mix has partnered with Yellow Pages to help encourage Canadians to support their neighbourhood merchants by purchasing locally on Saturday, Nov. 29, it was announced today. Shop The Neighbourhood, a local shopping movement, is a corporate social responsibility initiative of Yellow Pages and encourages Canadians to make a local purchase and take advantage of exclusive event day deals offered by the businesses in their neighbourhoods. To spread the word and encourage Canadians to reflect on the importance of local businesses and drive them to Shop The Neighbourhood, Yellow Pages and Bell Media Mix have created an extensive multiplatform campaign deployed across the country in television, radio, out-of-home, and digital, leveraging Bell Media’s exceptional advertising reach. The campaign has been gaining momentum during the month of November with a phased rollout culminating on November 29, a special day when Canadians are encouraged to shop locally in their communities....

Pattison enables its digital signs to change with the weather by Val Maloney Pattison Outdoor Advertising has announced the addition of its SmartAd advertising engine to the company’s outdoor digital faces across Canada, allowing clients to update signs in real-time. The technology had already been in place on Pattison’s indoor signage, with the tech being added to the outdoor digital faces across Canada this summer. Ian Gadsby, VP of digital technology at Pattison, tells MiC the new tool allows clients to either pre-plan changes to messaging that will go live based on variables like temperature or a connected social media feed, or to update the signage in real-time through the OOH company’s CMS. He says clients are already using the technology, with Coca-Cola currently running a campaign that only displays Minute Maid ads when the weather is hot. Gadsby adds that the tech was first developed by OneStop Media, which Pattison acquired in 2011. Costs around using the tec...