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Titan Hires Industry Veteran As General Counsel

Thursday, June 24th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Titan has hired Amy Berlin to head up its legal function as Executive Vice President, General Counsel of the company. Ms Berlin has vast experience in the Out-of-Home sector and will also sit on Titan’s Executive Committee.

EYE Launches Mobile Proximity Marketing Network

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Interesting news yesterday that Out-of-Home mall media specialist, EYE, has partnered with Ace Marketing & Promotions to launch a Mobile Proximity Marketing Network across EYE’s digital Eyelite units. Eye Shop Sr. Vice President, Jeff Gunderman told us “Mobile Proximity Marketing gives EYE the opportunity to make our advertisements interactive and offer clients reporting about the […]

JCDecaux Airport Appoints Nicola Armitage

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

JCDecaux Airport has just appointed Nicola Armitage as Head of Agency Sales. Nicola was previously Group Head of Kinetic Planning at Titan Outdoor. Reporting to Alan Sullivan, Sales Director of JCDecaux Airport, Nicola will head a team of 5 responsible for agency sales across a portfolio that includes: Heathrow, London Luton, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen […]

#MWL2010’s Augmented Reality iPhone App

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Marketing Week Live 2010 is launching an Augmented Reality iPhone app that combines both AR and image recognition exclusively for the show in London next week. The app is a game of two halves – the image recognition means visitors can simply point their iPhones at exhibitor logos to get all the info they need […]

Budweiser Predicts FIFA World Cup Victory

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Digital media sales house Digicom has brought official FIFA 2010 beer sponsor Budweiser onto Amscreen’s forecourt digital screen network as the first alcohol advertiser to run a campaign on the screens. Budweiser are using the network to promote their World Cup sponsorship and make their brand the choice of consumers during the tournament. The forecourt […]

Paul Farrow Joins HP

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

The last time we made mention of Paul Farrow it was January 2009 and he had just joined BroadSign as Sales Director, Europe. News reached us last week that he is no longer at BroadSign but now firmly in place as ‘EMEA Digital Signage GTM Business Development Manager‘ at Hewlett-Packard.

No To Advertising

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

At first glance this could pass for a piece of art on one of the digital screens on the Paris Metro but look again and you will that it’s not that at all. It is actually graffiti and most probably put there by one of the five anti-advertising associations with wonderfully evocative names (Smile, You’re […]

#ScreenMediaExpo – May 18-19, 2011

Saturday, June 19th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

The dates for #ScreenMediaExpo in 2011 are May 18-19 and again will take place at Earls Court in London.

dimedis GmbH Launches Kompass

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

dimedis GmbH is one of the veterans in the digital signage software space in Germany (and a 2008 Digital Signage Best Practice Award winner) and this week they launched kompas – see their new digital signage website at www.kompas-software.com. Kompas is decsribed as an open Source, Linux based solution that powers some of Germany’s largest […]

5th Digital Signage Investor Conference

Thursday, June 17th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

It’s been confirmed now that Stuart Armstrong from EnQii and our very own editor in chief are confirmed as co-chairs for the next Strategy Institute Digital Signage Investor Conference which is being held 5th – 6th October 2010 in New York City. You may remember how much we ‘raved’ about last year’s event: ‘How Good […]