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#ISE2010 AV Interactive’s ISE Preview

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

A truly excellent preview of ISE 2010 by the folks at AV Interactive. AV will of course be canvassing visitor and exhibitor opinions as part of its ‘Have Your Say’ feature as well as putting out an impressive bulk of stories live from the show. Nice of them also to make mention of the Blogger […]

AOpen Partnerships

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

AOpen, a major manufacturer of digital signage hardware, announced this week a range of ‘ready to go’ digital signage players available through Distributors and Strategic Partners across the world. More on this story later.

#nrf10 – NCR Celebrates 125 Years At NRF

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) will celebrate 125 years of innovation and helping retailers around the world better connect, interact and transact with their customers in booth #401 at the 99th annual National Retail Federation Big Show in New York City, January 11-12, 2010. Mike Webster, vice president and general manager for NCR’s retail line of […]

May The Tweet Be With You!

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

We think that two (relatively) unsung heroes of the show season are Geri Wolff, President, CEO Market Works International, Inc. and Beky Cann, Neesham Public Relations. The former of course manages all the PR and marketing for DSE and the latter the same for Screen media expo Europe and DOOH Expo and especially as ‘pretend’ […]

POSTV’s Supermarkt TV Proves Effective

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Research from Nielsen has indicated that POSTV’s Supermarkt TV is an effective way to gain extra attention and increase sales on the shop floor. Since the introduction of Supermarkt TV in March 2008, dozens of top brands have advertised on 1,200 screens that make up the network in 200 connected stores reaching almost three million shoppers weekly. […]

Richard Rowley Joins abc media

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Richard Rowley, formerly of atmAd, Maiden and Titan to name but a few, has joined abc media as Senior Sales Manager.

HOUSEKEEPING – New Banner Advertisers 18

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

We finished up 2009 almost fully booked for banner advertisements and are pleased to announce (and of course thank) never.no and DSE and AOpen and zsah and KioskCom / Digital Signage Show who have all recently started advertising with us. As usual, thanks to all of them because without advertisers you would not have a […]

OAA Campaign Courts Controversy

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Not everyone is in agreement that the UK’s Outdoor Advertising Association recent campaign is necessarily a good thing; with (tongue in cheek) suggestions for new tag lines such as ‘Fat people are lazy and eat too much‘ and ‘England is shit at football‘ the folks overs at Cream Global believes that the campaign only proves […]

#ISE2010 – Seeing Is Believing (DISE)

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

“Seeing is believing” is DISE‘s tag line and they are being true to their word with this stand at ISE in a few weeks time in Amstertdam. Tobias Ekmark tells us that they will be showing different ways of using the software including we believe some really interesting demos together with never.no We think this […]

Verifone Taxi Media Sales (Business)

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Here’s a bit more about VeriFone Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PAY) acquisition of Clear Channel Outdoor’s Taxi Media Sales Business that we covered very briefly yesterday. Financial terms were not disclosed. VeriFone intends to leverage the business into VeriFone’s Media Solutions payment-enabled business, where they believe “in-taxi digital content is positioned to become one of the […]