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Formerly PRN…

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Perhaps connectiMED should actually be called FormerlyPRN, check out just how many of their management team are former PRN employees… Peter Cullen – President He was formerly EVP Business Development for Thomson Out-Of-Home Networks following the acquisition of Premier Retail Networks (PRN) by Thomson in August, 2005. At PRN he served as EVP/GM Premier Retail […]

Kreateevee Ranked 96th In Asia Pacific

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We are always on the look out for new content companies or existing content companies that have started working in the DOOH space and we recently stumbled upon Kreateevee who have for the last 3 years been focusing on delivering digital signage and interactive solutions to banks and cellular companies in Malaysia (and a bit […]

MILK Cybercafes, Paris

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

MILK, a chain of cybercafes with several locations across Paris, has recently signed a partnership with Belgian media agency iDklic. The chain has 7 internet Cafés in Paris, with a total of 700 computers available for customer use. Milk recently chose iDklic to become its advertising sales agency and to market their advertising space within […]

Warm Up This Lunchtime

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Notice in a Thorntons chocolate shop window in London. Not sure who it’s by… If anyone has any ideas / knows do let us know.

Jason Palmer Heads Up EMEA For STRATACACHE

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

STRATACACHE this week named Jason Palmer as the man who will spearhead its European, Middle Eastern and African (EMEA) business development group. He will be based in the UK. “Jason is passionate about digital out-of-home (DOOH). He possesses vast experience and expertise in the marketplace, working with clients in retail and banking to formulate and […]

PRN Lays Off More Staff

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

A source told us Monday that “PRN held its latest round of layoffs today. Yet another re-org. They keep shuffling the pieces on the playing board around but everyone knows that it’s game over” Looks like a number of key product development staff have gone, including at least 2 senior members, some video editing staff […]

Phoenix, Arizona: Droid Spotted

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We love this interactive campaign used to launch the new Verizon Droid Phone in the US. This photo was taken on location in Phoenix, Arizona. PEARL Media we believe designed, developed and created an interactive game where consumers can come up to the storefront window and actually move the arms of the Droid Robot Phone […]

Raffi Vartian, New VP Biz Dev, CoolSign

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Raffi Vartian, Co-Founder/VP, ContinuumMobile, LLC who a few months back joined CoolSign has even more recently been appointed as Vice President, Business Development for CoolSign along with his colleague Chris Colt. Raffi is one of the industries’ really nice guys and according to some an outstanding ‘wingman‘ as well 😉

Bluefox Plays With Its New Train Set

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

The first ”Francilien’ train arrived on the railway tracks in Paris over the weekend (Saturday December 12th) – the start of an important renewal for the existing suburban trains in Paris as they are gradually replaced by these new trains built by Bombardier. Each train has 32 digital screens – 4 screens per coach and […]

Clear Channel Outdoor Names Ron Cooper CEO

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CCO), this week announced that it has named Ron Cooper as Chief Executive Officer of CCO-Americas, effective December 11. He will replace Paul Meyer and report to Mark Mays, CEO of Clear Channel Outdoor. Before joining Clear Channel Outdoor, Cooper was President and COO at Adelphia Communications Corporation, leading […]