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WSJ Office Network Revenue Up 100%

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

The Wall Street Journal Office Network (WSJON) this week announced advertising revenue is up 100% this year, following a 300% increase in 2008. Advertising growth on The Wall Street Journal Office Network has been wide-ranging, with significant increases in media spending across categories including technology, telecommunications, automotive, financial services and business travel. Adam Potashnick, Director […]

Titan D6 Going Up, Going Down

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Titan’s new D6 digital 6-sheets at Bluewater (one of the largest UK Shopping Malls) speak for themselves in terms of quality, engineering build and clarity. Not all will like this D6 between the up and down escalators but you cannot argue with the impact that it has. Personally we like!

Passion Trumps Skepticism

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

“There is a lot to be said for persistence. The folks at JD Events, the conference organizers of KioskCom and the Digital Signage Show, have been after us for years to participate, attend or otherwise acknowledge their conferences in New York and Las Vegas. Our stance had consistently been that there were size, venue, timing […]

Great Ormond Street Appoints Amscreen

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Amscreen was this week appointed exclusive digital signage partner in a five year deal by Great Ormond Street Hospital, the UK’s leading centre for treating sick children. The deal will see Amscreen’s one-size fits all screens installed throughout the London-based hospital in high-traffic areas such as waiting rooms, corridors, coffee shops and restaurants. The screens’ […]

Bernard Henry Kroger Says…

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

More rumour state-side is that Kroger, perhaps the largest ‘traditional’ supermarket chain in the USA, may well have asked the In-Store Broadcasting (IBN) folks to pull screen networks out of several dozen Kroger stores in the Houston region of Southeastern Texas. We last wrote about IBN when they nabbed Bill Lynch, former EVP of Sales […]

PRN People And Wins

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Some people movement between PRN and Meijer we understand and rumours of another nice win for PRN. More later.

i-CONIC (Getty) IMAGES

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Russ Curry, Managing Director of i-CONIC IMAGES, told us over dinner the other evening that he is also pleased to be able to announce that Getty Images has become one of his company’s suppliers of video content for the DOOH market. I-CONIC IMAGES has tended not to discuss its suppliers, since some of them prefer […]

First Pic Titan Lakeside D6

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Remember back in September that Titan Outdoor announced the launch of 100 or so digital six-sheets (D6) at several premium shopping centres across the UK, well here is the first picture of an install at Lakeside. We like. The D6 of course is the enclosure designed and manufactured by iBlink who also do the 24×7 […]

Imperative Group Announces US Associates

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Back in June Chris Heap’s Imperative Group announced it’s Associate Program in what was described at the time as “a first class team of associates’ aimed at … tackling emerging multichannel media opportunities in the digital out of home sector”. Now it appears that the Imperative Group have set their sites on North America with […]

EnQii Looking For Product Manager

Monday, October 12th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

EnQii is looking for a new product manager as below… Product Manager, EnQii Group The following are the key responsibilities associated with this position: To be a core part of the senior executive team in determining EnQii’s overall corporate strategy To provide vision, leadership and strategic direction for the planning and implementation of EnQii’s product […]