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Deli de Luca iPhone App In Top 4 Downloads

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Thousands of Norwegians it seems are currently downloading CatchTheEye‘s Deli de Luca iPhone App that we wrote about a few weeks ago (not I hasten to add because we wrote about it) because it is now number 4 amongst the most popular free downloads and is still climbing (see chart to the right). The App […]

Media Displays Appoints Secret Millionaire

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Media Displays, who claim like so many to be “one of the leading providers of outdoor mobile digital advertising” has appointed high profile entrepreneur and star of Channel 4’s ‘The Secret Millionaire’, Carl Hopkins, as a non-executive director. Media Displays’ products include TV advertising vehicles that feature 3 x 2m LED screens Established in 2004, […]

First Pictures Swedish Sports Retail Chain, Stadium

Saturday, August 22nd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Back in July Harris announced a rare big retail signage win in Europe – ‘Swedish sports retail chain Stadium has installed a large number of Harris® InfoCaster Player™ content playout systems as part of a complete upgrade of its internal digital signage system’ It’s a big win with Stadium having something like 110 stores throughout […]

James Sura, TouchTunes PlayPorTT Division

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

TouchTunes Corporation has announced the appointment of James Sura to the newly created position of vice president and general manager, PlayPorTT Division. Mr. Sura was formerly with Bell Canada, where he was vice president, small and medium business. He will report directly to Charles Goldstuck, president and CEO, TouchTunes.

LiteLogic Begins Lamar (Vancouver) Rollout

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Further to Gail’s post ‘10 Vancouver Buses To Get Screens in Phase One‘ it’s good to see that this rollout has now actually started. Litelogic Operations tell us that they have begun to fit digital signage systems across the Vancouver Transit System and will be ready in time for the 2010 Winter Olympics. We also […]

NYC & Company Real Deal Programs

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

This campaign for NYC & Company launched on EYE’s digital Eyelites at Queens Center Mall, earlier this week offering New York City discounts through their website. There are, we believe, two levels of rewards available through NYC & Company. The Real Deal Family initiative offers 115 special offers and incentives in addition to 50 hotel […]

Visix In Inc. Magazine’s Top 5,000

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We made our first mentions here of Visix when we heard a lot about them in the conferences at InfoComm 2009 and then met them on the show floor. This week we see that Inc. magazine ranked them number 2221 (with an impressive three-year sales growth of 141.5%.) on its third annual Inc. 5000 list. […]

HCMN Adds 11 New Venues

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Health Club Media Network, Woodland Hills, Calif., added the 11 units of the New York Health and Racquet Club to the estimated 4,000 health clubs displaying its static and digital panels that carry advertising.

Cisco Nerds Make Lousy Broadcasters

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

At the risk of sending too much traffic to one of our competitor sites – let’s hope their servers can handle it, Ed we do suggest that readers take a look at this. This is Cisco’s idea of marketing their DMS solution via Digital Signage Today. The presenter Bill Riley obviously missed his vocation as […]

Coffee Nation Stirs Up Special Offer

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Coffee Nation, UK leaders in gourmet vending are doing a discount coffee promotion through cash machine advertising for two weeks in August via the atmAd network. The ads will run on ATMs at Tesco stores, targeting consumers in close proximity to Coffee Nation machines located at those stores. The discount deal will offer consumers a […]