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Digital Signage Expert Tour Goes To Düsseldorf

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

One day soon the show organisers are going to get wind that Minicom turn up, do an expert tour but usually pay nothing for the privilege of (effectively) exhibiting (to be fair at Screen Media Expo Europe 2009 where they first started the tour concept they were also a big exhibitor). The latest announcement is […]

TODAY – Point of Sale DS Content Best Practices

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

The Digital SIgnage Association are hosting what could be a good webinar; Best Practices for Digital Signage Content at the Point of Sale – described by them as below… This is a must-see webinar on content for point of sale networks. Members of the Digital Signage Association Content Best Practices Committee will present and discuss […]

Aldeas’s Three New Stores, Barcelona Airport

Monday, August 10th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Aldeasa first launched its digital signage network in its duty free stores in Spain’s Palma de Mallorca airport in December 2008 as part of the first phase of a global rollout program. Eight months later it’s good to see Aldeasa true to its word, now rolling out the network in three stores in Terminal 1 […]

Largest LED In UK Sports Venue

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

The 4th npower Ashes Test starts today and those folks lucky enough to be in the crowd at the Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground (Yorkshire County Cricket Club) will see a giant 16m (w) x 6.4m (h) 102m2 digiLED Ld10S screen – the largest LED video display in a UK sports venue we believe. This permanent […]

Jill Lee Joins Zoom Media

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Zoom Media or Zoom Media Marketing as we believe they are likely to be called in the UK have finally taken their UK media sales in-house after their acquisition last September of Clubcom. It can’t have been a surprise to many that they have done this (or that they have recruited Jill Lee, who is […]

Why Digital Signage By VISCOM

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Reed Exhibitions is making much, much more of ‘digital signage’ at its VISCOM events around Europe at the moment. It’s a shame that they (the events) tend to be very in-country geographically focused and there is a nagging doubt that they are playing a bit with ‘digital signage’ but as we have written before we […]

One More Nail In The Cisco DMS Coffin

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Brian Carnell, one of Cisco’s ‘top guys’ in their Digital SIgnage group is on the move, not out of Cisco completely – who in their right mind would leave a cushy position at Cisco in the middle of a recession, Ed but at least out of the core DMS group into some ‘advertising position’ in […]

Avanti Becomes ASG Media plc

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Avanti Screenmedia Group plc has been trading as ASG Media plc since 31st July. The change was made we believe as part of the agreement with Avanti Communications Group plc, following its de-merger back in 2007. The new website address is www.asgmedia.plc.uk

HOUSEKEEPING – New Banner Advertisers 16

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Observant readers will see top right in our header that we now have a sponsor. Yes, it’s taken 2 years but we finally found someone we thought we could work with (and they with us). So (drum roll please) we are pleased to announce that OVAB Europe is our official sponsor. In our normal way […]

U2 At Centre Of Blackberry Campaign

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Blackberry is sponsoring the current U2 tour and here we see Boomerang Media scheduling creative on the UK’s HealthClub Channel – a music based channel operating in 620 health clubs; Fitness First, David Lloyd and Virgin Active as well as in all Gym Screen Media sites (that pretty much covers about 75% of the gym […]