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Heathrow Express Invests GBP 1.6 Million

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

This morning the official press release came out that the UK’s Heathrow Express is to invest GBP 1.6 million in digital media but then we told you much of that last Thursday when we wrote ‘Zillion Screens Heathrow Express‘. Following on from Heathrow Airport’s largest deployment of digital advertising sites at any airport worldwide, Heathrow […]

Nobody Knows Why It’s Blue

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We have 6 at the moment but you can bet by the end of the year with YOUR help we will have enough for a top 10 list of Blue Screen of Death type errors seen in the DOOH world. We received two new Blue Screen of Death pictures recently (the most recent taken over […]

Mood Media To Acquire Music Matic

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Rumour this week was that Mood Media had just made an acquisition. Many in the industry believed that it might be POS in Germany or Music Marketing Services’ service and installation business but we are pretty confident that it is actually Music Matic an in-store radio and creative business with offices in Paris, Spain and […]

Aldi-TV geht auf Testsendung

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

BIg news in Germany is the start of an Aldi TV digital signage pilot – Aldi of course are the discount supermarket chain and that they should be trialling screens is actually quite interesting – especially in the light of such notable retail ‘failures’ from folks in how should we say, the higher end of […]

Go On Feed Your Screen

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Six weeks ago we wrote ‘The Ecosystem Cometh‘ and if more proof was needed to show the maturity of the industry check out (a) the ongoing BlueFox special offer for free content for two months and (b) ScreenFeed’s excellent real-time updated media content (Images, Video and Audio) subscription offer. signagelive are usually at the forefront […]

Enixa Media a maintenant une nouvelle équipe de gestion

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Still for sale EK3 yet still denying it to all and sundry has just purchased Montreal based Enixa Media – as it says on the web site (Enixa) “is now under the management of London, Ontario digital narrowcasting provider, EK3” As reported on the Digital Signage in Canada blog “Enixa Media, Inc. managed and installed […]

Zillion Screens Heathrow Express

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Expect a big announcement from Heathrow Express and / or JCDecaux in the UK in the next 48 hours. Nothing has been installed just yet but LOADS and loads of digital screens are planned almost everywhere at the Heathrow Airport terminus. They planned to be all installed by the end of October and include screens […]

Ski Dubai, 25 Screens

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Meeddya MEA (The Meeddya Group) did this install in Dubai, UAE. It’s 25 screens at Ski Dubai for MAF Group using Navori Ski Dubai of course allows visitors to enjoy winter weather ski and snow entertainment in the middle of the desert – why exactly you would want to do that is beyond us but […]

Gone In 30 Seconds

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

It probably wasn’t worth a WHOLE press release, perhaps a tweet or a mention in presentation at a conference but we are anal enough to have found it interesting anyway here we see Captivate Network offerings its advertisers new (to them) 30-second ad format spots on it’s 8,000-plus North American digital screen network. Andrea Fairbairn, […]

Massiv TV, South Africa

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

“Bringing digital to taxi’s” is the way that our new friends at Posterscope South Africa described this network to us. We are told that Massiv TV has spent more than four years, we quote “at great expense, with masses of passion and effort to develop an out of home television platform that will engage commuters […]