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Worsening Cash Flow At VMG Forces Share Suspension

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Shares in Vision Media Group (International) plc. were suspended today due to what was described as a “difficult working capital cash flow” situation. RNS Number : 4783V Vision Media Group (Intl) PLC 10 July 2009 Press Release 10 July 2009 Suspension from Trading The Board of Vision Media Group (International) plc (AIM:VMG), advises that it […]

Pizza Hut Renews Its atmAd Campaign

Friday, July 10th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Pizza Hut has chosen cash machine media provider atmAd to promote its GBP 4 fixed price ‘Happy Hour’ menu to consumers in the high street, who are withdrawing cash around payday. The campaign, which originally ran on atmAd in January 2009, will feature on 750,000 transactions on cash machines across the UK that are in […]

London Gets Set For Summer Scorcher

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

CBS Outdoor announced this week that it is launching a series of ‘thermal’ advertising packs for brands wishing to target the millions of consumers on the move, flocking to the city’s parks and bars during the summer heatwave. The launch of this new targeting innovation follows the release of the last 10 years’ of London […]

emebaVet And 21 Digital Signage Strategic Alliance

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Interesting strategic alliance between emebaVet, LLC, a veterinary hospital captive audience digital signage solutios and systems integrator in the US and and 21 Digital Signage, a UK-based veterinary hospital digital signage company that we have written about a few times before here. The strategic alliance they say should lead to a super network that almost […]

Symon Launches InView Mobile

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Normally quite quiet Symon Communications, Inc. (who describe themselves like many others do, as “a leading global provider of award-winning in-venue visual communications solutions” yesterday announced the availability of its InView Mobile iPhone application. Described by Symon, perhaps a little unrealistically, as revolutionary the application when launched, determines a user’s location – errr, not hard, […]

The High Visibility Of Digital

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

JCDecaux Airport and BAA have unveiled the first research that is said to prove the powerful engagement of digital airport panels (DAPs) at UK airports. Carried out by Europe’s only specialist eye-tracking agency Eyetracker, the study used state-of-the-art technology to pinpoint where passengers look, using high-tech ‘Eyetracking’ glasses that monitor passengers’ eye movements during their […]

Imagesound Wins Makro FM

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Rumour is that some time last week the first (of many) Imagesound music sites went live at Makro in the UK. Makro FM was previously with Headland Media who seem to have lost the business now to Imagesound. Makro UK currently trades out of 30 UK locations in the UK we believe and is part […]

CoolSign Appoints MxN Middle East As Regional VAR

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

News just in that MXN Middle East FZ-LLC has been appointed as the Value Added Reseller (VAR) for the Middle East and North Africa regions by CS Software Holdings LLC, maker of the CoolSign digital signage software suite. Lou Giacalone, Jr., President of CoolSign told us “CoolSign is committed to the reseller channel and providing […]

Signage, Imaging and Media, Abu Dhabi

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

The SIM – Signage, Imaging and Media event in Abu Dhabi sounds a little like the UK’s Sign & Digital show but we are told by those in the know that it is one of the most comprehensive trade shows for the regional marketing communications industry. This is the second running of the show and […]

Innovative Infiniti ‘I-View’ Showroom Project

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We quite like this Scala powered Infiniti ‘I-View’ showroom project and POPAI agree as they just awarded it a Gold Prize at the POPAI European Awards 2009 ceremony BUT the important thing to realise, and strangely not something that any of the solutions providers will have told the car manufacturer is that the colour selection […]