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Ivan Clark Leaves Kinetic

Friday, May 29th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

One of the two most influential people in the UK digital out of home media buying space, Ivan Clark headed up digital at OOH media agency Kinetic Worldwide as managing director of it’s UK Destination Media Group but has, it has been confirmed, left the group.

VMG Finally Does ‘International’

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Rumours earlier this week that Vision Media Group International (VMG) was to finally make use of the word ‘international’ in their name and setup a business somehow in North America – or as we confusingly said “is on the cards” – sorry, Ed is now joined by rumours of a win for their theme park […]

PRN Parent Calls Bankruptcy Rumour Groundless

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

PRN’s parent Thomson SA is spending a lot of time at the moment fighting bankruptcy rumours. Their shares recently fell as much as 20 percent when credit rating agency Moody’s raised the probability of Thomson defaulting following what Moody’s said was a failure to repay USD 92.5 million private placements due on 18th May. Thomson […]

European Parliament Election 2009

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Outside of Obama’s campaign we haven’t seen those seeking election make that much use of digital signage but here we see The Greens (European Free Alliance) use Cyklop™ de Cübb during May, leading up to various European Parliament and European Commission elections.

Kinetic’s Tactical Posting Opportunities

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Not at all purely digital but an interesting innovation that has been running for some time in the UK now – Kinetic’s new web page for tactical posting opportunities – oh and did we say “the chance to win an iPod Touch 32gb plus £50 iTunes vouchers” Tuesday’s tactical campaigns included for example; Royal Ascot […]

New Look UK Retailer’s Audio RFP

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

UK music vendors have a habit of dropping their pants at the faintest site of an RFP and word on the street is that it was no different with the New Look RFP that went out 6 weeks ago. Whilst the RFP is predominantly for music audio, some sites did have requirement for video – […]

Horizon Media’s 3D Digital Storefront

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Nice US storefront installation featuring an upcoming History Channel series which includes both 3D digital displays and facial recognition technology. Booked by Horizon Media in partnership with Pearl Media. This is the same partnership that brought the Andromeda Strain digital storefront in conjunction with Motomedia – which if you remember sparked the New York Times […]

Grand & Toy Chooses Adflow

Monday, May 25th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

ADFLOW Networks announced this week that it has provided Grand & Toy, the leading business solutions provider in Canada, with an in-store digital signage solution in (participating rebranded) retail locations. Paul McGowan, Director, Small Business – Marketing at the retailer told us “ADFLOW helped us with the implementation of our digital network. This partnership allowed […]

Samsung’s Allio Device

Sunday, May 24th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

This is a Samsung branded Allio camera in this picture taken from Samsung’s web site that details their PROM offer. We first wrote about Tru-Media’s Allio camera back in Nov 2008 and their deal with Samsung.

Digital Signage Experts Tour, InfoComm

Friday, May 22nd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Minicom are doing another ‘Digital Signage Experts Tour’ – this time at InfoComm 2009 in a couple of weeks time. If you are interested then meet at the Peerless booth (5441)… After a successful launch at Screenmedia Expo in London last month, Minicom Digital Signage is again offering “The Digital Signage Expert Tour” a new […]