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Extra Monster Media, Planet Hollywood London

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Nice mix of vinyl and digital spotted over the weekend in Planet Hollywood, London. It’s a Monster Media UK install, window vinyl by tomas@c3londoncity.co.uk and sold via Wrigley’s USA direct by Monster MedIa. The installation will be up until the end of March and is the first of several campaigns planned for this summer.

Digital Photo Frames Now In 10% Of UK Homes

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Interesting snippet from Futuresource Consulting who tell us that Digital Photo Frames (DPF) are now In 10% of UK homes. Simon Bryant, Principal Consultant, Futuresource Consulting told us “Fuelled by a glut of low-cost 7-inch 16:9 offerings from a number of brands and retailers – including pureplay onliners – sales grew 60% in 2008 from […]

Coca Cola Interactive Advertising Panels

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Various Atlanta newspapers seemed to be the first to report last weekend about Coca Cola erecting interactive advertising panels fitted with digital cameras at bus stops in seven Spanish cities. The panels let passers-by take photos of themselves designed to ‘capture people’s own unique moments of happiness’ and then in true UGC / VC2 style […]

Digicom Business System RFP

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Late last week Digicom, the UK based Out of Home Digital Media Sales startup issued a comprehensive RFP for what it describes as a ‘Digicom Business System’ or (DBS) for short. The software solution required will need to automate a number of internal and external business processes whilst providing web based access to Digicom’s media […]

PRN Names Daniel Bourgault SVP, Sales

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Premier Retail Networks, Inc. (PRN) announced this week the appointment of Daniel Bourgault as senior vice president of national sales/non-endemic categories. Bourgault joins PRN from GE/NBC Universal in Burbank, Calif., where since August 2006 he served as national director of sales and business development for NBC Everywhere – Digital Media. He originally joined GE/NBC Universal […]

The Digital Bus Shelter That Weighs You

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Already this year we are starting to see a slew of VERY exciting digital roadside deployments – the latest of which is a bus shelter in Rotterdam, Netherlands (shown to the right here) that weighs you whilst advertising Fitness First – though we think it would be much funnier if McDonalds were to ‘tongue-in-cheek’ start […]

You Can Fire Me For $367,000

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

It’s (really) hard NOT to beat up on a company when you read things like this but there are some fascinating nuggets in WIRELESS RONIN TECHNOLOGIES INC’s Form 10-K dated 13-Mar-2009 not the least of which that getting rid of their old CEO and CFO in 2008 cost the company a total of $733,000 in […]

Who The Hell Are We?

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

There is nothing like having ‘feet on the ground’ in order to bring you the best industry news, gossip and opinion and we are very pleased to welcome Damien Edmonds (Brisbane) and Chris Phelan (Tokyo) who join us as contributors. Hard to believe how global an operation we are now but we cover Brisbane – […]

Avanti Launch Art By Chance Short Film Festival

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We first wrote about this film festival just before Christmas in our post ‘Art For Art’s Sake (No Money For God’s Sake)‘ and it’s thrilling to see Avanti throw themselves at the opportunity that it affords. Billed as the ‘largest public art event ever’ the UK festival is part of a wider global event – […]

Huge 103″ Screen At Benetton

Friday, March 13th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Huge Panasonic 103” Plasma screen in the United Colours of Benetton’s flagship store on Oxford Street, London. The screen was installed by 103” experts PSCo, using a bespoke stand to secure the screen onto the wall.