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CBS Outdoor’s AdMiles

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Interesting initiative from CBS Outdoor in launching a loyalty scheme – called ‘AdMiles’, to help ad budgets travel further. Tim Bleakley, Managing Director Sales & Marketing of CBS Outdoor told us “We want to reward our customers’ loyalty and make their advertising work harder for them. This loyalty scheme is a reflection of the hard-working […]

What’s Chinese For Glasses Free 3D?

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Alioscopy was one of the 3D systems that we actually quite liked when we saw it last year in Paris and now we see it again at a couple of Chinese airports. Alioscopy recently signed an agreement with TCL Multimedia – the largest TV manufacturer in China – to equip a number of Chinese airports […]

Minicom To Announce Spin-Off Business

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

On Monday 2nd February at ISE, Minicom will announce the creation of a spin-off business focusing purely on Digital Signage. Current Minicom VP Ronni Guggenheim will take the helm of the new company as CEO and will continue we believe to be based in Zurich.

The AT&T And STRATACACHE Advantage

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

They say it takes as much effort to sell a dozen of something as it does 100,000 and it has always surprised us that not more signage vendors have ever managed to do deals with the large Telco’s. In our industry STRATACACHE seem to have got it right winning against Cisco time and time again […]

Proof Positive Thomson Disposal PRN

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

If proof positive were needed that Thomson is definitely trying to dispose of PRN take a look at this story yesterday from Dow Jones… The activities Thomson is planning to divest include its Grass Valley broadcast equipment unit and Premier Retail Network in-store TV network operations. The group has received “a certain number of expressions […]

JCDecaux 2008 Revenues Up (Just) By 2.9%

Friday, January 30th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC) announced yesterday 2008 revenues of €2,168.6 million, an increase of 2.9% compared with 2007. Excluding acquisitions and the impact of foreign exchange, organic revenue growth was 6.3% which we are told “significantly outperformed the global advertising market in 2008” It’s also worth noting… Double-digit organic revenue growth was reported in […]

Urban Media Launches TRANSIT

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

As rumoured earlier today, Urban Media are continuing to expand their signagelive network to include an additional 60 licences on top of the existing 100 licence network that they have already. Unsurprisingly this makes Urban Media the LARGEST 3G / GPRS signagelive network in Europe Urban Media company founder, Einar Schwaiger told us first “We […]

Urban Media To Roll Out 60 New Buses In February

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Norway’s Urban Media who we last wrote about in mid-December 2008 is rumoured to be going live with 60 new buses in Oslo next month. If this is true, by our calculations, that would make something like 160 x 3G enabled / signagelive licenses for Remote Media running around the city.

PRN Names D. Scott Karnedy Chief Sales Officer

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Premier Retail Networks, Inc. (PRN) announced yesterday the appointment of D. Scott Karnedy as chief sales officer. Based in New York, he will oversee PRN’s sales organization and be responsible for maximizing advertising revenue for the company whilst supporting retailers. He has more than 25 years of local and national media experience working with top […]

Are Spinning LEDs Dead?

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

As we ‘twittered‘ yesterday afternoon; yes, a lot of the good gossip goes up on Twitter first, Ed – LiteLogic have removed all references to their Revolution 360 ‘spinning LED’ product from their web site. We don’t quite understand this and haven’t got a good answer from them or their CEO as to why just […]