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Revenue Up 30% For abc media Group

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Retail Media specialists abc media group announced today that they had a record year in 2008 with revenue up 30% !!! Sales revenues were up over 30%, the number of campaigns up by 25% and billings through media agencies up by 75%. Jonathan Southcombe, Chief Executive told us “I believe this is because retail media […]

Big EnQii Win To Be Announced This Week

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Likely a big win for EnQii to be announced this week.

John Ryan Nordics Bank Project

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We think it more likely that this project win is a more traditional John Ryan retail merchandising / marketing consultancy play but rumour on the (cold) streets of Scandinavia is that JR are in line to announce a nice piece of business with 1,000+ bank branches. You have to ask what is happening / what […]

Danoo Expands Network With Trofie Airport Retail Partnership

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

As hinted at late Friday night and mentioned again in Saturday’s post ‘The Week Ahead’ we were expecting an announcement this week from Danoo with regard network expansion and today we can confirm that they have partnered with Trofie to introduce Digital Out of Home Screens and Custom Content in Airport Retail Locations. Trofie is […]

Kinetic Mobile Becomes Joule

Monday, January 12th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Kinetic Mobile, the full service mobile marketing agency becomes a standalone agency within GroupM and re-brands itself worldwide as Joule. Rupert Day, GroupM COO told us “Joule’s deep mobile expertise and track record of success will keep GroupM at the forefront of mobile marketing. Joule is an important part of GroupM’s strategy to offer additional […]

Nice Mention For Avanti In The Grauniad

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Avanti Screenmedia will wake up this morning to a nice, albeit brief, mention in the UK’s Grauniad Newspaper… “Among the media minnows, meanwhile, shares in Avanti Screenmedia closed up 0.25p at 1.625p as the AIM-listed provider of in-store advertising screens said it has not yet “experienced any significant decline in advertising revenues” See what can […]

UKTI’s Support Package At ISE For UK Attendees

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

With only a few weeks to go til’ ISE this news seems a bit late but it may well be worth posting it just in case some UK companies find it of use… UKTI are offering a support package at ISE for UK attendees. The package includes… Pre-show marketing using targeted html emails to selected […]

signagelive Say ‘Next Stop Canada’

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We figured something was happening when earlier in the week we wrote ‘signagelive Enters BroadSign’s Back Yard‘ after spotting a new web site aimed at the region by said vendor – anyway signagelive released the following statement today… Signagelive has teamed up with a new Canadian division of KCSP. The parent company based in Poland […]

signagelive Stand At ISE

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Here’s the signagelive stand that they will be using at ISE, Amsterdam. We are told that all the signagelive logo panels are edge lit and that the top of the central column revolves!!! Trilite truss with blue tracer lighting connects the centre to each themed POD showing live real application content. The 4 centre screens […]

Neo Booking SA Launches BookingDOOH.com

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Blimey, it’s proving to be an incredibly exciting start to the New Year. Today sees the official launch of Neo Advertising’s BookingDOOH – something we have been talking to you about since July 2007 and were doing ‘friends and family’ style beta testing of back in December. This is an initiative as you may well […]