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Out-of-Home, Fueled by Digital, To Weather Recession Well

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Interesting post a couple of days ago over on Media Buyer Planner indicating that Digital is helping out of home weather the recession (a little)… Out-of-Home, Fueled by Digital, to Weather Recession Well Though the outdoor industry has not been immune to the pressures facing other advertising sectors, and though total ad revenue may be […]

Amscreen Buys EHM Remnants

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Way back in September 2008 we sadly had to write about Electronic Health Media, a small’ish UK based Doctors’ surgery network that went into administration… Another One Bites The Dust We hope this isn’t true because we don’t like to see any business go under – even those that may have a less than perfect […]

New signagelive Reseller In Middle East

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

signagelive refuse to comment on their Canadian plans and our story “signagelive Enters BroadSign’s Back Yard” but have just told us about Anlonits, an Information Technology and New Media Solutions Company that has just been appointed as a new reseller in the region. Darren Cremins – Head of Distribution for signagelive told us “The appointment […]

CoolSign, Disposal, Planar, Last Bits Of…

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

And so the long running saga of a screen hardware company owning a digital signage software provider and knowing what to do with it comes to an end – yesterday Planar Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:PLNR) disposed of the last pieces of CoolSign that it had not sold to Bally Technologies back in November 2008 And the […]

Pixel Uses Scala At Manchester Central

Tuesday, January 6th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Manchester Central, the International conference and exhibition centre (formerly the G Mex Centre) has deployed these six optical front projection Supernova screens – spans something like nine metres to display animated audio visual branding, advertising and promotional content above its main reception. Nikk Smith, Technical Director at Pixel Inspiration who deployed the system told us […]

Scala To Open German Office

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Next week of course is ‘NRF 98th Annual Convention & EXPO‘ and we think we can expect a lot of announcements from various vendors both in the lead up to the show and at the event itself. Rumour is that Scala are set to announce (already having opened) a German office probably in Hamburg or […]

NEC Display Solutions Named UK Market Leader

Monday, January 5th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We haven’t seen the latest report from Meko Ltd just yet (they are usually very good so always make interesting reading) but rumours are that it names NEC Display Solutions as the market leader in ‘business class large format LCD displays’ with something like 28 per cent market share in the UK, – even more […]

Your Strategy For 2009?

Tuesday, December 30th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Have you figured out your strategy for 2009 yet? We certainly hope so as it might be a bit late if you haven’t 😉 Jason Cremins, CEO of signagelive has been working and re-working his strategy for much of the past 18 months (and has ALWAYS been kind enough to share how he believes he […]

3M’s MPro110 Micro Projector

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

A tiny handheld micro projector from 3M, the MPro110 received the Crystal Disc (best product) award at INVEX, International Trade Fair of Information and Communication Solutions for Business Development, held in the Czech Republic in October and we are looking forward to seeing it for ourselves at ISE 2009 next February. 3M are on stand […]

HOT or NOT – The Companies We Told You To Watch In 2008

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Bill Gerba did warn us about the dangers of doing the annual trends and predictions posts but we didn’t listen did we? AND was it really 12 months ago (December 2007) that we posted our ‘Ten Companies to Watch in 2008‘? Anyway, here is a brief review of how we think we did with those […]