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Campaign Recognises Ocean Outdoor Sales Efforts

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Ocean Outdoor has been named Outdoor Sales Team of the Year at the Campaign Media Awards, beating industry giants JCDecaux and Clear Channel to the title. The award judging panel said they were impressed how a relatively smaller company had held its own in what is regarded to be a pretty tough marketplace. “This is […]

MOOH Group DOOH Loos For Number One’s

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

In the past 24 hours we have heard of two new digital signage applications for men’s toilets. The first was the MOOH Group‘s DOOH Loo (see also our story about a ‘pee-controlled video game here‘) The DOOH loo consists of small screens located at the top of a waterless urinal called a Urimat.  signagelive CEO […]

Electroboutique Pop-up At The Science Museum

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

The Electroboutique pop-up exhibition at the Science Museum awoke my curiosity. Innovative art production company Electroboutique (Russian artists Alexei Shulgin and Aristarkh Chernyshev) has created interactive artworks using live data, sophisticated custom electronics and bespoke software. The works have been created over the past seven years, and include two new works commissioned specifically for this […]

Tara Wilson Joins MediaZest Plc

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Tara Wilson joins MediaZest Plc after 6 years at Yell Ltd. Graduating with a First Class (Hons) Degree in Business & Management, she has a background in Product Marketing, Marketing Communications and led Yell’s proven value call monitoring marketing initiative to show customers direct ROI. After 4 years in marketing, she then turned her hand […]

Harris Signs DigiSky As Its First DOOH Reseller For Russia

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Harris Broadcast Communications has teamed up with Moscow-based DigiSky Group to reach the Russian market. DigiSky Group is now Harris’ first DOOH reseller, having achieved the Specialist Partner status in Harris’ Partner Program in the country. DigiSky is a managed network provider that designs, implements and manages DOOH networks for customers in retail, education, entertainment, […]

#ISE2012 Lighthouse’s VideoBlades

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Lighthouse will be showcasing new products at #ISE2012 that could be of use in the digital signage arena. Making its first appearance at ISE is the VideoBlades SkyRoll, the result of an alliance between Lighthouse and Pix2o, providing a 12.5mm pixel pitch, modular LED screen that delivers superb image quality both indoors and outdoors. VideoBlades […]

Manchester Went Digital (And Well)

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Several book deadlines meant that none of our team could get up to Manchester today for The Screen’s usually very good series of Breakfast Briefings. By all reports it was a very well attended event with just over 100 folks in attendance. Now whilst this may have been buoyed by a whole lot of NEC […]

“Completely Untrue” Says Focus Media

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Reuters has reported that Focus Media Holding said on Tuesday (that’s today of course) that the Muddy Waters report accusing the firm of overstating the number of screens in its LCD network, is ‘completely untrue‘ – perhaps they sent some Chinese men around on bicycles overnight to count all the screens that make up their […]

Scala Helps Italian Luxury Brand To Show Quality

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Quality Living, an Italian luxury, real estate and interior design company has revamped its concept store, located in the historical city centre of Verona using digital signage powered by Scala. The concept store is a crucial part of Quality Living’s new communication strategy, because it serves as a central point of reference for all of […]

Manchester Goes Digital, MOSI Museum

Monday, November 21st, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Tomorrow (Tuesday 22nd November 2011) The Screen is venturing up the M6 to explore the digital landscape of Manchester. Working in conjunction with the organisers of #ISE2012 and NEC Displays, The Screen will see how Manchester is aggressively expanding its digital infrastructure, with innovative new installations from city centre, to airport, shopping mall and visitor […]