Archive for September, 2007

Distressed Posters on the “Content Wheel”

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Putting together the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning Digital Campaign for Macmillan Cancer Support was a big learning for me. The chance to talk to the technical / scheduling folks at 20+ of the UK’s largest networks was informative in itself. Perhaps the biggest learning was when talking to the traditional outdoor advertising folks. It seems […]

Belgium wins Cisco’s First Public DMS rollout

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Cisco of course are talking to all of their big corporate customers about their new digital signage offering (especially of course the banks) – they may not be talking to the right person about the product yet but that’s another story! Anyway it looks like a 70 high street office rollout in Belgium is their […]

London, New York, Toronto, Hong Kong, Dubai

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

EnQii Launch Sept 2007 I try to cover as much of Europe, Middle East and Africa as I can in the blog – off to Istanbul later this week of course for the Marketing1ST event. It’s rare (apart from covering Cisco and its VARs) to be able to cover one company in this marketplace that […]

Network Owner’s Forum (London)

Saturday, September 15th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Earlier this year, The Screen established the Network Owners’ Forum – an exclusive but informal group if you like for those people who owned / operated “screen networks”. It was a clever way of keeping suppliers, vendors, consultants out of the room and allowing an important sector of the community to discuss issues and focus […]

It’s a Mirror!!!

Friday, September 14th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

I had a request from Italy for some information on the mirrors that are LCD / PDPs – or rather the LCD / PDPs that are mirrors when not in use!!! Mirrormedia do a nice one – behind the mirror is a Hitachi plasma screen!! See http://www.mirrormedia.com/ Mirror Image is another – German made, custom-engineered, […]

City Gateway Media – World’s Biggest Coffee Morning

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

I cannot thank the folks at City Gateway Media enough (and Posterplus) for donating air time on their giant digital screens. Above is a favourite shot of mine that shows what an awesome job Amigo Digital did with producing a creative that made the most of the giant portrait screen and how fantastic the City […]

Edwards – World’s Biggest Coffee Morning

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Kaleidovision and Brightspace Media kindly donated air time across their network for the Macmillan Cancer Support – World’s Biggest Coffee Morning campaign. Here is an example of the content playing out in an Edwards bar (part of the Mitchells and Butlers group) who also took part in the Macmillan poster campaign.

Decision Vision growing by 20 stores a week

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Decision Vision the unique screen network based upon the premise of free EPOS to a retailer seems to be growing by around 20 stores per week, which means that they will have 400 stores in total installed by the end of this month. They currently have 327 stores according to DOOHAN. Mike Baker, head of […]

HMV Store of The Future

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

I have just seen one of the first of what I believe are two digital download kiosks in HMV in Tunbridge Wells (the other is in HMV Dudley Merry Hill). Hartland Media (nee Hartland Electronics) have provided HMV with a number of multifunctional kiosk solutions as part of HMV’s Store of The Future concept. These […]

Avanti Screenmedia Announces Two New Contract Wins

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Avanti Screenmedia just announced two new contract wins. The first that it had extended its contract with its largest client, The Mall Corporation, for a further 3 years. The Mall Corporation owns and operates 23 shopping malls in the UK. Now all Avanti need to do is, as previously suggested on this blog, bid for […]