Archive for September, 2007

How to launch a retail screen network without advertisers?

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

CatchTheEye – Key Findings There is some interesting research being carried out in Norway at the moment on how to launch a retail screen network without having to take income from advertisers. As you probably know there are generally thought to be three distinct classifications of screen networks. Cleverdis in their “Out of Home Digital […]

POPAIdigital Networking Evening, London, September 27th 2007

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

POPAIdigital are holding a Networking Evening in London on September 27th at the S.C.I, 15 Belgrave Sq London 5:30pm – 8:30pm drinks included. There will be two speakers: – David Dalzell, the Managing Director of ONELAN will be talking about his company’s work in the Education/Foyer sector of the Digital Signage market and how some […]

Why is the Lloyds TSB UK Signage Content so bad?

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

In the UK LloydsTSB, a good bank, with clever people at the helm and a great brand, has been playing with Digital Signage for almost 2 years now. Across London they have not quite half a dozen branches with screens. The first rollouts were using John Ryan / ScreenRed technology and the last one to […]

Cabtivate becomes tapinto

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The Edinburgh based Cabtivate went into receivership earlier this but the founders of that network have formed a new venture called “tapinto” tapinto state “expert in the provision of mobile narrowcast digital screen networks. We are international suppliers of audio visual systems for use in the transport sector. We have developed a mobile interactive entertainment […]

200 Inches Diagonally!!

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

I am not sure if this is, in fact, the World’s biggest digital display system but it is certainly huge – the digital display system measures an enormous 200 inches diagonally !! I had a chance to have a look at it recently in Screen Technology’s Cambridge Demonstration Facility. It was put together by a […]

The Last Mile of Digital Signage

Wednesday, September 12th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Minicom Extensions and Content Distribution PDF Minicom are hosting a webinar next Friday Friday September 21st, at 09:00 am US Pacific Time (12:00 pm US Eastern Time) which I believe converts as 09:00:00 Friday September 21, 2007 in US/Pacific converts to 17:00:00 Friday September 21, 2007 in Europe/London 18:00:00 Friday September 21, 2007 in Europe/Paris […]

Karstadt Does Digital Signage

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The German retailer Karstadt is to install an average of 45 flat screens in about a dozen of their top stores. The demo system is currently running in Düsseldorf for anyone who wants to go and see it. There is a rumour that says the rollout may even be as many as 50 stores before […]

Pilot installations at Supermarket Seilori (Finland)

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Panphonics Technology PDF Kesko operates in Finland, Sweden, Norway, the Baltic countries and Russia and has about 2,200 stores engaged in chain operations in seven countries. Kesko has seven Business Divisions ranging from groceries to car sales. The new supermarket Seilori (pictures shown above) opened in December 2006. New technologies have been used extensively with […]

Retail / Leisure – tough trading conditions not affecting music, messaging and AV

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Derek Mapp the chairman of Imagesound made some up beat comments yesterday about the tough trading conditions in the UK at the moment (he must have meant Retail / Leisure because Hotel / Hospitality seems to be okay at present) “Whilst some of our clients are experiencing tough trading conditions, this is not impacting their […]

Avanti Screenmedia and Brightspace Media roll out Nivea Commercial

Monday, September 10th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Avanti Screenmedia and Brightspace Media today started airing a new Nivea commercial in almost 1,000 combined sites. It’s a 20 second creative that shows a woman running through a park and a man running the other way who takes a look (at the woman). Good to see that a brand like Nivea is experimenting in […]