Archive for December, 2007

Piccadilly Lite

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Land Securities, which has owned Piccadilly Lights since the 1970s, has developed “Piccadilly Lite” in order to allow more advertisers to benefit from the global exposure the site provides. I see that Clear Channel Outdoor is now working with MT2 – the sole managing agents of Piccadilly Lights – to enable brands to advertise their […]

What’s on DEPs?

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

CBS Outdoor’s dedicated digital division Alive announced yesterday the launch of a new website in a move to help media planners and advertisers make the most of digital outdoor within their advertising campaigns – the website (www.cbsoutdoor-alive.co.uk) aims to inspire and educate clients, creatives and ad agencies as to how they can truly exploit the […]

Ten Companies to Watch in 2008

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here is our list of the “Ten Companies to Watch in 2008” Leading up to Christmas I will also be publishing my “Top 10 Digital Signage / CMS / Software Solutions” and (just before the festive season begins) some of my predictions for the industry in 2008. Neo Advertising No doubt about it, these guys […]

Sam Losar joins C-Nario as US General Manager

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Sam Losar was most recently President and CEO of Synelec USA – one of the leading providers of videowall systems in the North American Market. It was annnounced yesterday that he has joined C-Nario as General Manager of their US Operation. C-Nario of course are still based in Israel and in the US are best […]

James Abdool leaves Imagesound to join EnQii

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

STOP PRESS. James Abdool who recently sold his company, TSC Music Systems to Imagesound in an all cash deal and whilst there for a short while was “retail sales director”, today joined EnQii as President, Europe. Great move on EnQii’s part. More later – including a biography.

Wayfinding at UK’s Norwich International Airport

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The embedded type devices that I am so fond of will of course (actually) find themselves inside screens (and other digital street furniture) over time – as described in several MultiQ posts in the past. Sonance also have intelligence in their screen displays and I understand that following on from the Budgen usage (Big Media […]

And then there was 3

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Realisation won a POPAI award for this content last month and if you are anyway near a 3 store (‘Three’ – The UK Mobile (Phone) Company) it’s well worth popping in to have a look – in my opinion great content, lots of different size screens and quite a few different channels. It’s a self […]

Wirespring’s FireCast in Europe

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Prompted by meeting Bill Gerba at DS Asia 2007, I have been checking out the Wirespring installations in Europe to date. It seems that I already knew some of the ‘players’ involved, Artexe in Italy for example – I just didn’t know enough about the infrastructure behind the deployments. To start with, here are a […]

MUFC commission 103” plasma from MDM.TV

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As Gerry McKenna, CEO Matchday Media, is a very keen Manchester United fan I bet this deal was a good one for him to arrange – he may have even done the installation himself and just had to be there when it was first used – just to make sure all was okay !!!!! Manchester […]

POPAIDigital’s Digital Media in Retail Forum

Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Jason Cremins, the UK’s new POPAIDigital chairman is starting to make an impact with his plans to re-focus the working group based on one of its original core principles of ‘retail’. Next week sees one of his new initiatives – a ‘Digital Media in Retail Forum’ which has been set up to provide a focus […]