Archive for January, 2008

Digital Menu Boards

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Menu Boards are of course, everywhere and anywhere that there is a menu and a price. Some change often and some don’t. There aren’t however that many Digital Menu Boards around – which we think is incredibly surprising when you think how well digital signage (especially in conjunction with HD displays) is suited to this […]

Teeny Shoppers

Saturday, January 19th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Stuart Armstrong, EnQii / Digital View Media President, North America, writes regular articles and posts on the Hub about Digital Signage. His most recent is entitled “Teeny Shoppers” and tells us “For innovation at retail, look no farther than your own pocket” As usual, well worth a read.

This Month’s Rumour and Gossip

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This is true ‘scuttlebut’ – a simple round up of rumour and gossip from the industry in this first month of the year. Sometimes people tell us stuff and we promise not to tell ALL and sometimes we just hear things!! Here’s what we have heard in the last few weeks: – Big announcement from […]

Digital Signage – a Brand Building or a Promotional Tool?

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Trust me, this is what Barnaby Page is incredibly good at – organising, chairing (and managing) lively debates. He was superb at Digital Signage Asia doing exactly that and he will be at it again soon at Screen Expo Europe. The debate will be held in Theatre B (The Advertising Centre) at 11:00 to 12:00 […]

One Web, One Log-In

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Our R&D team get it right again – only last week in a HOUSEKEEPING post, DailyDOOH added its weight 😉 behind the OpenID initiative! Seems we are in good company as it has just been announced that Yahoo is to do the same… 18.01.2008 Yahoo! lends weight to single digital identity drive Global web giant […]

Dot One New Media (Portugal)

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Nice name for a nice bunch of people!!! Dotonenewmedia will be over from Portugal at Screen Expo on stand C09. We first came across them as they have been following up our work a few years ago with Cisco and the Portugese bank CGD in Lisbon. Dot One New Media has been doing out-of-home advertising […]

End of the road for ads on digital screens?

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

I haven’t had a letter published in a magazine since I was a school boy, when I wrote to Modeling Magazine about an Airfix kit that I had trouble making so let’s see if that changes with the letter I just posted (okay, emailed – it doesn’t sound the same when you say ’emailed’) to […]

Pixman Wearable Media Solutions

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Adwalker have been getting most of the press recently what with their (very visual) attendance at football and rugby grounds up and down the United Kingdom, but those folks at Pixman are not taking it lying down. In a recent briefing session with them, we learnt that Pixman in the UK… are in the final […]

Speaker Sessions Not to Miss at Screen Expo Europe

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We have picked out for you some of the speaker sessions that we think will be the most interesting at Screen Expo Europe. There are a lot of familiar faces in the speaker line up (we do hope that they will all have something new to say) but anyway, here’s our take on who not […]

World’s largest video wall proposed for Manchester

Thursday, January 17th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Last June Dave Russell’s Property Alliance Group gained permission to erect, what would be the world’s largest video wall on its proposed 18 storey ‘Axis’ development in central Manchester. The plan was to erect a screen 12 metres x 51 metres (12 meters wide by 51 meters tall – so a portrait style screen much […]