Archive for February, 2008

New Scandinavian “Media house”

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Tor Olav Haugen and Jon Marius Bastøe, the guys with the Retail ROI measurement methodology that we raved about last year have just now launched a new business which they are calling CatchTheEye – this will be in effect a Scandinavian “Media house”. They will be offering consultancy with focus at “commercialising the screens and […]

Imagesound Reports Results a Week Today

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Imagesound will be reporting their results a week today and folks like Hemscott are already second guessing likelihood good or bad … Close watchers of Imagesound PLC, a supplier of in-store music, radio and TV services to the branded retail and leisure sector, will be looking for an update on the progress made in forging […]

The Community Network

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Expect an announcement this week from The Community Network (previously known as SubPostmasterTV). They have been busy in Australia the last few months but as usual like to generally keep their heads down about what they been doing their (and elsewhere). As one of the largest, in shear terms of venue numbers, in the UK […]

Apple Picked These Folks For Their iPhone Launch

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

One of our great USPs we think, is our ability to pick up the phone and talk to the CEO’s and senior exec’s of the major industry players. Yesterday we had a call with Chris Riegel, CEO of STRATACACHE. Chris founded the company back in 1999 and since then, at regular but not hurried intervals, […]

Butiks-tv-bolag går samman om reklamförsäljningen

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here’s more information on yesterday’s post about two COMPETITORS COLLABORATING in Sweden – “Instore TV (Retail digital signage) companies collaborate on Advertising sales”

Sweden’s RTV and Q-VISION in Joint Sales Effort

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A Swedish newspaper has written that RTV and Q-VISION have signed a joint sales agreement that will give advertisers access to over 95% of digital screens in the retail grocery arena in Sweden. A clever move and one we would like to see more of in other geographies. It’s a move that will make the […]

Adwalker conquista Barcelona

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We noticed that Adwalker were at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona promoting the Panasonic TOUGHBOOK laptop and driving traffic to their stand. Their was even a prize draw to win a 42” Panasonic plasma tv. Panasonic told us that they thought Adwalker had delivered over 80% of all the stand traffic throughout the […]

Quividi bis in die EuroShop 2008

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

EuroShop opens tomorrow and we think those who have an interest in retail will have been sensible and been there!! We see that Quividi has been twice-sensible being basically on the booths of two partners at EuroShop… Mettler Toledo (hall 6, booth G76), the worldwide leader in scales, will introduce at EuroShop a new model […]

Max is Koning

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This ‘hack’ of LED screens was in fact a commercial for a Dutch company – http://www.infosupport.nl/afstuderen but the YouTube video is well worth a watch. The video is in Dutch and 1m 27 seconds long http://www.youtube.com/user/maxcornelisse

Dear AKA.TV, It’s Ocean Outdoor!

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Last October Media Week were the first to write about Ocean Outdoor’s work with Land Securities, owner’s (amongst others) of the St ?John’s and Clayton Square shopping centres in Liverpool. The scoop back then was that Ocean Outdoor were working with them on a giant LED screen (Media Week said 31 x 7, AKA.TV say […]