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For those of you that don’t know / have forgotten, WBCM stands for ‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’, which was the charitable event that the Digital Out Of Home industry adopted last year. WBCM ’07 was an incredible success for both Macmillan and the UK DOOH industry with over 20 networks kindly donating airtime to show […]

We have had a quick look at the two French businesses that have reputedly gone under. Here’s our very quick take on it… Both of them appear to be what the French would call ‘ringard’ – which is effectively down-market / unsophisticated in their presentations and both were in the market before DSL came along. […]

Clear Channel’s Socialite deployment has obviously attracted a lot of interest as we have already been fielding a number of questions about it. The software driving the Socialite Panel – interesting that the Clear Channel people we speak to, call it a panel and not a poster – something that we believe is likely to […]

Retec Digital (RET.L), yet another under performing AIM Listed business have just acquired Liquid Digital for £150,000 cash and £100,000 in Retec Digital stock. Retec Digital Plc describe themselves as a multi-channel marketing services company and one of the UK’s largest providers of guided selling solutions. They do count Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s amongst their […]

Yesterday it was announced that Cityspace had bought Kizoom. Kizoom are basically a mobile and internet transport information provider. Kizoom, founded in 1999 boasts the five biggest UK mobile operators, Transport for London (TfL) and National Rail Enquiries (NRE) amongst others as its customers. About Cityspace Since 1996 Cityspace has been delivering digital information to […]

You know the other day when we said that Google Alerts occasionally throws up the odd reference? Well today we received one of those ‘anomalies’ and what with all the other (bad) news coming out of the European industry at the moment it made us think “where did it all go wrong?” First, let’s re-iterate. […]

Lately I have been doing a lot of 15 and 20 second advertising spots that get shown on the massive (19m x 4m) City Gateway Media screen in Manchester Piccadilly. It is a unique screen due to its dimensions and from a design perspective that poses a number of challenges. The closest parallel I can […]

Tom Bulford / The Penny Sleuth, a very well respected analyst / broker / trader / journalist wrote today about what he sees as the continuing problem with the UK’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM). He is basically saying that AIM has not delivered what it promised… And this is a problem for the exchange… They […]

There’s a great article by Joanna Perry over at Retail Week entitled “Through the looking glass” where she explores in more depth the Carphone Warehouse story we started last week. Some interesting points that come out of her story… Carphone Warehouse has chosen to put the system on a timer that turns the software on […]

Two months ago we made mention that we were adding (INGG.L) Inspired Gaming Group PLC to our ‘watch list’ following the UK’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) and said… Inspired Gaming Group PLC are we believe currently testing a number of screen initiatives in the leisure industry sector and in the next month or two will […]