Archive for July, 2008

Sony’s (Almost) Powerpoint Presentation

Monday, July 28th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

After writing rather glowingly about the layout, design and signage of a number of Sony Style stores just a few weeks ago, see “Sony Style Store, Barcelona – Playstation Area“, we have to say how disappointed we are having now seen a number of Sony retail ‘branded fixtures’. This one we saw over the weekend […]

PRI Quarterly Retail Analytics: Q3 Newsletter Preview

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here’s a preview of the Platt Retail Institute‘s Q3 Newsletter (July 2008)… Don’t Count on a Robust 2008 Selling Season Platt Retail Institute predicts that the economy will continue to remain weak for most of the summer and into the fall. Look for a recovery during the first half of 2009. We anticipate both back-to-school […]

Heineken Brand Store, Amsterdam

Saturday, July 26th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Following on from our popular (detailed) post about the SFR flag ship store in Paris we will be doing another one shortly on this rather interesting Heineken Brand Store, Amsterdam where the technology is pretty much end to end Cisco. Good Cisco deployments tend to be on their (whole) ‘architectural’ approach of technology versus the […]

POPAI Guide To Digital Media In Retail (DMIR)

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

POPAI Digital in the UK released this really good guide to digital media in retail late Friday to its members. It’s well worth getting hold of a copy. We have been quite critical of POPAI in the past (the strength of the organisation in each country is pretty dependent on how good the people running […]

Posterscope In Denver

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A couple of days ago Aegis Group’s outdoor ad buyer Posterscope announced that it was expanding its U.S. operations with a new office in Denver. The new office will encompass out-of-home planning, buying, research and production as well as its specialty units, The Brand Experience and Hyperspace. Scott Blair will become managing director of the […]

PlayNetwork Forgot about Us

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Earlier this week PlayNetwork celebrated a ‘banner year’ with the following announcement – totally forgetting the most important point of the year for them was surely being voted by DailyDOOH as the Global Number 1 Music Provider in “Our Top Music Provider” posts !!! PlayNetwork Celebrates Banner Year, Announces Key Milestones and Drivers to Company […]

A Point of View in Cardiff

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Alex Hughes

These screens have recently gone up in the Queens Arcade right in the centre of Queen Street in Cardiff – a prime shopping location – obviously powered by Dynamax Point-of-View NG. Hanging screens from the ceiling in shopping malls is always difficult – location, access, visibility, glare etc. Putting this in context, there is a […]

Nintendo Branded Fixtures

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Nintendo are using over 500 digital signage branded fixtures to promote their recently launched Wii Fit product. Here we see them working with Comtech M2M and retail specialist Henley and Henley to (quite rightly) promote a “Greener Solution to In- Store Promotion” Comtech M2M have quietly been doing some great things with branded fixtures and […]

Maltese Digital Hospital

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Actually not as innovative as the author points out as there are plenty of folks who have systems that do this and plenty of world-wide installs to boot as well. Slightly interesting nonetheless… An entertaining bedside manner 25.07.2008 An Irish company is helping to spread the ‘Digital Hospital’ concept around the world with its innovative […]

PRN’s Home Entertainment Merchandising White Paper

Friday, July 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

PRN created the largest Home Electronics Network in the world, with 80-120 screens in each of over 5600 stores – that’s a very impressive 578 million shoppers a month!!! Anyway, there’s an interesting white paper from them over at http://www.prn.com/homeelectronicsnetwork.html