Archive for October, 2008

Wirespring To Release All-In-One Product

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

Some interesting news has been leaked from the city of Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The hometown of “Sir” Bill Gerba – one of our industry’s more well-known and respected bloggers. Bill of course, is also the CEO of WireSpring, makers of the FireCast digital signage platform Anyway I believe that the team at Wirespring have been […]

Former CBS CEO Launches DIGICOM

Friday, October 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Media Week published this story first and did a good job of breaking the news but we met these folks under NDA a few weeks ago and were pretty impressed. **We are really not sure about the name ‘DIGICOM’ though – there’s something not quite right about it, especially with the media background and skills […]

Show Us Your Stands

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Did you know that we have an almost unhealthy fascination with stand designs and pre-built stands? Don’t ask us why, we just do!!! Here’s remote media’s signagelive stand for ISE, Amsterdam – they will be in the new Digital Signage Zone in Hall 12 on Stand B84. This show will be the first time that […]

Media Buying / Planning Tools

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Today in London sees the launch of abc media’s PlanMyMedia.com and in just over a month’s time Neo Advertising will finally launch the much anticipated Booking DOOH – a free online market place where DOOH Network owners and Media buyers will hopefully meet to do business also. We have to say that we are very […]

UK Marketing Managers On The Move

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Earlier this month Steve Cox, previously at CBS Outdoor, joined Titan as UK Marketing Director and Stephanie Gibson, previously at IPM has joined EYE, as UK Marketing Manager. Both have reached out to us – yes even this early in their appointments and shown us around their new domains. Steve was kind enough to organise […]

Ecast Ready To Roll Out 1,000 IQ Units

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Ecast is expecting to have 1,000 of its new Ecast IQ touchscreen media products across the U.S. with the next 12 months – likely starting with sports arenas, since we hear it is already negotiating with two unnamed arenas. The company launched its new Ecast IQ touchscreen media product at the Digital Signage Show/KioskCom Self […]

I Wish I Hadn’t Said That

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Despite BroadSign’s insistence on their ‘distance’ to the Petters Group, it’s surely no coincidence that the recent round of layoffs came just a week or so after Petters Group ran into trouble. Several of those folks who were let go in Montreal recently told us that the reason they were given for the layoffs was […]

Digital Media in Retail 2.0

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Blimey we are growing to hate the term ‘Digital Media in Retail‘ – a UK / POPAI term it seems and absolutely horrid cos’ if there is one thing we have learnt about all ‘digital’ when it is out-of-home, whether it be high impact, retail or captive audience is that it thrives when it co-exists […]

Missing The Full Story On Digital Outdoor

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Fair play to Media Week who yesterday published the letter we sent to them last week – unless you have super dooper eye sight you won’t be able to read the scan above, so here is a transcript below… Dear Kim, Digital outdoor advertising is INDEED a brave new world but it would be good […]

You’ve Got Me For 20 Minutes

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This is quite simple, whilst it costs between Euro 1,200 and 1,300 to attend the ISE DOOH Business Conference, 2nd – 3rd Feb 2009 (depending on how quickly you book) this is going to be the first must-attend event of the year for ad agencies, brands, media buyers, planners and screen networks. First of all […]