Archive for November, 2008

Yan Huybrechts Re-Emerges

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Airport Express, the trade sales and marketing alliance for Gatwick and Heathrow Express and Heathrow Connect trains today announced the appointment of Yan Huybrechts (shown above) as the new head of Non-Fare Revenue in the organisation. Yan for many, many years was a key figure in the early digital signage space but seemed to have […]

(DSN) India Latest Investment By Neo Advertising

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Digital Signage Network (DSN) India is the latest company to receive investment from Neo Advertising we believe. Exact terms of the deal have not yet been made public. Digital Signage Networks India was founded in 2006 / 2007 with a strong management team including two Wharton graduates and is headquartered in Mumbai. In a few […]

HOUSEKEEPING – Featured Articles

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We are always looking for ways to improve the site and in an editorial meeting the other day we all agreed that the Most Popular Posts (MPP) column (used to be shown on the right hand side of the blog just before the ‘Recent Entries’ column) was probably not as useful as it once was. […]

Audi Forum, Ingolstadt, Germany

Friday, November 14th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

This installation was one of the finalists in Viscom Franfurt’s Best Practice Awards (by the way no one has told us yet who or what won). SCREEN. New Technologies were responsible for the hardware and the installation and you can see their 42” SUNLIGHT LCDs in the picture gallery above. This is a Scala installation […]

VMG Sells TrainFX Division

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

It has taken them a hell of a long time to do this disposal and for a short time even, we thought they might be stupid enough to hold onto it BUT we are pretty much certain that FINALLY Vision Media Group (VMG) International have disposed of said business unit. More will be made clear […]

Imagesound Announces Staff Lay Offs

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Yesterday we believe, Imagesound called all of its employees together in their Chesterfield head office, only to tell them that there were going to be a number of redundancies within the company. We also believe that Mood Media has, perhaps more quietly, started shedding some staff as well. The retail and leisure music sector has […]

Maurizio G Caruso Moved To BITS

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Maurizio G Caruso whom many of you in Europe may well know from his days at Hughes Network Systems, told us yesterday that since April 2008 he has been Chief Operating Officer at Business Information Transmission Systems (BITS) based at their offices in Aldermaston, Berkshire. BITS is likely owned by the same parents as the […]

InfoComm Asia 2008, Hong Kong

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Following on from our post yesterday ‘The DailyDOOH 2009 Tour‘, Scala wrote in to tell us that we missed off next week’s InfoComm Asia 2008 event being held in Hong Kong (19th to 21st November 2008). Scala will be there on booth # 5C1-01.

CBS Outdoor’s Large LED, Westfield, London

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

There will be at some time soon, three large LEDs at Westfield, London that CBS Outdoor will use for advertising along with their Pods. Shown above is the only LED currently installed – conveniently enough caught on camera whilst showing the CBS Outdoor Alive logo. Whilst we were on site we saw a commercial for […]

This Is Definitely Not Stonehenge

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We thought we ought to enter this photograph into a photo competition – what do you think? We can just imagine the caption “CBS Outdoor’s Pod stands there in the morning sunshine casting shadows over the south entrance” !!!! Contractually we expect (we do not know for a fact) that the folks who put these […]