Archive for January, 2009

Press Briefings / Meeting Arrangements At ISE

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Veronica Esbona, Director, Home Entertainment & Pro A/V at Wall Street Communications is offering exhibitors at ISE a useful service in setting up appointments with any of their clients at the show. never.no, who are one of our Top Companies To Watch In 2009 will be there… never.no connects broadcasters, brands, outdoor media owners, and […]

JCDecaux’s Goo The Egg

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Every year in the UK in the lead up to Easter, it’s a bit of a tradition (okay, it’s a BIG tradition) that the chocolate manufacturer Cadbury do a number of innovative / intriguing and sometimes infuriating adverts for their Creme Egg product. This 4 week out-of-home specials campaign that started Monday 12th January, with […]

Toyota’s IQ Animated Ad

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

City Gateway Media kindly sent us this picture of the current Toyota campaign running on a lot of the digital screens in the UK at the moment. According to Posterscope, it’s a multi-format and multi-environment campaign for the launch of Toyota’s new IQ model. It’s an animated ad that allows consumers to see the car […]

Any Screen. Anywhere. Anytime

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We notice that C-nario Visual Solutions have re-vamped their web site as well, see http://www.c-nario.com/

KFC RFP?

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We thought that the folks at Maler Corp and TELentice had this contract nailed down but word reaches us that there may well be an RFP out already for KFC in the UK. In our story last October ‘KFC Digital Menu Board Pilots, London‘ we made mention that ‘The pilot has been running in 12 […]

Net Display Systems Stand At ISE

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Here’s the Net Display Systems stand that they will be using at ISE, Amsterdam. Net Display Systems can be found on Stand 12B79.

Another Agreement For Amscreen

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Sir Alan Sugar’s digital signage company, Amscreen announced another client win this week, this time a deal with the Grauniad. It’s basically a well engineered partnership with Guardian News & Media, publishers of The Gaurdain and The Observer newspapers, following a successful trial with the company in WHSmith stores. Sir Alan Sugar told us (fresh […]

EnQii Win Big, Cisco And 3M Lose

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

An announcement has just come out that PDM in Australia have selected EnQii as their digital signage solution. Previous incumbent was 3M. We believe that the final selection process was head to head between EnQii and Cisco. It seems that Cisco lose to STRATACACHE in the big US accounts and to EnQii now in APAC. […]

Pixman’s Tribal Cast Service Welcomes Obama

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Montreal-based Pixman Nomadic Media has called on its partners in more than 30 countries worldwide to encourage their citizens to join in an interactive Wave of welcome and hope to incoming U.S. president Barack Obama. jointhewave.com is an original idea from Pixman, which specializes in mobile marketing and nomadic advertising. “We were sitting around at […]

Pixman’s UGC Welcome To Barack Obama

Wednesday, January 14th, 2009

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

Adrian was kind enough to let me – “an American” write the follow up post on Pixman’s latest gimmick – i.e.’Together Let’s Welcome Obama‘ Objectively – I took a close look at the technical elements of the this promotion. Pixman setup a web-site that asks you to make your own videos and upload them to […]