Archive for January, 2009

More On The New CoolSign Business

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The guys over at CS Software Holdings, LLC have been GREAT at answering all of the questions that people have been asking, we know for example that Barnaby Page at screens.tv reached out to them as well as us and was duly rewarded, as we were, with polite, timely, informative replies – way to go […]

Avanti Screenmedia Cautious On 2009 Outlook

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As well as late Friday’s news on the two ‘Avanti Screenmedia – Contract Wins‘, Avanti took the opportunity Friday afternoon to release a further RNS entitled ‘BRIEF-Avanti Screenmedia cautious on ’09 outlook’ which basically bullet pointed the following: – Remains cautious as to the prospects for 2009 Is continuing to seek essential short term funding […]

Creating Competitive Advantage With In-Store Digital Signage

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Stuart Armstrong, EnQii and Digital Signage Association President is set to speak next week at the National Retail Federation’s Annual Convention & Expo at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Centre, New York City. His 30 minute presentation entitled ‘Creating Competitive Advantage with In-Store Digital Signage‘ starts at 3.00pm and is, we are told, designed to […]

Avanti’s New Mall Contracts

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

News just coming through that Avanti Screenmedia Group plc. has signed new contracts with Blueco Limited, the management company of Bluewater and also with Ivista Limited, for advertising sales in Queens Arcade in Cardiff. We have covered Ivista in the past, most relevantly in our story, with pictures ‘Ivista Rollout Queens Arcade, Cardiff‘ In an […]

There’s Probably No God

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

‘There’s Probably No God’ or should that be ‘The Atheist Bus Journey’ – let’s see… A number of the big outdoor folks in the UK flagged up this campaign to us late last year when it first ran – there was some controversy as to whether media owners should have run the campaign but luckily […]

UKTI’s Support Package At ISE For UK Attendees

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

With only a few weeks to go til’ ISE this news seems a bit late but it may well be worth posting it just in case some UK companies find it of use… UKTI are offering a support package at ISE for UK attendees. The package includes… Pre-show marketing using targeted html emails to selected […]

signagelive Say ‘Next Stop Canada’

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We figured something was happening when earlier in the week we wrote ‘signagelive Enters BroadSign’s Back Yard‘ after spotting a new web site aimed at the region by said vendor – anyway signagelive released the following statement today… Signagelive has teamed up with a new Canadian division of KCSP. The parent company based in Poland […]

ADFLOW Networks At NRF’S 98TH Annual Convention & EXPO

Friday, January 9th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Toronto-based ADFLOW Networks Inc., provider of digital signage and interactive kiosk technology in the self-service vertical market, will exhibit its latest interactive sales-assist station at this year’s Retail BIG Show, NRF’s 98th Annual Convention & Expo, Jan. 11- 14, at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, in New York. ADFLOW Networks’ interactive sales-assist solutions aim […]

Bringing You News From Brazil

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

The company Ya Mogu was created in Rio de Janeiro some three years ago by serial entrepreneur, Roberto Bradford. Daniel Benford, creative director was one of the first recruits, straight from video school, and finance director Alberto Montezuma, who has an impressive track record with multinationals both in & out of Brazil has just joined […]

Goodbye Planar Subscribers :(

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It’s very sad but it looks like we have to say goodbye to all the Planar employees who were, up until today, part of our loyal and valued subscriber base. Quite literally we have had almost a dozen email alerts today so far (yes, we get told when you sign up AND when you have […]