Archive for January, 2009
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
The smaller street enclosure folks wanting to play DOOH just don’t do themselves any favours, do they? Whether it be vertigo, iblink, GDS, BF group or others – getting them to show off to the industry some of the great things that they have been doing is like trying to get the proverbial blood out […]
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Chris Sheldrake
As we ‘twittered‘ yesterday afternoon; yes, a lot of the good gossip goes up on Twitter first, Ed – LiteLogic have removed all references to their Revolution 360 ‘spinning LED’ product from their web site. We don’t quite understand this and haven’t got a good answer from them or their CEO as to why just […]
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Chris Sheldrake
Nice article about Chris Riegel and STRATACACHE in the Dayton Daily News this week. Cornily entitled ‘(Digital) sign of the times: Stratacache expects growth‘ it’s well worth a read. It looks as though they may be ready to move into a new larger head office, either in Dayton or Texas (note that Boston, Montreal, Salt […]
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
It was an educational day at the JADN digital day conference in Montreal on Tuesday, with all speakers consistently on a high note, each tackling different topics but all teaching in their own way. Why educate? Because in Canada, digital out-of-home has a long way to go before maturity, but there are a growing number […]
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Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
It’s good to see Coca-Cola advertising their new vitamin enriched water in our industry sector. The product, called ‘Glaceau revive’, provided 4 hours worth of branded content to the SubTV network of screens in Student Unions across the UK. SubTV recently merged of course with GymScreen Media creating a new umbrella organisation called Media 42 […]
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
New UK media sales startup Digicom’s web site is up, see http://www.digicomoutofhome.com/
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
All of a sudden the so-called free digital signage software (in the majority of cases it should be referred to as ‘crippled‘ – i.e. free because features are disabled and the software is limited in scope) has become rather expensive. s3mer, inc. who we last wrote about in May 2008 has just announced its pricing. […]
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Following the departure last year of Andrew Oldham, CBS Outdoor today announced the appointment of Chris Wyatt as interim UK chief executive. Chris Wyatt, former international president of Blockbuster, will lead CBS Outdoor’s UK business for a finite period until International chief executive Clive Punter finds a permanent leader for the UK business.
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Chris Sheldrake
Those clever chaps at never.no – one of our Ten Companies To Watch In 2009 have just sent us one of the most innovative PDF brochures we have seen for some time. Describing what they do as “connecting broadcasters, brands, outdoor media owners and digital screen networks with online and mobile consumers” this Norwegian company […]
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Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Congratulations to Immedia whose Production Department recently won 2 very prestigious Vox awards. The Vox award is recognized throughout the UK Radio Industry as a valuable acknowledgement of creative excellence. The first award was in the category ‘Use of Humour‘ and Immedia won this for their Lego Indiana Game advert, written by Jon Lovell and […]
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