Archive for January, 2009

3D Holocubes For Rent

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Even though we like the concept shown here we are not sure who would stump up UK PDS 500 a day to rent these in UK which is the pricing quote in the press release we launched from PSP last Friday. People need to figure out (in fact, No! people need to be shown!!!) how […]

Europe’s Largest Specialist AV Distributor Chooses signagelive

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

If you are going to sign up distributors and resellers you may as well sign up big ones. It was announced last last week that Midwich, described as ‘Europe’s largest, award-winning, specialist AV distributor*’ has struck a distribution deal with signagelive. Lee Baker, business manager for large format displays at Midwich, told us “Software as […]

Sticky: PlayMegaPhone At ISE DOOH Business Conference

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

There are some things that you can only experience at events, shows and conferences (audio systems and sound showers for example) or in an actual live environment and MegaPhone is absolutely one of those things that just needs to be experienced. We saw them last year in Berlin AND they were able to engage the […]

More News On GymslipTV

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Finally we got out hands on the official press release with regard the merger in the UK this week between Subtv, the national youth media network, and Gym Screen Media. They make strange bedfellows we believe but in the end it doesn’t matter what we think, it will all be down to Kinetic and / […]

Two UK Networks Merge To Become GymslipTV

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

In what must rank as one of the weirdest ‘mergers’ for some time, news reaches us that SubTV and Gym ScreenMedia are to merge. The new business is to be called Media 42 Group (not GymslipTV then?, Ed) and will be led by Subtv’s founder Peter Miles as CEO. We don’t think that SubTV can […]

HOUSEKEEPING – New Banner Advertisers 11

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We would like to welcome and thank both Daktronics and Dynamax Technologies who are advertising with us for the next couple of months. Celebrating their 40th birthday, Daktronics who have been ranked as the world’s leading supplier of large-screen LED video displays since 2001, will of course be at ISE, Amsterdam – Booth Number: #1II01 […]

Is That Heather Locklear?

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

At first glance we thought this was Heather Locklear AND then noticed it was a Virtual Mannequin. It’s nice to see that 3M took up our suggestion of calling this a Virtual Mannequin rather than the cumbersome ‘Virtual Brand Ambassador’ that they have previously used Heather (it wasn’t ‘Heather Locklear’ by the way but we […]

We’ve Gone Digital

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Lou Giacalone, Jr., SVP, Digital at Titan Worldwide sent us some nice pictures (we liked this one shown – note the green on black typeface) and wanted to let us know how happy they are with their CoolSign platform. Lou told us exclusively “CoolSign is installed at CTA and has been performing well and we […]

An Open Letter From YCD Multimedia

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

An open letter from Barry Salzman, Chief Executive Officer in response to our post yesterday. Reprinted below in its entirety… Dear Adrian Yes, we like everybody else like to be number ONE, but only in listings where the criteria are relevant. In our business, we think of relevance as the ability to have a measurable […]

Window Innovation Continues In Oxford Street

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

With the high footfall of Oxford Street, London it is fast becoming both a test bed AND a centre of innovation for retail digital signage – not signage in stores necessarily BUT signage in the windows facing out onto the street definitely! At first it was the likes of MediaZest with mobile phone network retailers […]