Archive for January, 2009

Dynamax Offers Stand-Alone Silverlight™ Based User Interface

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Dynamax Technologies today introduced probably the Digital Signage industry’s first stand alone Microsoft Silverlight™-Based User Interface as an add on to its POVNG application. It’s basically a rich media add-on if you like and the Silverlight-based interface provides users with immediate access to POVNG, and its full complement of digital signage network management features, remotely […]

Aldeasa Stores, Palma De Mallorca Airport, Spain

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As part of a proposed global rollout we see that Aldeasa Stores in Palma de Mallorca airport, Spain, has deployed a multichannel, multi-screen Scala based network Javier Menendez, AS Video’s CEO who deployed the network told us “Aldeasa’s marketing team was looking for a way in which to animate existing in-store offers and provide a […]

316 Wave Videos For President Elect Obama So Far

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Pixman Nomadic Media’s call for an interactive Wave of welcome for U.S. president elect Barack Obama seems to be going incredibly well. To see a really good map, globally of where all the video greetings are coming from visit http://www.jointhewave.com/ Word also reaches us that it is very LIKELY that Pixman will shortly be putting […]

Interactive And OOH M&A Report

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It makes us cringe when we think of some of the rubbish that gets passed off as ‘market research’ from folks in and around our industry (data often gathered simply by ‘cold calling’ contacts to get headline figures). Truly however some of the best data we have seen over the last few years is from […]

The Screen Forum ‘Digital Signage Conference’ Becomes…

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As a result of The Retail Business Show being cancelled, The Screen Forum’s plans to hold a ‘Digital Signage Conference’ at the event have been scuppered to. Alas, all is not lost – The Screen Forum will still be holding its ‘Breakfast Briefing’ seminar at The Hospital Club on Wednesday 28th January. The Screen Forum […]

The Sony Style Store (Le Parisien Style)

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

  What do Armani, Kenzo, Givenchy, Bulgari, the Crazy Horse Saloon and, err, Sony all have in common? Well, they all have style ! Because they all (now) have their prestigious outlets on Paris’ swanky Avenue Georges V, right next to the Champs Elysées. With 194 Sony Style Stores already open world-wide, the choice of location […]

Wow! What A Week That Was!!!

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Given enough time a post like last Saturday’s ‘The Week Ahead‘ is something we would love to be able to write on a more regular weekend basis – so much happened that we think you will agree that this past week did NOT disappoint. Let’s quickly recap what we saw… EnQii announced a new chairman […]

CEO SPOTLIGHT – Brian Craighead, Prime Digital Media, Pyrmont, NSW, Australia

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This month in the “CEO Spotlight”, we welcome Brian Craighead, Chief Executive Officer of Prime Digital Media in Pyrmont, NSW, Australia Prime Digital Media (PDM) is Australia’s leading provider of Out-of-Home Digital (OOHD) media. PDM’s digital signage networks deliver dynamic, relevant, clearly defined advertising solutions, engaging with the new ‘media savvy’ consumer at point-of-purchase in […]

SubTV For Sale, One Careful Owner

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It appears that UK interactive entertainment channel, Sub.tv might have been put up for sale by its owner. The interactive channel began broadcasting in Students’ Unions back in 2003 and now reaches 1.7 million students weekly – that’s 32% of all UK 18-24 year olds !!

Swedish Travel Agency Airtours Flagship Store

Friday, January 16th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Yet another flagship store installs digital signage as standard (we have a nice story on Monday from our Paris correspondent about The Sony Style store there) and here we see Digiframe Media deliver signagelive to the Airtours travel agency in Stockholm. It’s a 7 screen installation, both in-window and in-store and with it Airtours provides […]