Archive for February, 2009

Adspace Outsources Network Management

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Rumour is that AdSpace Digital Mall Network may have decided to outsource management of their entire digital signage network to Creative Realities Inc (CRI). CRI is owned by private equity firm Pegasus Capital Advisors. Pegasus of course are also an investor in the new CoolSign. This is bad news for the AdSpace employees in Emeryville […]

‘Sexiest Cable’ Awards

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Whilst many UK delegates to ISE, Amsterdam were left stranded by severe weather conditions, 460 guests out of the expected 650 made it through to The InAVation Awards on Monday 2nd February 2009 in the Ballrooms of the Hotel Okura, Amsterdam. Not surprising really that at an A/V event 18 out of the 19 award categories […]

OVAB Adds Two New Members

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

OVAB Europe has been a little quietly recently, though we believe there may well be a big joint OVAB ‘conflab’ sometime soon in New York but good to see that OVAB on the whole continues to make progress and attract quality new members, this time around; ADCENTRICITY and Ecast. Both companies of course join a […]

Electroluminescent Technology Example

Thursday, February 5th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

It’s not exactly digital but we liked it and for Mercedes-Benz Canada Inc., in Toronto, they are believed to be the first luxury vehicle distributor in Canada to use electroluminescent technology in a billboard advert. The automobile company is using it on a billboard within a campaign to launch its new 2010 GLK-Class premium SUV. […]

What’s Astral up To This Time?

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’re expecting big things from Astral Media Outdoor next week. While the Montreal-based company is keeping developments close to its chest, it has booked no less a venue than the Bell Centre (home rink of the Montreal Canadiens hockey club and major concert site) Feb. 10, to unveil what it claims is the launch of […]

Digital Sinage ‹sic› Europe

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Looks like the Kiosk Europe folks are continuing with their efforts to cover Digital Signage – they had a stand in the Digital Signage zone at ISE but we had to laugh at the signage on the stand – shown above!!! The event is in Essen 5th, 6th and 7th May 2009.

ONELAN’s Interactive Poster

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

ONELAN had a lot of good things on their stand in the Digital Signage zone at ISE, we particularly liked this interactive / touch-screen 6-Sheet sort of poster.

CBS Outdoor’s AdMiles

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Interesting initiative from CBS Outdoor in launching a loyalty scheme – called ‘AdMiles’, to help ad budgets travel further. Tim Bleakley, Managing Director Sales & Marketing of CBS Outdoor told us “We want to reward our customers’ loyalty and make their advertising work harder for them. This loyalty scheme is a reflection of the hard-working […]

Top 10 Digital Signage Vendors 2009

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

For completeness sake, here is the top 10 we published on Monday this week, taken (ripped out of the Powerpoint) from our presentation at the ISE DOOH Business conference. We will be following up on this post a couple of times over the next 10 days (i.e. when we are back from Amsterdam and before […]

Live Tweets from ISE 2009, Amsterdam (Weds)

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

Jorge Garcia de Bustos

Some tweets on Wednesday whilst we were at the show itself… @signagelive Have to agree with Jason completely. ISE2nd day was GREAT, we back now but could easily have spent 1 more day there during the Wednesday session Panasonic to cut 15,000 jobs worldwide – NOTgood for those affected but hopefully we will see the […]