Archive for March, 2009

Is SubPostMasterTV Up For Sale?

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Rumour in the UK at the moment is that MIS owned SubPosteMasterTV (more accurately called The Community Network since they renamed / re-branded back in July 2007) is up for sale.

Finnish JumboScreens

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Mauri Lehojärvi, CEO, Infomedia Suomi Ims Oy/Ds Dynamics sent us this picture from the city of Jyvaskyla in Finland. Mauri tells us that his company is building a network of 10 to 15 Jumboscreens in the biggest cities in Finland. This particular LED is 10mm and 2.7 x 5.8 metres.

Loading Loyalty via Mobile

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Boulder, Colorado-based, Mocapay (www.mocapay.com) which offers mobile gift, loyalty, and marketing services, has announced that ink! Coffee, a specialty coffee retailer with multiple stores throughout the greater Denver metro area and Aspen, has selected Mocapay to implement and operate its mobile gift program. ink! Coffee is the second company to ink with Mocapay since the […]

Music Software From EnQii

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Seems like EnQii is not finished with its EnGage software announcements just yet as (literally) we have heard – wait for it, there’s a pun coming, Ed of a new in-store audio add on module. Probably called something like Tempo we believe that it will allows users to produce custom music profiles to compliment their […]

Per Haakon Stenhaug Joins Urban Media

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Urban Media has recently recruited Per Haakon Stenhaug away from Clear Channel Norway. At Clear Channel he had been Sales Director for eight years. He joins Urban Media as Sales and Marketing director

Dove Launch Digital Out-of-Home Campaign

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Personal care brand Dove (that’s soap etc. to the majority of us) launched a digital out-of-home campaign on Monday promoting its new HairMinimising Anti-Perspirant Deodorant – if the name of that wasn’t enough to put you off it’s worthwhile catching the really nice graphics created by Grand Visual. The national campaign spans Titan Outdoor’s D6s, […]

Screen Media Expo Europe Attendees

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Rumour is that Screen Media Expo Europe has already got over 2,000 people registered to attend the event in London in April. With 6 conferences and summits all happening at once, noting how successful DSE was, and with some really interesting exhibitors all lined up we can well believe those figures and would hazard a […]

Grand Visual Sponsors DOOH Summit

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Hats off to Grand Visual who are putting their hand in their pocket and sponsoring the upcoming DOOH Media Summit in association with Media Week that is running alongside Screen Media Expo Europe 2009. Taking place on 7th April 2009, the day will include a series of seminars plus keynote presentations from Neil Morris, managing […]

Festival Of Media Awards OOH Shortlist

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The shortlist for the Out of Home Media Owner Of The Year at the forthcoming Festival Of Media Awards are as follows: – MediaMountain (Europe, specifically; Yomedia, Resorts: Livigno/Mottolino, Verbier, Flims Laax, Sölden, Tignes) Clear Channel Outdoor (Global) CBS Outdoor (UK and Ireland) The actual award ceremony takes place in Valencia, Spain 19th to 21st […]

Winding Up Order Against VMG

Monday, March 9th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

If you are on the UK’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM), have a reputation in being slow paying people, have a history of litigation then it’s no surprise AND seems to mean very little these days but here we see a winding up order having been issued against Vision Media Group International last week… Publication Date: […]