Archive for March, 2009

#ScreenMediaExpo ‘Digital Signage Expert Tour’

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Elizabeta Petakovic at Minicom Digital Signage has told us about this ‘Digital Signage Expert Tour’ that they are organising at Screen Media Expo Europe. Elizabeta tells us “The tour will cover all steps and complexity necessary in planning and rolling out a digital signage project. Participants shall get an holistic overview of the digital signage […]

Victory Acquisition Does ‘What It Says On The Tin’

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Earlier this week TouchTunes Corporation and Victory Acquisition Corp. announced a ‘Definitive Merger Agreement’ and whilst the deal is still subject to stockholder and regulatory approval it should give one of America’s larger Out-of-Home Interactive Entertainment Networks access to new equity. Pursuant to the agreement, Victory will acquire TouchTunes for 33 million shares of Victory […]

PRN’s Checkout TV Achieves 60% Advertiser Recall

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Premier Retail Networks, Inc. (PRN) announced earlier this week that advertiser recall for its Checkout TV Network surged to 60 percent in 2008, up 18 percentage points from a similar study conducted in 2007. The 2008 Checkout TV Recall Study, conducted by GfK Custom Research North America in six major retail markets, revealed an average […]

OneMedia Wins 65 Doctor Surgeries

Thursday, March 26th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We believe that OneMedia, the joint venture business between David Dalzell from ONELAN, Chris Wood and Rob Sheriff from Red Solutions has won a project with South Birmingham NHS to supply 65 doctors surgeries with a patient messages delivery system. ONELAN will be supplying the hardware, OneMedia will be monitoring the systems from their Henley […]

What Exactly Is A Venture Execution Business?

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We know what all the creditors (and litigators against) i-vu Corporation will think (and undoubtedly tell us) but what exactly is a Venture Execution business? We ask only because we see that Mike Anstey, who at the time made such a big think about raising USD 40 million* for his business only to run it […]

JCDecaux ‘Walls Of Video Screens’, Toulouse Airport

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

JCDecaux Airport France has won a 7-year contract for indoor and outdoor advertising operations at Toulouse Blagnac Airport. The contract will begin on April 1 2009 and follows a consultation process by Toulouse Blagnac Airport. Toulouse Blagnac is France’s fourth largest airport with more than 6 million passengers every year. JCDecaux Airport, already responsible for […]

Lights Out At NetFaze?

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Have the lights quietly gone out at Netfaze Technologies? Seems to us like it’s another ad network that’s quietly gone to debtor in possession – even maybe as much as several months ago. NetFaze was a Scala network in casinos with some wayfinding and ad sales for Timeshare condos. Looks like the lights are out […]

CBS Outdoor Streams Red Carpet Footage

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

The Universal Pictures UK premiere of Richard Curtis’s new comedy ‘The Boat That Rocked’ was held in London’s Leicester Square this week and a campaign planned and booked by Mediacom which ran alongside it captivated fans and passers-by with the streaming of exclusive red carpet footage onto 25 LCD screens surrounding the square. One minute […]

Titan Outdoor Wins Marleybone Station

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Late last week Titan Outdoor announced that it has won the advertising contract for Chiltern Railways – effectively giving them overground control of Marleybone station from rivals CBS Outdoor. Bearing in mind what a great digital job Titan have done with other overground mainline railway stations in London (especially Victoria station) we are assured that […]

Alior Bank Interactive Multi-Touchpoint Digital Network

Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

What is it with weather in retail banking digital signage systems? How many times do we have to say it’s lazy, pointless, irrelevant ? Anyway, rant over. Scala sent us these pictures of an interactive multi-touchpoint digital media network for Alior Bank in Poland put together by DDS Poland, a Scala Certified Partner. In the […]