Archive for May, 2009

JCDecaux Q1 Revenues 2009

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC), announced this week its revenues for the three months ended 31 March, 2009 – revenues decreased by 11.9% to €424.6 million compared to €482.2 million in the same period last year. JCDecaux said that market conditions further deteriorated in the first quarter of 2009 leading to weaker demand and subsequent […]

Care Media Shouts Green

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Easy to be cynical about yet another announcement from a digital network about how green they are BUT hey! it’s one of our industry’s true USPs so why the hell not shout about it. Here we see EnQii powered CARE Media’s new initiative saving advertisers money and helping the environment by going paperless. Beginning 1st […]

Mobile Helps Shorten Lineups

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Rogers Wireless and Toronto agency, The Hive, are helping concert goers skip long lineups – we would call them queues in Europe Ed – at the k-os Yes! Karma Tour, presented by urMusic. urMusic is a multifaceted music brand and an online destination that Rogers mobile subscribers can visit to buy concert tickets, digital music, […]

Mike Collins To Head Titan In Dallas

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Mike Collins has joined Titan Worldwide as its vice-president general manager for the Dallas region. He joins Titan from Outdoor Media Advisors and the College Billboard Network, which he founded in 2004. Based in Dallas, Collins is charged with increasing sales and contributing to the overall growth of the market. As well as focusing on […]

Consumer Traffic Patterns

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

STRATACACHE announced Thursday a new service to track and document in store / in branch (we are talking retail banking here) consumer traffic patterns. If what we hear on our US trips is correct it is this particular solution that has helped won them a couple of big (as yet unannounced) new deployments. This new […]

Captivate Guided Online By PQ Media Research

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We are seeing a surge of announcements from US networks with regard surveys, research and metrics at the moment, another one this week was Captivate Network who announced its first steps in its endeavor to provide its clients with the most robust consumer metrics. Guided by custom PQ Media market research findings, Captivate Network added […]

Will Work For Love

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Next week sees the start of a new regular monthly feature called ‘Will Work For Love‘ where our North American Editor, Gail Chiasson explores peoples’ workplaces and working lives. First up is Gunnar Kämpgen from BookingDooH based in Geneva. Watch out for the post on Tuesday and please, tell us what you think.

HOUSEKEEPING – New Contributors 3

Thursday, May 7th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We are always on the look out for new contributors who can offer DailyDOOH and its readers a unique view on the Digital Out Of Home industry as well as geographical coverage. It gives us great pleasure then that we welcome on board two new contributors; Leoš Smutný based in Prague who works for Supermedia […]

Mermaid Wins Big EU Tender

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Mermaid technology a/s has won a really nice EU tender for the supply of an infotainment system for the S-trains owned and run by the Danish National Rail Company (DSB). This is by far the largest digital signage contract ever signed in Denmark, involving as it does; hardware, software and services totaling something like DKK […]

First Report – Digital Signage Expo 2009, Essen

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

The three-day event opened on Tuesday May 5th at the ‘ Messe Essen’, in Essen, Germany. According to Jens Schindler, Managing Director of show organisers hf media & events ”This year, we are expecting the same number of visitors to the fair as last year. The more than 150 exhibitors include companies operating at an […]