Archive for May, 2009

VMG Finally Does ‘International’

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Rumours earlier this week that Vision Media Group International (VMG) was to finally make use of the word ‘international’ in their name and setup a business somehow in North America – or as we confusingly said “is on the cards” – sorry, Ed is now joined by rumours of a win for their theme park […]

PRN Parent Calls Bankruptcy Rumour Groundless

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

PRN’s parent Thomson SA is spending a lot of time at the moment fighting bankruptcy rumours. Their shares recently fell as much as 20 percent when credit rating agency Moody’s raised the probability of Thomson defaulting following what Moody’s said was a failure to repay USD 92.5 million private placements due on 18th May. Thomson […]

Zoom Acquires Wellness Health Education Network

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Zoom Media & Marketing, a leading provider of targeted and digital out-of-home media and promotional programs for brand advertisers in the United States and Europe, has acquired the Wellness Health Education Network (WHEN), a 257 venue digital signage network located in high-end fitness centers across the US.. The purchase gives Zoom entrance into the health […]

CEO SPOTLIGHT – Aileen Lee, Danoo, San Francisco

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This month in the ‘CEO Spotlight’, we welcome Aileen Lee, CEO of Danoo in San Francisco . You came from a career in the world of investments. What intrigued you to enter the DOOH sector and what has compelled you to stay? Yes, I joined Danoo from Kleiner Perkins, a venture capital firm that is […]

YouTube/DailyDOOH Vlog

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

VlogRobot

Nice use of LED scroller and a LCD portrait screen at BAA’s Terminal 5 London Heathrow Airport.

European Parliament Election 2009

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Outside of Obama’s campaign we haven’t seen those seeking election make that much use of digital signage but here we see The Greens (European Free Alliance) use Cyklop™ de Cübb during May, leading up to various European Parliament and European Commission elections.

What Prats. Liar’s Poker

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Whether Starmount Systems’ Tom McGowan was referring to the high-stakes gambling game or the non-fiction, semi-autobiographical book by Michael Lewis describing the author’s experiences as a bond salesman on Wall Street during the late 1980s is probably a moot point but he was one of many people who wrote in recently – he just happened […]

Kinetic’s Tactical Posting Opportunities

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Not at all purely digital but an interesting innovation that has been running for some time in the UK now – Kinetic’s new web page for tactical posting opportunities – oh and did we say “the chance to win an iPod Touch 32gb plus £50 iTunes vouchers” Tuesday’s tactical campaigns included for example; Royal Ascot […]

Digital Signage Japan 2009

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

Chris Phelan

In just two weeks Digital Signage Japan 2009 event will begin. It is a part of the larger Interop Media Convergence event. This is the first year they have broken out Digital Signage as a seperate event so I am really looking forward to it. I will be covering the event for DailyDOOH and will […]

Signage Solution Numbers (Updated Detail)

Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Perhaps no surprise that our story ‘100,000 Not Out For Scala‘ has raised a fair amount of interest. Many wrote in about underpants and some more seriously asking about the other numbers we gave in the post. In more detail then here is our take on the industry numbers of LIVE licenses… EnQii – 15,000, […]