Archive for May, 2009

Groupe VIVA Gets $1.1 Million In Financing

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Boisbriand, Que.-based Groupe VIVA , formerly known as Sportech Media since its founding in 2002, has concluded a private $1.1-million round of financing with a group of investors including the Fonds d’investissement économique régional (FIER) Ville-Marie. This investment will help Groupe VIVA accelerate the growth of its various digital out-of-home media properties, strengthening its position […]

DigiGage 3D Reactive Real Time Worlds

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

If digital signage software had a birth place it was probably Las Vegas but the baby itself has definitely grown up in both Canada (with a solid history of misbehaving) and in Israel – where it can probably be best described as a cocky teenager 😉 DigiGage is a relatively new startup, established back in […]

GestureTek Launches The Cube

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

GestureTek Inc., the Sunnyvale, Caifornia, pioneer and a leader in gesture-controlled interactive display solutions, has launched the Cube, a portable, ‘plug-n-play’ interactive projection display unit that brings the power of motion-based interactivity to any location. The goal is to add impact and excitement to advertising, branding and promotional campaigns. The Cube is an ‘interactive display […]

China Reaches 531,100 Screens, Q1 2009

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

On-yi Lo

According to data from the Chinese Digital Outdoor Advertising Association released by Enfodesk at Analysys International, in the first quarter of 2009, the number of digital advertising screens in China has now reached 531,100. The Public subway system, commercial buildings, and train stations are still among the top three markets for Digital Out Of Home […]

EnQii Launches Global Advisory Board

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We ran Advisory Board’s when we were at Intel so know and can see the benefits of them to corporates and their customers. Here we see EnQii recruit a small advisory panel comprised of three practitioners from the global media industry: – Jerry Hill has held leadership positions in both a leading UK media owner […]

Avanti Signs Sony As Global Sponsor For DOOH Short Film Festival

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Shares in Avanti Screen Media (ASG) were up 30.77% yesterday on the announcement that they had signed Sony as a global sponsor for the DOOH Short Film Festival Stuart Pemble, of SONY Professional (Europe) told us “Working with the ‘Art by Chance Festival’ we can see how Digital Media can be used not only for […]

CBS Outdoor Mystery Posters

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

This ‘Time to Consider‘ campaign finishes today, 20th May, 2009 on the London Underground but has generated a fair amount of controversy and engaged the UK In a lot of debate (it’s been running since 20th April across 35 tube stations). Whilst we agree with CBS Outdoor (and many others) that this cross-track campaign was […]

Dance, Pilot, Dance

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

On May 14, the San Francisco office of eyemagnet and The Hyperfactory mobile marketing and advertising specialist launched and managed an innovative DOOH interactive campaign on behalf of Air New Zealand, promoting the LAX to London Heathrow sector, and a key part of Air New Zealand’s Relax to London campaign running to the end of […]

Breaking News – LG Snatches 3M’s Global Sales Manager

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

Big changes are afoot for 3M’s digital signage division.  A trusted source leaked information to me about LG’s latest new hire – Jeff Dowell – 3M’s Global Sales Manager is moving to the much leafier and greener pastures of LG’s digital signage group where he’ll be charged to further develop their digital signage business worldwide. […]

Eye Reporter 2009

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

EYE Corp’s first Eye Reporter of 2009 is as usual, polished, professional, incredibly well put together and something that you can read once and then thumb through again and again. As mentioned before it definitely deserves much wider industry distribution. In an interview with Rachel Tucker, associate director strategy with Mediavest on page 13 – […]