Archive for May, 2009

Posterscope Takes Hyperspace To India

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Posterscope, which was launched in India last year by Aegis Group is now bringing another division, Hyperspace, to the sub-continent. Hyperspace of course was established in 2002 in the UK to help amplify out-of-home (OOH) communications using cutting-edge solutions. Haresh Nayak, general manager, Posterscope India, told us “Hyperspace will have a dedicated team to give […]

Mary Queen Of Shops

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

A couple of years ago Mary Portas, retail adviser, journalist and television presenter. was invited to speak at an excellent luxury signage summit organised and hosted by Carlipa Group in Paris. Mary is the latest guru to follow the ‘pop-up store’ trend discussed here some time ago. In London of course we already have Tyler […]

Lift A Phone And Learn

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Bell retail stores in the Canadian provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and Alberta are now being equipped with a series of passive and interactive screens using Omnivex software for point of purchase displays. When a customer picks up a phone on display, a digital screen nearby informs customers about the specific Bell product and services, while […]

Accelerate With EYE

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

EYE Corporation today launched a creative posting service for EYE’s digital assets in airports, shopping centres and universities called Accelerate which allows advertisers to submit creative changes for immediate upload. It’s designed to eradicate lead times for digital creative changes and has been developed, with new production guidelines, which will be delivered to clients across […]

Who’s Who In The Zoo

Monday, May 18th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Hats off to Litelogic who have a tongue in cheek view of their world on their newly revamped web site – we particularly liked this section.

30% Of World’s LED In Moscow?

Sunday, May 17th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Moscow reportedly used something like 30% of the world’s stock of rental LED for Saturday evening’s 54th Eurovision Song Contest Final. Barco alone supplied more than 1000 LED tiles. The event took place in the Olympiyski Indoor Arena in Moscow and viewers from around Europe tuned in to watch 42 countries compete. Every year, the […]

View From The Observation Deck

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Late last week we were very briefly in New York doing work for some investors and then had the fantastic luxury of cruising back home across the atlantic on Cunard’s Queen Mary 2 – which if you have never done is something that we would thoroughly recommend (and it’s not as expensive as you might […]

Those Storefronts Had Been Busy For A While, Actually

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

If you give the mainstream press enough time they will finally catch up with you – it was after all ONLY 53 weeks ago that we wrote about the likes of WIndowgain taking advantage of vacant storefronts. Even much earlier than that, back in September 2007 in fact is our first recorded description of ‘Vacant […]

Who’s Shooting Elephants?

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Ken Goldberg writes extremely well over on his blog ‘Hunters and Gatherers Choose Sides‘ and his views on what is happening at the moment on the solutions side of the business are well worth a read. He discusses BroadSign, Wireless Ronin and WireSpring but we’d add the following into the mix: – STRATACACHE are shooting […]

Adwalker Generation 3.0

Friday, May 15th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Unpaid salaries, a stock price that stands at less than a penny, surface deals still not complete and yet Adwalker still found time to announce ‘Generation 3 of the Adwalker Wearable Platform‘… RNS Number : 2175S Adwalker plc 14 May 2009 14 May 2009 Adwalker Plc (“Adwalker” or “the Company”) Generation 3 Release Further to […]