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Ströer Out-of-Home Media AG announced last week that it was successfully holding its own against the so called ‘advertising crisis’. In the 2008 business year, Group sales declined only slightly, by 3 percent, to EUR 493 million compared to the previous year – operational EBITDA fell from EUR 118 million to EUR 103 million. However, […]

It seems that EK3’s CEO is not being entirely honest with his employees. Word reached us yesterday that in a conference call with employees he VEHEMENTLY denied our story of 16th June ‘EK3 Up For Sale‘ and according to sources close to the company was quite upset that it had even been mentioned. Those EK3 […]

The Strategy Institute’s Digital SIgnage Technology Summit and InfoComm 2009 was definitely a learning experience for us (you thought we thought we knew it all didn’t you?) At the former we heard unprompted mentions of X20, Tightrope and Visix by folks doing case studies and on the show floor at the latter we got to […]

The Scala stand was the first thing you saw when you entered the Digital Signage Zone. It was big but not over the top. As we wrote elsewhere it was probably a great place for them to entertain their VARs. It was (seriously) packed every time we walked past it. Scala had all their new […]

STRATACACHE and WireSpring probably had the correct sized booths for the audience / footfall in the Digital Signage Zone at InfoComm and as Bill Gerba said to us, as he is a local business (3 hour drive south of Orlando) he doesn’t need many leads to convert to make it worthwhile!! The Scala stand was […]

True to their word, Samsung had one portrait screen (shown in the right of this picture) with a Trumedia iCapture audience measurement device above it and a smaller landscape screen (shown in the left of the picture) displaying the audience measurement results. It seemed to work well enough, spotting male / female but didn’t seem […]

We visited the Samsung stand every day whilst we were at InfoComm – so much was there to see and we were keen to look at a number of the exhibits in a bit more detail (the bus shelter for example and the giant video wall). This Samsung mobile phone retail fixture was tucked away […]

These guys Primeview make screens but we loved their (friend’s) bespoke interactive camera system they were showing off also. Camera underneath the screen ‘read’ a number of cards that you put in front of it, then displayed a tiled window on the display. You could move the ‘card’ around and move the window on the […]

The retailer who wants in on the digital signage world but doesn’t have a lot of money or require a lot of flash and video may find his needs met with express Lite, the newest product coming out of Seattle-based .advancedMethod and due on the market in about 60 days. express Lite, the sibling of […]

There was a certain fascination from us with this Litefast MINI product at InfoComm 2009 – ideal for checkouts, counters, tables and shop window design of course.