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For the U.S. Digital Out Of Home media sector, Danoo’s acquisition of IdeaCast and its new collaboration with National CineMedia are watershed events writes Bill Collins, Principal, DecisionPoint Media Insights… This deal breaks new ground because, to date, National CineMedia (NCM) has been the most profitable large-scale innovator in the U.S. Digital out-of-home (Digital OOH) […]

Well, if we can misquote the wonderful David Byrne let’s sing together; “Ooooh what a week that was” … on Monday the industry saw Danoo acquire Ideacast (we have a review up next week of what we think this means from Bill Collins) MId-week saw heavy debate on the merits or not of Amscreen’s rollout […]

The Vancouver Convention Centre, an architecturally stunning harbor front facility in British Columbia, recently reopened following an extensive expansion project that more than tripled its space. The Centre originally opened in July, 1987, after serving as the Canada Pavilion at the World’s Fair in 1986. The recently reconstructed facility has almost tripled its space, boasting […]

abc media’s retail media planning portal, PlanMyMedia.com which first launched last year powering The Co-operative Media Centre (CMC) was celebrated at last week’s Grocer Gold Awards. The prestigious awards ceremony saw the unique media site win Business Initiative of the Year, beating off stiff competition from six other major players in the grocery industry. Judges […]

Shares in Vision Media Group (International) plc. were suspended today due to what was described as a “difficult working capital cash flow” situation. RNS Number : 4783V Vision Media Group (Intl) PLC 10 July 2009 Press Release 10 July 2009 Suspension from Trading The Board of Vision Media Group (International) plc (AIM:VMG), advises that it […]

Pizza Hut has chosen cash machine media provider atmAd to promote its GBP 4 fixed price ‘Happy Hour’ menu to consumers in the high street, who are withdrawing cash around payday. The campaign, which originally ran on atmAd in January 2009, will feature on 750,000 transactions on cash machines across the UK that are in […]

Montreal-based Metro Inc. has selected SwedaMart, Toronto-based Sweda’s latest point-of-sale application, for its Point-of-Sale check-out screens at all Metro and Super C grocery stores across Quebec. Metro and Sweda completed a successful pilot installation and began the chain-wide SwedaMart implementation a year ago. All Super C stores and many Metro banner stores have now been […]

It looks like the industry may be about to lose one of its biggest software vendors to date, namely TELentice who, due mainly to their global deal with CBS Outdoor and the work put in over the years to meet the client’s OOH needs, were number 7 in our Top 10 Digital Signage Vendors of […]

Products of Concord, Ont.-based Omnivex Corporation, digital signage software provider, were used to manage a network of LCD and LED displays at the Swatch FIVB (Federation Internationale de Volleyball) World Championships) held in Stavanger, Norway, June 26 – July 5. Hatteland Vision and Nordic Arena partnered to implement and manage the entire system, using Omnivex […]

Dynamax Technologies told us late on Thursday that it had made the difficult decision to close its US office in New York City and also at some point soon that it will be liquidating its US business operation Dynamax LLC. Dynamax will now be supporting their US Channel and customer base directly from their UK […]