Archive for August, 2009

Largest LED In UK Sports Venue

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

The 4th npower Ashes Test starts today and those folks lucky enough to be in the crowd at the Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground (Yorkshire County Cricket Club) will see a giant 16m (w) x 6.4m (h) 102m2 digiLED Ld10S screen – the largest LED video display in a UK sports venue we believe. This permanent […]

DOOH Media Delivery Guarantees

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Australia’s digital out-of-home media operator, Inlink, has put their money where their mouth is and offered a hard cash, dollar for dollar return guarantee to advertisers for any short fall on contracted minimum campaign delivery. They ask “Is this the first Digital Out Of Home media delivery guarantee?” Inlink claim to have developed sophisticated digital […]

Jill Lee Joins Zoom Media

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Zoom Media or Zoom Media Marketing as we believe they are likely to be called in the UK have finally taken their UK media sales in-house after their acquisition last September of Clubcom. It can’t have been a surprise to many that they have done this (or that they have recruited Jill Lee, who is […]

DailyDOOH’s (Late) Birthday Gifts

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Ah! The wonders of the postal system! You can send an e-mail across the world in micro-seconds, chat or text directly between North America and Europe, send a message by mobile phone to a digital screen with immediate results BUT try to send a parcel by regular post and – Oh! Oh! This is the […]

Why I’m Going To Total Media (Spain)

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Further to the post ‘Why Digital SIgnage By VISCOM‘ I just thought I’d mention that I’ll be going to Total Media 2009 in Madrid at the end of September BUT not to Viscom and I’ll be posting some stories from there. I’m going to Total Media because word is from the locals that it is […]

Next Year’s Top 10 Our Notes

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As promised on Saturday here are some of our notes in relation to the work we are doing in preparation for our ‘Top 10 Digital Signage Vendors 2010‘ list which will be published, as usual, in early 2010. First let’s look at three folks who might just be in with a chance of gaining a […]

Yet Another Content Company

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Great news for us (and the industry) is that yet another content company, this time based in Amsterdam we believe is rumoured to be launching as soon as next week. Good news for the industry because it all adds to the ‘eco-system‘ we have been harping on about recently and good news for us as […]

67% US Residents Saw DOOH In Last Month

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Significant good news from  a new study released Wednesday (Aug. 5) from respected US research firm Arbitron confirms that Digital Out-Of-Home video is not only becoming widespread in the US, but also that recall rates are high. The Arbitron Out-of-Home Digital Video Display Study 2009 study reveals that approximately 155 million (67 percent of) U.S. […]

Interview With Kelsey Group CEO

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Dylan Jones, Jones Digital Media

Local and vocal; how the influential Kelsey Group predicts the future of DOOH lies in consolidation and streamlining the industry.

Why Digital Signage By VISCOM

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Reed Exhibitions is making much, much more of ‘digital signage’ at its VISCOM events around Europe at the moment. It’s a shame that they (the events) tend to be very in-country geographically focused and there is a nagging doubt that they are playing a bit with ‘digital signage’ but as we have written before we […]