Archive for August, 2009

ITrans Is Dead, Long Live Litile34

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

UK, Cambridge based Screen Technology may have gone spectacularly Tango Uniform but only after burning 10’s millions GBP, doing a CVA, more investment, more administration and then finally being thrown off of the Alternative Investment Market but word reaches us again (it’s been a persistent rumour for some time) that their interesting ITrans product somehow […]

Danoo + IdeaCast Relaunch As Reach Media Group

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

The dust hasn’t settled on last month’s big news – Danoo’s recent acquisition of Ideacast and now we have more. Last week, I had the opportunity to be one of the first to talk to Danoo’s newly installed CEO, Garry McGuire. He gave some details on what would be next for Danoo. First off, as […]

Is GSTV Running On Empty?

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Dylan Jones, Jones Digital Media

Could it be that Gas Station TV’s journey is spluttering already? Especially with earlier this week’s decision by BP to award a multi-year contract to Retail Media Company (RMC) out of Los Angeles – RMC plan to build out a network of screens in a thousand or more BP and Arco branded gas stations in […]

Tim Horton’s Looking For New Solution

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Rumour in North America is that Tim Hortons (one of the big EK3 customers) is looking for a new software solution. Why? Seems like the ‘For Sale’ above EK3 and the denials thereof back in June really shook ’em up. We’ve had a ton of people ring us about this. We don’t have an RFP […]

HCMN Adds 11 New Venues

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Health Club Media Network, Woodland Hills, Calif., added the 11 units of the New York Health and Racquet Club to the estimated 4,000 health clubs displaying its static and digital panels that carry advertising.

Cisco Nerds Make Lousy Broadcasters

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

At the risk of sending too much traffic to one of our competitor sites – let’s hope their servers can handle it, Ed we do suggest that readers take a look at this. This is Cisco’s idea of marketing their DMS solution via Digital Signage Today. The presenter Bill Riley obviously missed his vocation as […]

So What Exactly Is Clear Channel’s Digital Strategy?

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Media Week broke the news this morning that Dominic Brookman, former chief executive of now collapsed Vision Media Group International has, we quote ‘acquired the firm’s contracts from the administrator’ although to be fair Dominic did make his intentions clear to us first in a comment on our site last week. Here’s the problem in […]

Capital Networks Targets Campus Markets

Tuesday, August 18th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Markham, Ont.-based Capital Networks Ltd., a major provider of broadcasting and dynamic digital signage software, has launched a new market initiative into the Canadian educational sector. CNL’s Audience.Campus offering has been designed specifically for educational installations, enabling high schools, colleges and universities to improve communication with students across multi-site campuses, as well as within individual […]

Zoom And LocaModa’s Strategic Partnership

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

There are only two folks we would partner with in order to enable ‘Interactive Media and social messaging’ on a network or digital signage platform and one of those is most definitely LocaModa so we were pleased to see Zoom Media & Marketing and LocaModa‘s strategic partnership announced Monday. The companies had previously worked together […]

Coffee Nation Stirs Up Special Offer

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Coffee Nation, UK leaders in gourmet vending are doing a discount coffee promotion through cash machine advertising for two weeks in August via the atmAd network. The ads will run on ATMs at Tesco stores, targeting consumers in close proximity to Coffee Nation machines located at those stores. The discount deal will offer consumers a […]