Archive for August, 2009

Sons Of Pioneers Are Great Men

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Please, please, please, all marketing and PR folks read and take heed of Dave Haynes’ excellent piece over on his new pressDOOH blog ‘Buzz, Not Buzzwords‘ where he lists (and details why) the 10 phrases to be avoided at all costs… CONTENT IS KING LEADING REVOLUTIONARY LEADING EDGE NEXT-GENERATION PIONEER TURNKEY SOLUTION SCALABLE COST-EFFECTIVE BEST […]

BP Signs Contract For Digital SIgnage With RMC

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Retail Media Company, LLC (RMC), a digital signage business based in Los Angeles, California, today announced that it has executed an agreement with BP making it BP’s US provider for digital signage, both at the pump and in the convenience store. RMC plans to build out a network of screens above the pumps in a […]

Wrap That Tram Blackpool

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Blackpool’s famous Trams run up and down the Promenade and during this year’s Blackpool Illuminations – a 66 day event running September to November 2009 we believe it’s likely that every window in a Tram will be used as a digital screen and the trams themselves wrapped as well. Forgive the sound on this sampler […]

5,000 License Deal For Scala

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Murmurings and rumour in the UK last week of a three year, five thousand license deal for someone. We think this is almost definitely Scala and very, very likely to be with CAN Media – who are the only folks with a network / prospective network growth of that size. CAN Media’s The Life Channel […]

YouTube/DailyDOOH Vlog 15 August 2009 16:52 @703

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

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KiSmart Double Sided LCD

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

KiSmart have introduced, what they claim, is the world’s first and the only dual-sided digital signage with ultra slim (40mm) and ultra-weight (24kg) designs. We liked this and we are sure you will tell us if the claims are true or not.

Primesight Acquires Titan’s UK Roadside Business

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Primesight Limited may have failed to get their hands on (the bits of) StreetBroadcast that they wanted back in April but they just landed a much bigger fish in acquiring Titan‘s large format Roadside estate in the UK. The press release stats that the “acquisition will enhance Primesight’s strong position in the Roadside sector by […]

CODACAN Gaining Members, Developing Guidelines

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

The Canadian Out-of-Home Digital Association lost six members but gained 11 new ones recently. “Most of our membership losses were due to cost-cutting measures in the current economy, but, after launching the Association canadienne de l’affichage numérique, our Quebec chapter, our membership grew again this spring,” says Michael Girgis, CODA president and president of OneStop […]

NEXCOM European Partner Conference, Düsseldorf

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Andrew Neale

NEXCOM is holding a European Partner Conference in the Hotel Gut Höhne, Düsseldorf, Germany on 23rd September to 25th September 2009. At this years’ conference Nexcom will introduce a full range of computing solutions aimed at vertical markets such as digital signage, transportation, mobile computing and POS. The company will launch its PowerDigis Series of […]

Wen kümmert es?

Friday, August 14th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

For those who even pretend to care, the upshot of all the hype, nonsense and fuss from 42 Media Group is basically that they are giving their signage solution product, Oxygen.next away for free with some hosting thrown in and no limits on number of players for networks. They admit that they have no business […]