Archive for November, 2009

Support For DOOH Expo Grows

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

DOOH Expo, London 2010 is the digital out of home marketplace event for advertisers, agencies and media owners running alongside the highly successful Screen media expo event in London in May next year. Support for the event seems to be growing, alongside ourselves of course it looks like OVAB Europe now plan to support and […]

Private Shareholder Revolt

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Plans are in process we see for some of the private shareholders in ASG Media to suit the directors of the aforementioned company. It’s not clear yet fully what the accusations will be, but it appears if one reads the financial bulletin boards where these folks (and yes, including us) mix there are complaints about […]

Mr Chowdhury, EnQii CEO

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

EnQii’s CEO, Ajay Chowdhury has been getting mentions in the UK mainstream press these past few weeks, with mentions on Tuesday in the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper and the Wednesday before that in London’s Evening Standard complete with photograph! As well as being CEO, EnQii Group, Ajay is a director of the Arts Council London […]

Graham Smith / Nicolas Ludmer Join Harris

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Harris Broadcast Communications announced this week two key appointments for its digital signage business across the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region. Graham Smith joins from Innov8 Solutions (part of the CAN Media Group) as a Product Specialist for the digital signage business. Nicolas Ludmer was previously channel marketing manager for Harris, where he […]

Dusty Lutz To Head Up NCR Netkey

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Dusty Lutz, a long time NCR veteran is to head up NCR Netkey as General Manager. He and I met briefly at Kioskcom. He told us that he sees NCR NetKey expanding outside the US quite quickly. Also contrary to our belief, he said that NCR NetKey would indeed play in the digital signage space. […]

Mike Hiatt, Dynamic Retailing, LLC

Friday, November 13th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Mike Hiatt, formerly director of internal media networks at Walmart and a man perhaps MOST instrumental in putting together their Gen 2.0 network strategy has setup his own consultancy called Dynamic Retailing, LLC. He tells us that he already has several clients and projects on the go.

Bob Martin Joins RMG Networks

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Bob Martin has joined RMG Networks (nee Danoo) as Chief Marketing Officer Kevin Davis, an ex-PRN sales guy has also we believe moved to RMG Networks as head of West Coast sales.

The ‘Issy-Neale Formula’ Explained Part 3

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Andrew Neale

Last time we looked at some good reasons why using the formula makes sense when trying to describe screen shapes, and co-ordinating content on to them. Now we’ll take a detailed look at an example applying the formula to Christie Digital’s innovative new modular screen display system, MicroTiles, which has just been announced. Shown below […]

But VMG Are Snapping Up Contracts

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

As we said almost a week ago ‘RAM Investment Group Purchases ASG Media Assets‘ and the official RNS for that acquisition (we repeat our belief that ASG Media was sold off far too quickly and far too cheaply) is below. However, the really interesting news is as usual the news that no one else ‘prints’. […]

Designing For MicroTiles

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009

Alex Hughes

Thanks to the team at DailyDOOH, we were privileged enough to get in early to work on what we think is now the most innovative screen platform out there – Christie Digital’s recently announced MicroTiles. Over the past year, Amigo Digital have had the opportunity to develop content for MicroTiles and explore the nature of […]