Archive for January, 2010

Spudnik Announcement

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Some folks in the AV community (especially those with the ‘in’ crowd) may have seen what Spudnik had up their sleeve in a whisper suite at InfoComm in Orlando, Florida last June. Rumours are of some announcements from them next week. Spudnik describe what they up to as “The next generation display system with endless […]

Daktronics Lights Up Paris Grand Rex

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Daktronics was recently commissioned to design an installation to light up the façade of the legendary Grand Rex Theatre in Paris, a listed Art Deco building from 1932. The main auditorium seats 2,750 people and remains the largest single movie auditorium in Europe. Live concerts, film premieres and first runs are held in the auditorium. […]

Educashun’s Digital Element

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

One element of the OAA’s recent (now seemingly ‘controversial’) campaign running in the UK at the moment that hasn’t been well covered is the use of some of the digital formats. Not surprisingly the campaign includes CBS Outdoor’s digital escalator panels, XTP and LCD formats as well as Titan Outdoor’s Transvision and D-6 sites. I’m […]

Futuramedia Impacts Sales

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Campaigns on Futuramedia’s Pharmacy Channel, Futurapharma, have been proven to have a real ROI. A recent study by health-industry specialist market intelligence agency IMS on a campaign in France for a Cold/Flu Remedy (prosaically called ‘Rhume – Etat Grippal’) which was run during the last two weeks of September 2009, showed that pharmacies not equipped […]

Coca-Cola’s New LED, San Francisco

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

The Coca-Cola Company officially ‘flipped the switch’ Jan. 7, 2010, lighting up its newly refurbished, historic Coca-Cola sign, located in downtown San Francisco, that we wrote about Dec. 2/09. The relighting also coincided with several environmental initiatives that Coca-Cola is currently introducing in the Bay Area. Viewed by thousands of people who cross the Bay […]

2009 Was An Active M&A Year

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

The year-end report issued by the New York-based investment bank Peachtree Media Advisors showed that there were 755 capital raises, mergers, and acquisitions in digital media in 2009 – an increase of 7% over 2008 – although the total value of such deals fell 10% in 2009 to $15.2 billion. We offered this report free […]

Greetings from Seoul, Korea – The Future City

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

As much as I love NYC,  – my soul lives in Seoul. It is THE place to look at when you want “life-size” or real-life visualizations of what cities of the near future will become. For those of you who don’t know – Seoul is home to the the world’s most innovative technology companies such […]

The Men & Women Of Digital Signage

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The Digital SIgnage Forum are holding their annual contest ‘The Men & Women Of Digital Signage‘ !!! We were going to vote for Keith Kelsen – he was so obviously such a better choice than Haynes or Gerba (i.e. people who ‘modestly’ gave back so much to the industry) for the title Digital Signage Man […]

 #dse2010 – Wi-Fi Hotspots

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Andrew Neale

Phil Lenger owner and CEO of Show&Tell Productions was kind enough to send us through a link to a freshly assembled list of local wifi hotspots for anyone prepping for DSE in Las Vegas at the end of February.

#ISE2010 – Bluefox

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Bluefox can be found in one of the Digital Signage halls, hall 12 Booth 12B90.