Archive for January, 2010

1400 Digital Signage Systems For Frontcast

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

News from Scandinavia continues to be positive and upbeat and the region must surely be the most promising in Europe. News just in that Frontcast Media Europe has just signed a letter of intent with a publicly listed company (not named and wants to remain out of the limelight for the time being). Kim Zetterberg, […]

Digicom Wins More New Business

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Digicom, the UK’s leading independent digital out of home sales house – come on guys you are in fact the UK’s ONLY independent media sales house, Ed announced today that it has been appointed by Fitzgerald Shurey Tarbuck (FST) and Simply Media Salon TV to sell advertising across both TONI&GUY TV & Simply Salon TV […]

#ISE2010 AV Interactive’s ISE Preview

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

A truly excellent preview of ISE 2010 by the folks at AV Interactive. AV will of course be canvassing visitor and exhibitor opinions as part of its ‘Have Your Say’ feature as well as putting out an impressive bulk of stories live from the show. Nice of them also to make mention of the Blogger […]

Akoo New Campaigns And Positive Research

Thursday, January 7th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Chicago-based Akoo social music television network has launched branded entertainment and advertising campaigns for a group of inaugural sponsors, including Best Buy, CLEAR, 20th Century Fox, and leading brands in the gaming console and quick-service restaurant categories. Akoo delivers major label music videos and original programming to 89.6 million monthly consumers in premium out-of-home environments […]

Are You Going To KioskCom?

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Are you going to KioskCom and The Digital Signage Show? We are but it still seems a long way off (April 14th / 15th) with trips to Oslo, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Montreal and Las Vegas in between! We’ve not always seen eye to eye with Lawrence Dvorchik with regard his past events in Europe but as […]

AOpen Partnerships

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

AOpen, a major manufacturer of digital signage hardware, announced this week a range of ‘ready to go’ digital signage players available through Distributors and Strategic Partners across the world. More on this story later.

#nrf10 – NCR Celebrates 125 Years At NRF

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) will celebrate 125 years of innovation and helping retailers around the world better connect, interact and transact with their customers in booth #401 at the 99th annual National Retail Federation Big Show in New York City, January 11-12, 2010. Mike Webster, vice president and general manager for NCR’s retail line of […]

May The Tweet Be With You!

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

We think that two (relatively) unsung heroes of the show season are Geri Wolff, President, CEO Market Works International, Inc. and Beky Cann, Neesham Public Relations. The former of course manages all the PR and marketing for DSE and the latter the same for Screen media expo Europe and DOOH Expo and especially as ‘pretend’ […]

POSTV’s Supermarkt TV Proves Effective

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Research from Nielsen has indicated that POSTV’s Supermarkt TV is an effective way to gain extra attention and increase sales on the shop floor. Since the introduction of Supermarkt TV in March 2008, dozens of top brands have advertised on 1,200 screens that make up the network in 200 connected stores reaching almost three million shoppers weekly. […]

ASG Media Creditors Meeting

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Today, UK Snow allowing is / was the creditor’s meeting for ASG Media to be held in London. Probably a good time then for us to publish tomorrow Phil Austin from CAN Media’s open letter to us on the somewhat farcical, if not downright mismanaged administration process.