Archive for January, 2010

Richard Rowley Joins abc media

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Richard Rowley, formerly of atmAd, Maiden and Titan to name but a few, has joined abc media as Senior Sales Manager.

HOUSEKEEPING – New Banner Advertisers 18

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

We finished up 2009 almost fully booked for banner advertisements and are pleased to announce (and of course thank) never.no and DSE and AOpen and zsah and KioskCom / Digital Signage Show who have all recently started advertising with us. As usual, thanks to all of them because without advertisers you would not have a […]

PumpTop TV’s New Year Quick Lifestyle Facts and Tips

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Irvine, California-based PumpTop TV’s 30-second videos and snapshot banners are proving to be popular with the 12 million-plus monthly viewers stopping at America’s gas pumps. The company is following a similar path to the OOH and DOOH claim that ‘if you can’t state the facts in 140 characters or show it in 30 seconds, then […]

Nielsen Research Proves Zoom Value

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Zoom Media & Marketing, the world’s largest and fastest growing fitness digital media company, announced this week that The Nielsen Company has confirmed that Zoom’s Fitness Network has the largest viewing audience of any measured digital health club media network in the US and that its audience is significantly more affluent than the typical American! […]

Apple May Be Acquiring Mobile Ad Network Quattro Wireless

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Advertising Age Daily and D/All Things Digital have issued reports that Apple is jumping on the mobile-advertising bandwagon and will acquire mobile ad network Quattro Wireless in a deal valued between $250 million to $275 million. While both sources claim the news is from unidentified industry executives who have been briefed by bankers, neither had […]

The Final Five

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Hands up it’s our fault! We started this industry trend for Top 10 Lists and Companies and People to watch. Digital Signage Today just announced ‘5 digital signage execs to watch in 2010‘ which contains Pierre Richer (president, NEC Display Solutions), Keith Kelsen (CEO, The 5th Screen), Lou Giacalone Jr. (CoolSign), Brad Gleeson (president and […]

OAA Campaign Courts Controversy

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Not everyone is in agreement that the UK’s Outdoor Advertising Association recent campaign is necessarily a good thing; with (tongue in cheek) suggestions for new tag lines such as ‘Fat people are lazy and eat too much‘ and ‘England is shit at football‘ the folks overs at Cream Global believes that the campaign only proves […]

MicroTiles On TV – First Pics

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Andrew Neale

Further to Manolo’s scoop on thinking he had spotted Christie Digital’s MicroTiles on Monday evening’s US TV show ‘The Colbert Report’ here’s almost proof positive he is correct… In total there are 4 video columns as part of the set. You can see the inner 2 next to Stephen Colbert in the pictures above and […]

#ISE2010 – Invitation Only Stands

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

AHN and I went to a few ‘whisper suites’ off of the main show floor at InfoComm in Florida last year but we have never heard of invitation only booths on a show floor before but rumour is that ISE in a few weeks time may play host to a couple of them – manufacturers […]

#ISE2010 – Seeing Is Believing (DISE)

Tuesday, January 5th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

“Seeing is believing” is DISE‘s tag line and they are being true to their word with this stand at ISE in a few weeks time in Amstertdam. Tobias Ekmark tells us that they will be showing different ways of using the software including we believe some really interesting demos together with never.no We think this […]