Archive for January, 2010

#ISE2010 – What Excites Most

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A week today ISE 2010 kicks off with its pre-conference, the ISE DOOH Business Conference which now literally has one or two seats remaining. A week tomorrow then the show proper starts and there are a number of things that our team are really looking forward to. One of the benefits of having a team […]

#ISE2010 – Where To Find MicroTiles

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Andrew Neale

ISE 2010 next week is going to be great for lots of things but for many Europeans it will be their first chance to take a look at Christie Digital’s MicroTiles. Christie were kind enough to donate 19 MicroTiles for use on the Blogger Lounge and those who know how configurable the product actually is […]

Barco Struggles

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

In a formal trading update issued Friday (22nd January) Barco admitted that it was struggling and announced “further exceptional charges to be booked in 4Q09” Described as “a very significant drop in sales in the events and out-of-home media markets” the company announced that it had conducted a comprehensive analysis of its impairment risks and […]

2010 Vancouver Olympic Games DOOH

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We think it’s really amazing that, while Canada is something of a hotbed in the development of digital out-of-home and digital signage products, there seems to be so little importance given to the DOOH sector by the organizers of the upcoming 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics in Vancouver next month. We can somewhat understand the […]

XuniPlay Brings Broadcast Online

Sunday, January 24th, 2010

Giuseppe Andrianò

Mediaset, the biggest italian private television group used XuniPlay, the Digital Signage platform created from FabbricaDigitale to manage their online channel where they basically re-purpose all the shows broadcast previously on the television. Mediaset chose the latest version of XuniPlay we believe “for the full and complete support of ;Microsoft Smooth Streaming; technologies” and ‘Microsoft […]

USA Today Digital Signage / DOOH Supplement II

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Friday 20th March 2009 saw the first USA Today Digital Signage / DOOH Supplement and Friday 29th January 2010 will see Supplement II, again edited by the very capable Lyle Bunn. Tony Hymes, Head Publisher of supplement publishing house Mediaplanet Inc told us “The 620,000 copies of the 16-page, tabloid-sized full-color supplement included in the […]

Haitian Relief Via North America’s DOOH

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Most of the major DOOH networks across the US have pitched in to help with Haitian relief advertisements, some developing their own ads; most running ads developed under an initiative of Matthew Stoudt, CEO of Outcast; some running ads developed by The Advertising Council; and many running a combination of these. So whether Americans are […]

#ISE2010 – Project InAVation Awards 2010

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Winners of each category at the InAVation Awards will be announced on Wednesday 3rd February at Integrated Systems Europe, Rai Diamond Lounge, the Netherlands. There are two sections in particular (sections 3 and 4) that will most interest the digital signage / digital out of home world we think… Digital Signage – Network Implementation AVI-SPL […]

#ISE2010 – C-nario Booth 12A89

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

C-nario will have a number of Christie DIgital MicroTiles on their stand in a _4X5_4T_4T_3T1H_HTTH_HTHH_ – to the uninitiated that’s Arsenal Media‘s ‘skyscraper’ shape used at launch in NYC and in the UK and Orlando whisper suites! C-nario‘s stand at ISE is in the same location in Hall 12 as last year, booth 12A89.

RAMVISION’s Haiti Appeal

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Following the news of the Haiti earthquake, Adrian Hopper of RAMVISION (formerly ASG Estates Ltd.) contacted the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC) to offer free broadcasting across their Shopping Centre Network – with of course the agreement of their property partners to support an Emergency Appeal. This campaign is running in the 36 RAMVISION equipped shopping […]