Archive for February, 2010

NEC Developing Product To Tell Age And Gender

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

It’s not ready to launch yet, but NEC Electronics Corp. has designed a method for digital signs to track the age, gender and number of pedestrians that walk by them, providing advertisers with a more accurate reading of the potential audience. And knowing the age and gender of those walking by is expected to help […]

Dallas vs Cisco Cowboys

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Rumour has it that the Dallas Cowboys have finally thrown out the Cisco stadium ad management system. There were murmurings for sometime that all was not right in the Cisco world in the high profile stadium business and sounds like much of what was said was true. The Cisco system (which they made so much […]

Industry Titans Form indoorDIRECT’s MediaAdvisory Board

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

indoorDIRECT Inc., Dallas-based owner of the Restaurant Entertainment Network, announced earlier this week the formation of a new Advisory Board comprised of leaders from across the media and entertainment industries. The founding members of the Advisory Board – Tony Thomopoulos, Mark Lazarus, Jon Mandel, John Mass and David Weitzner – will join forces with indoorDIRECT’s […]

Anticipated Growth in Mobile Advertising

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

According to Juniper Research, worldwide spending on mobile advertising last year amounted to only $1.4 billion – less than one-third of one percent of total ad revenue. But Windsor Holden, a principal analyst at Juniper Research, recently predicted that mobile ad spending worldwide will more than quadruple, to $6 billion, by 2014. With companies like […]

#ISE2010 – Lo-Tech

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Amidst the dazzling walls of LED screens that dominate the halls of the ISE it was quite a pleasant surprise to find a stand selling paint… And not just paint – but a whole range of products from undercoat, middle coat, final coat and special cleaning fluids. But this is not just any old range […]

#ISE2010 Amigo Wins InAVation Award

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Alex Hughes

On the evening of Wednesday 3rd February at the InAVation awards Amigo Digital won the Digital Signage Content Award for the work that we did in 2009 with the PINK Campaign. It is our first award so we are all absolutely over the moon! The Pink creative was a vibrant campaign produced for 4 very […]

Steve Scorse Named V-P GM, EMEA, At Prysm

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

San Jose, California-based Prysm Inc. has announced the appointment of Steve Scorse as vice-president and general manager, for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with responsibility for establishing Prysm’s international program and increasing overall growth throughout the region. Based in the U.K., Scorse has more than 30 years of general management and global sales and […]

#ISE2010 – Remain In Light

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Seen in Amsterdam at ISE today; a cosy looking triumvirate walking around the show; Bernhard Baer, Thomas Doktor and Silke Reichenbach (POPAI Germany) Lovely to see David Williams (the nice one) and Dan Williams and James Abdool. Lee Booth seems to have popped up again and was seen walking the show floor.

Richard Smith Leaves Brightspace Media

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

If there were any doubts that sometime-good-media-sales house Brightspace Media in the UK has (finally) had its day it’s the news that reaches us that Richard Smith has just left Kaleidovision where he was working from after the London office was closed down. When we wrote back in October 2007 about Brightspace Media (BSM) shedding […]

#ISE2010 – Blair Parkin, Visual Acuity

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Blair Parkin is one of the most respected AV consultants in the industry. He also writes his own blog over on the AV Magazine site. Blair told us “I answer to many names but my preferred one is Blair Parkin. I have been knocking around the world of professional audio visual and related technologies for […]