Archive for February, 2010

The Comeback – #DSTop10 Vendors

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

*“Tonight let’s raise a glass my friend to those who couldn’t make it, a century has shut it’s eyes and who are we to wake it?” – replace century with a year and swoon a little (there’s a very clever piece of pop trivia in their somewhere and in the title for the initiated) and […]

PlayNetwork Adds To Senior Management Team

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Brian Hirsh has been named senior vice-president of marketing, licensing and new media, and Walt Tatum becomes senior vice-president of North American sales at Redmond, Washington-based PlayNetwork. Each brings extensive experience in creative media for the business industry, enhancing PlayNetwork’s core teams and complimenting the company’s overall growth strategy for the future. Hirsh, the former […]

#DSTop10 Weekly Update Index 2010

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Back in December we did say that over the period of a couple of months we would be doing short but slightly more detailed individual posts about the digital signage software vendors who appeared in our list of ”Top 10 Digital Signage Vendors 2009” and pretty much we think we have kept to that. Either […]

BMW Take Ownership Limited Space’s Digital Screens

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Limited Space, an out-of-home media owner in the premium shopping mall market, is taking ownership and wrapping the entire frame of its Ad HD network – giant screens of up to 110 sq/ft with full audio – to help promote the new BMW 5 series. The campaign, in conjunction with Posterscope and Vizeum, runs from […]

Director, Sales Development. PRN

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

PRN is looking for a Director, Sales Development to lead the team that provides custom marketing materials for their sales and business development teams. Premier Retail Networks, Inc.​ (PRN) enables retailers and manufacturers to reach consumers in over 6,600 leading retail and restaurant locations in the U.​S.​ PRN works with leading retailers, restaurant brands, content […]

New atmAd Client Directors

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Perhaps Tim Hufford didn’t want anything to do with TItan again after leaving them back in September 2007 to join JCDecaux and perhaps Fraser Sim didn’t have a job at all after the rumoured collapse of the Pharmacy Channel in the UK but either way both, it was announced today, have joined atmAd as Client […]

Alles neu macht der Juni (DSX 2010 Essen)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Invidis reported today that Jens Schindler’s Kiosk Expo (we are not sure how they have the gall to label it in anyway a Digital Signage Expo) has moved dates to 15th – 17th June 2010. Rumours in Amsterdam a few weeks ago were that this event might not even take place – it was scheduled […]

LocaModa Launches DOOH App Store

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Cambridge, Massachusetts-based LocaModa, Inc. has launched a Digital Out-of-Home App Store, believed to be the first of its kind to offer place-based networks a one-stop shop for social media applications, specifically designed for venues ranging from cafes, bars, quick serve restaurants, public spaces, cinemas, and convention centers. The key features of the LocaModa App Store […]

Bow Tie Cinemas’ Digital Signage Installations

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Bow Tie Cinemas, based is Ridgefield, Connecticut, recently completed installation of digital signage at three of its theatre locations, choosing Texas Digital’s signage solution and content management software, VitalCAST, for its theatres at Annapolis Mall 11 in Annapolis, Maryland.; Movieland 6 in Schenectady, New York; and Movieland at Boulevard Square in Richmond, Virginia. Each of […]

Ocean Outdoor’s BMW 5 Series Launch

Thursday, February 18th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here we see Ocean Outdoor’s Holland Park Roundabout with its uniform grey surround covered with a self adhesive vinyl enhancing the three high specification digital screens being taken exclusively by BMW for two weeks (the site is normally sold to multiple advertisers in a 40 second loop). BMW we are told, required impact for the […]