Archive for February, 2010

dZine Designs Kinepolis Multiplex Network

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Belgian soft-and-hardware developer, dZine, which has already shipped some 90,000 players worldwide, announced that it has installed another 360+ of its solid-state players in Kinepolis multiplex cinemas across Europe since the beginning of the year.  Formed in 1997, Kinepolis now runs 23 complexes in Belgium, France, Spain, Poland and Switzerland. After initially experimenting with a […]

BookingDOOH Bangs Its Tin Drum

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It must have been their banner advert on DailyDOOH.asia but Neo Media Group’s BookingDOOH business has just announced a rather big deal with Shanghai Be Media. The Bus-Network of CCTV (CCTV is the Chinese state owned TV broadcaster) reaches 53.360.000 (yes that’s 53 million) passengers per day and is one of the largest DOOH networks […]

#NABExhibitors – NAB Show, Las Vegas

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Andrew Neale

NAB in Las Vegas is a little bit too big for us. We attended last year and were blown away by the sheer size of the event. Remember this picture of the Newsroom? This year the dates are Conferences April 10-15, 2010 and Exhibits April 12-15 obviously both taking place in the Las Vegas Convention […]

#Van2010 – Winter Olympics Medal Count Feed

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Throughout the Vancouver Winter Olympics, a number of networks are keeping their viewers up to date with the current medal count using a free feed provided by Screenfeed. Screenfeed is offering an updated medal count graphic that displays the top 4 medal-winning countries at the games. The medal count is updated throughout the day and […]

Why Campaigns Don’t Include DOOH

Monday, February 15th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Media planners don’t think that there’s any bad media, but digital out-of-home has a lot of obstacles to its growth to overcome, Danick Archambault, media group director, Cossette, Montreal, told the audience at the first Montreal CODACAN breakfast meeting last week. As in the U.S., the DOOH industry in Canada is making efforts to educate […]

How Loto-Québec Deployed Digital Screens

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

At last week’s Canadian Out-of-Home Digital Association (CODACAN) breakfast meeting in Montreal, Leopold Turgeon, assistant general director, sales and business relations, Loto-Québec, told the audience that the company is monitoring mobile platforms and further developing wi-fi as the newest developments in its digital display screens at the consumer level. Turgeon traced Loto-Québec’s use of digital […]

Giving More To Clients On Campus

Sunday, February 14th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Zoom Media, Montreal, has entered into a partnership agreement with Campus Intercept, a Toronto-based campus marketing agency, to offer clients an integrated marketing solution within Zoom’s university and college networks across Canada. Campus Intercept will execute all brand activation/event programs that targets the 18-24 student market, servicing the needs of all Zoom’s offices and clients […]

#Van2010 – The Christie Olympics?

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We do enjoy fellow investigative and intrepid journalism and ravepubs has a story topical as we approach this evening’s Vancouver Winter Olympics opening ceremony #Van2010. Seems, as they say, and we quote “Although Panasonic and Samsung are the ‘official’ Olympic partners, you’ll be hard-pressed to see much of their gear during tonight’s Opening Ceremonies” The […]

Pixman Implodes

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Some gossip in Montreal whilst here this week about Pixman. Back on 4th February it announced “Pixman Nomadic Media Restructures and Seeks Buyers for its Activities” and that was less than 3 weeks after they had brought in Bruno Leclaire as Interim President and CEO to try and restructure the business. MONTREAL, February 4, 2010 […]

#ScreenMediaExpo Tim Harvey Speaks Screen Feeds

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

The presentation and speaker slots for #ScreenMediaExpo are beginning to take shape. Latest speaker agreed is Tim Harvey a Digital Signage Consultant with Dynamax Technologies Limited. His speech is entitled ‘This Advert Needs You!‘ and looks like it might be a detailed look into proven open-standard technology techniques that deliver unique advertising to unique viewers […]