Archive for April, 2010

Steve Jacobs Named President Of Ubiquity Broadcasting

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Steve Jacobs is bringing his experience of broadcasting, digital technologies, strategic alliances and business development to a new role as president of Ubiquity Broadcasting Corporation, San Juan Capistrano, California. Ubiquity is described by Jacobs as “really a hybrid. It’s a technology company. It’s a media company, and it’s a licensing – and relatively soon, an […]

Saffron Bringing Movies To HTC Desire

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

London, U.K.-based Saffron Digital, video delivery platform company, is creating a promotional movie service for HTC and T-Mobile, for the new powerful Android-based HTC Desire handset. Featuring a host of Warner Bros. movies, the new service, which launches this month, is based on Saffron Digital’s innovative Video-on-Demand service for T-Mobile, which successfully launched last year. […]

Six Flags Vendors: C-nario / Omnivex

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We learned a little bit more about Six Flags Media Networks digital program announced this week – see our earlier article Ed Six Flags has made significant infrastructure investments that allow it to centrally manage the entire digital out-of-home network. This includes multiple software solutions across a standardized hardware platform, all of which can be […]

Screenvision And Harkins Sign Long-term Deal

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

New York-based Screenvision, innovator in cinema advertising, has entered into a new long-term agreement with Harkins Theatres, the premiere entertainment company in the Southwest U.S., giving Screenvision exclusive rights to sell the on-screen preshow and non-exclusive rights to promotions. Harkins, a top 10 exhibitor with 30 locations representing 428 movie screens across Arizona, California, Colorado, […]

#ScreenMediaExpo – EYE’s Digital Platform

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Continuing our series of presentations at #ScreenMediaExpo in May in London that we think you’d be well advised to attend, we look today at John Rankin, General Manager, EYE Europe who will be talking about their digital platform (Day 1 DOOH Expo 1130-1200). As many readers will know EYE has been firmly at the forefront […]

Kiosk LCD Afterthoughts

Thursday, April 22nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We travelled up to San Francisco during our enforced sojourn in Las Vegas to meet face to face a new client and saw these two beautiful unmanned kiosks – all except for the obvious afterthought of the LCD top left … and err top left again…

Das Glasperlenspiel

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The Out-of-Home Division of Deutsche Telekom AG (DTAG) is entering the traditional OOH and DOOH sector with their recent (OOH) contract win in the city of Bremen. Interestingly this pits them directly against the likes of JCDecaux, Ströer and WALL in Germany. We also believe that DTAG will be equipping 25 shopping malls all over […]

#ScreenMediaExpo – Go Park Your Bus

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Reminder to Broadsign for those who remember several years ago at DSE and later #ScreenMediaExpo “Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down”. Yesco Europe and Pink Banana Studios have joined forces to bring […]

Miyamoto Musashi Having His Fortune Told

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Wireless Ronin just named Scott Koller as president and COO, effective 7th May – that’s strange as Scott has a technical background and many would not necessarily see him in that new role. Anyhow, James C. Granger will remain the company’s CEO through 31st December 2010 unless extended by mutual agreement – as some in […]

Parallel Worlds: Malaysia’s Biggest Transit TV Network

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

This week’s post comes to you from Malaysia, where we highlight a company that holds the title of this country’s biggest Transit TV network. Asia Media is the most advanced Transit DOOH network I have seen during this tour of duty in Asia. It is an impressive network of over 3000 screens that are strategically […]