Archive for May, 2010

#ScreenMediaExpo – Slide Show Review

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Roy Strutt, Managing Director, Symon Dacon Ltd has put together a truly superb slideshow review of #ScreenMediaExpo… Well worth a look, it shows off everything that was good about the event.

#ScreenMediaExpo – Esprit Introduces The Wafer

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Esprit Digital which manufactures and supplies display modules is probably best known for originating the concept of Digital Escalator Panels (DEPs) and as somewhat of a pioneer in the digital 6-sheet market last week introduced The Wafer at #ScreenMediaExpo (shown to the left here). All the new products from London-based Esprit Digital on show at […]

#ScreenMediaExpo – Twitter Analysis

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Andrew Neale

For those in the UK weary of the stats, graphs, swings and results of the recent General Election, please look away now…(or at least skip to the last paragraphs)… We have have been conducting a similar, although a smaller scale, exercise since the doors of #ScreenMediaExpo closed on Thursday 6th May. When at the beginning […]

#ScreenMediaExpo – Magenta Research

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’ll soon be visiting Magenta Research in Montreal. Robert Michaels, president, told us that the New Milford, Connecticut-based company is opening a R&D office in the Montreal area not far from Montreal-Trudeau airport.

Outdoor Ads Inspire Consumers To ‘Tell Friend’

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

One in two Brits would follow up digital out of home adverts online, but are rarely given the information needed according to atmAd’s 2010 Consumer Interaction Report, which independently polled the views of 1,766 British consumers recently. 43% of those polled said that URLs were only rarely, or very rarely, visible on outdoor adverts AND […]

Full List BAA New Media Contracts

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

It wasn’t just JCDecaux who won new contracts with BAA as BAA itself this week announced the names of all the successful agencies awarded advertising and media contracts across its six UK airports and Heathrow Express service from May 2010. Whilst JCDecaux Airport will handle advertising sales for Heathrow airport and Heathrow Express as well […]

DOOH Industry Needs Standards…

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here is Dirk Huelsermann’s excellent presentation “DOOH Industry needs Standards to breakthrough” from #ScreenMediaExpo on 6th May 2010. DOOH Industry needs Standards to breakthrough

It Might Be A Hung Parliament…

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It might be a hung parliament but the election night coverage on SKY that showed these projections onto Battersea Power Station were some of the most powerful (and brightest) images we have seen. Well worth a look.

Birmingham Bullring

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Rumours of an announcement next week from RAMVISION about a big deployment at the UK’s Birmingham Bullring shopping centre. Folks who have been visited in the past month or so have mentioned what looked like brand new screens and brand new content so it might be that an install has already happened and we just […]

HOUSEKEEPING – A Slip Of The Tongue

Friday, May 7th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Gail wrote in a post yesterday (a post subsequently selected to go out in our daily email today), we quote “in the small booths rimming the exhibit floor” !!! We think that Gail meant “around the edges of the show floor” but unfortunately the obtuse pr0n reference meant that many of our emails going out […]