Archive for June, 2010

GoGo Cast Announce New In-Store Collaboration

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

GoGo Cast Inc. this week announced an in-store collaboration with Tedeschi Food Shops, Inc., for the use of GoGo Cast’s high definition Go-Screen’s™; expanding the GoGo Cast footprint to over 550 locations. GoGo Cast’s digital signage and digital merchandising solution will help Tedeschi Food Shops engage their customers with meaningful and informative content we are […]

Suggestive Selling

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Texas Digital Systems Inc., College Station, Texas-based provider of visual communication solutions, and Odysii, Herzliya, Israel-based leader in software solutions for targeted suggestive selling, have partnered to enhance Texas Digital’s AccuVIEW order confirmation solution with Odysii’s suggestive selling solution. This combined drive-thru solution is designed to increase the average sales ticket per customer. Texas Digital […]

Marketing Week Live, London

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

There are a number of good things going on next week in London at the Marketing Week Live event (Grand Hall, London Olympia 29-30 June) Here are two that we are looking forward to specifically and that may interest others… Mood Media: Music – more than just Wallpaper? Vanessa Warren, Group Marketing Manager at Mood […]

Paris Metro Vandalism

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

The introduction of digital screens into the Paris Metro has had a bit of a chequered history. In March 2009, 4 test screens were installed at Etoile with the announcement that a further 400 were planned for the Paris region. Immediately, five anti-advertising associations with wonderfully evocative names (Smile, You’re Being Filmed, Big Brother Awards, […]

Aztec Are Excited For Tiles…

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Andrew Neale

We recently reported that UK based Aztec Event Services were itching to get their hands on the Christie MicroTiles they had ordered for their equipment stock for events and rental staging. Clearly getting a bit excited, they’ve already put them to good use in their warehouse… On the screen, you can just see the first […]

WunderRadio Goes Android

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

San Francisco-based Weather Underground has launched its popular, award-winning mobile application, WunderRadio, for the Android platform. Android owners can now listen to more than 50,000 Radio Stations and Shows on WunderRadio. The app, available in the Android Market for $6.99, provides users with the same interactive features and reliable radio streams that iPhone, BlackBerry and […]

Magenetic 3D Adds Vendor Partner For Europe

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

New York-based Magnetic 3D, a leader in glasses-free 3D display and 3D digital signage solutions, has developed a new vendor partnership with European digital signage and kiosks firm Avnet Embedded, a new division of Germany-based Avnet Electronics Marketing EMEA. The new strategic agreement will offer a comprehensive glasses-free 3D Digital Signage solution for European companies […]

Human Messaging Systems?

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Blimey! we have heard ‘wearable media’ called many things before but NEVER described as a ‘human messaging system’. The experiential and guerrilla marketing agency Kommando who, to be fair, were mainly responsible for introducing wearable media to Europe back in 2002 (when they were one of the Pixman Nomadic Media VARs) have just launched what […]

Paul Farrow Joins HP

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

The last time we made mention of Paul Farrow it was January 2009 and he had just joined BroadSign as Sales Director, Europe. News reached us last week that he is no longer at BroadSign but now firmly in place as ‘EMEA Digital Signage GTM Business Development Manager‘ at Hewlett-Packard.

Clear Channel Live Tweets, Cannes

Monday, June 21st, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Clear Channel has decided to sponsor the Outdoor Lions at the 2010 Cannes Lions for the first time to support and showcase the best creative ideas out-of-home during the week-long festival. There have been 24,242 total entries for the Lions this year – the fourth highest number in the history of Cannes. There are 3,822 […]