Archive for July, 2010

Clear Channel Helps School Survey To Record Participation

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Clear Channel New York’s recent partnership with the New York City Department of Education helped result in record participation in the DOE’s Annual New York City Public School Survey. More than 922,000 parents, teachers and students responded to the 2010 survey, assessing how well schools are serving them. Participation in the annual survey reached a […]

Will Work For Love: Keith Nilsen, Clear Channel Outdoor UK, London

Monday, July 5th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Keith Nilsen is the digital outdoor network manager, Clear Channel Outdoor UK, London, with responsibiity for the comany’s digital products Describe your personal work space.With the multi-screen set-up I hide behind – a main workstation, scheduling system and test platform – my workspace has been likened to the bridge of the Enterprise in ‘Star Trek’, […]

Ngage media BV Add 800 Locations

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Ngage media BV today announced extra coverage in the Netherlands with an additional 800 locations and 1,900 screens. Ngage media are of course an independent media sales organization in Digital Out of Home, a company that we have in the past likened to the UK’s Digicom. Last month it seems that Ngage media came to […]

Social Media Buzz, London July 14th

Sunday, July 4th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

With all of our pioneering work with Twitter we figured this would be a good event to go to in the UK in July, especially as our good friend Steve Mullins of brand-e is moderating. Some of the speakers; Andrew Grill, UK head of sales & business development at Visible Technologies, on beyond the buzz […]

HOUSEKEEPING – Happy 4th July Weekend

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

Andrew Neale

Happy 4th July weekend for those of you stateside. Happy Birthday to Adrian also. Normal service will be resumed Monday 5th July.

EYE Supports OZ Lotto Jackpot

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Eye Shop has recently been working closely with Mediacom to deliver flexible, time sensitive digital campaigns promoting the OZ Lotto for Tattersalls in Victoria and the Golden Casket Lottery in Queensland, Australia. Chris Stanley, Executive, Investment & Implementation Planning at MediaCom told us “Eye Shop’s digital network gives Tattersalls the opportunity to book and supply […]

VMG Win Delhi Metro

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Strong rumour that VMG have won the digital contract at Delhi Metro.

Lee McQueen Leaves Amscreen

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

News broke this week that former APPRENTICE winner Lee McQueen is leaving his job at Amscreen to take up, of all things, public speaking – whether there is money to be made in talking publicly and loudly about big boobs is anyone’s guess? The currant bun reported that “the wannabe tycoon has already given motivational […]

Numbers On The Mobile Sector

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We see a lot of numbers relating to our industry come across our desk, including various optimistic forecasts, research studies, and monthly, quarterly and annual reports. These are a few of the numbers, mainly on the mobile sector, that have come across our desk recently, in no particular order, but perhaps of interest to those […]

Clear Channel Appoints Three Group Presidents

Friday, July 2nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc., San Antonio, has appointed three new group presidents for its MidWest, South and West Regions, completing an organization structure that includes the company’s existing East Division. The new group presidents are: Michelle Costa, leading the South Region; Rod Firestone, leading the Midwest Region; Greg McGrath, leading the West Region. The […]