Archive for August, 2010

Amscreen / Sky News Tie Up Rumours

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Rumours this week already of some form of tie up between Amscreen and Sky News. This would most likely be some form of news supply deal with Amscreen’s nationwide network of digital forecourt screens.

Toronto’s Bloor-Yorkville App

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Toronto’s Bloor-Yorkville Business Improvement Area has launched an iPhone app that gives up-to-the-minute information on Toronto’s best designer fashions, fine dining, art galleries and family-friendly events, all in the palm of your hand. “Bloor-Yorkville is already the city’s premier shopping, dining and cultural destination,” says Briar de Lange, general manager of BYBIA. “With the launch […]

STRATACACHE New Data Center

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

STRATACACHE, a leading provider of scalable, high-performance digital signage, content distribution and enterprise video acceleration technologies, today announced its acquisition of a hardened data center facility in an undisclosed location in the Dayton, Ohio metro region – however as you will see from the map below we know exactly where it is, Ed The 10,000 […]

Don’t You Wish You Worked There?

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We have to thank Advertising Age for making us aware of this. Back in 2007, when digital agency New Media Strategies was acquired by Meredith Corp., Pete Snyder, CEO, and the other founders set aside a stock pool to reward employees who stuck around for the inevitable changes Three years later, that stock pool has […]

Inlink Launch Car Park Network

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Inlink, Australia’s leading office tower media company, has launched a new network of digital displays installed in the car park lifts and lobby areas of some of Australia’s most prestigious office buildings. The new network specifically targets C-level executives who are provided with a premium car space in towers such as MLC Centre Sydney, the […]

Tom Nix Joins Scala

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

There are nice people, then there are NICE people then there are REALLY NICE people and one of those most definitely in the latter category is Tom Nix, ex-Dynamax Vice President and General Manager, North America and most recently doing a number of consulting gigs for folks. Anyway news in over the weekend (okay rumour […]

Top Up Your Brain With WIRED

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

WIRED last month signed a branded content deal with JCDecaux, with creative by Hurrell Moseley, Dawson Grimmer (HMDG), aimed at engaging the travelling public this August, using WIRED editorial across digital screens on roadside and in national rail stations in the UK. From today (Monday 2nd August) consumers will be able to ‘top up their […]

Will Work For Love: Pedro Andres Sanchez, Monster Media, Orlando, Florida

Monday, August 2nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Pedro Andres Sanchez is the creative director at Monster Media, Orlando, Florida. with responsibility for overseeing the creative staff and orchestrating the development and design of each creative execution from concept to reality. Describe your personal workspace.My desk is in an open studio area shared with other members of the creative staff (in order to […]

Morgan Angove Joins Minicom Digital Signage

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We just heard that Morgan Angove (a nice guy and formerly sales director at Dagobert) starts this week as Minicom Digital Signage‘s Sales Manager for France, Benelux and the UK. That’s a good hire.

What A Week We Have Coming Up

Sunday, August 1st, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

I hope you are all reading this over the weekend (or okay at the very least EARLY Monday morning) or you won’t be able to keep up!! Okay so the Doberman Pincher Alliance of America did not announce their head hound last week as folks told us they would but next week sees Monday kick […]