Archive for August, 2010
Monday, August 30th, 2010
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Not content to rest on their laurels and have simply a forecourt network which comprises 1600 venues nationwide, delivering over 35million audience impacts every fortnight, Amscreen have just announced that they are expanding their offering north of the (English) border in an exclusive deal with CJ Lang’s SPAR store network in Scotland. The five year […]
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Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
NEC Display Solutions of America announced last week the appointment of Graeme Spicer to head VUKUNET, NEC’s (proposed) universal advertising platform that aims to connect digital out-of-home (DOOH) networks with ad revenue. As Pierre Richer explained exclusively on these pages back in June, VUKUNET is a crucial component in NEC’s commitment to grow the entire […]
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Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
It’s actually quite difficult to put into words how very excited about Ocean Outdoor’s Live Creative Competition we are. The event is all set to start with live posting of entries from 9am Monday 27th September. As Alex Hughes wrote in our first post about the competition back on 20th August “It’s always good to […]
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Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Andrew Neale and I will be at #ibc2010 in a few weeks time – at least part of the time. For us, it’s a lightning quick trip flying out from LHR T5 (easily our favourite terminal) on British Airways early Friday evening and returning early Sunday evening. We have a couple of meetings regarding some […]
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Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Following the news / rumour of Kreateevee’s appointment as a technology partner by the largest OOH company in Malaysia, Stewart Chen (CEO turned Director of Kreateevee Sdn Bhd) has officially announced his departure from the company effective 1st October 2010. After serving the company for more than 5 years and steering it to become one […]
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Saturday, August 28th, 2010
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Nice guy Tijmen Bos who many in Europe will know for both his early pioneering work at Librium.TV and the setting up one of the first industry associations – he was Chairman at BV DOOHM (Trade Association) is now owner at Media Machtig. Media Machtig is described as a “Company for business development and investments […]
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
TPG Capital (formerly Texas Pacific Group) is mooted to still be poking around PRN. These were the guys who allegedly bid USD 60 million some time back. Many still believe that RMG may end up doing some form of deal to acquire PRN and several insiders have told us that “RMG are really keen to […]
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Kevin Kemp, previously at atmAd has joined CAN Media we believe as National Media Manager for The Mall Shopping Centre Network of 16 Community Malls. CAN Media manage these as another community focused network on behalf of The Mall. There are 16 Malls nationally, 368 screens located in busy walkways, an average of 23 screens […]
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Ripley Entertainment Inc. is now using a total of 72 BrightSign solid-state digital media controllers to deliver compelling exhibit displays in six of its Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museums. Now in its 60th year of operation, Ripley is the number one small tourist attractions company in the world. The museums include the recently re-opened […]
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Friday, August 27th, 2010
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
EYE Corp finally get round to announcing the appointment of Lee Cutter as the new head of Sales – something we told our readers last week! Mind you, Media Week could only come up with the news a week later as well!
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