Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Sunnyvale, California-based Retrevo recently released its first two reports from the first Gadget Census looking at gadget ownership across the country and world. The 2010 Retrevo Gadget Census is believed to be the largest study of people and the consumer electronics they own and use. This census was conducted online from March, 2010, through July, […]
Headland Media who lost Phil Atkinson to Imagesound Arabia back in January have finally got round to replacing him. News reaches us that Anthony Royal, previously at PHAudio (a sort of music-on-hold company in Manchester) has been recruited to replace Phil. Headland Media are providers of high quality and cost-effective media content in text, audio […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
News reaches us (for the umpteenth time now, by LinkedIn) that nice guy Robert Padmore (he was one of the only people at Avanti Screenmedia who knew and talked sensibly about retail but was rarely allowed to speak – publicly at least (much to the detriment of said business) has joined the St Ives Group. […]
It’s always good to see a media owner looking to raise awareness of the Digital Out of Home Industry with a high profile creative competition, and from a Designer’s perspective it represents a unique challenge and opportunity to flex one’s creative muscles. So the Ocean Outdoor live OOH creative competition can only be a good […]
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Worldwide mobile device sales to end users totaled 325.6 million units in Q2, a 13.8% increase from the same period in 2009, according to Gartner Inc., Stamford Connecticut. Smartphone sales to end users accounted for 19% of worldwide mobile device sales, an increase of 50.5% from Q2/09. However, average selling prices were lower than expected […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Word in this week is that those remaining Broadsign employees are not happy campers having had to move recently to less salubrious office space. Whether or not unpaid rent on the posh Petters era office was the cause (some wags will tell us anything) Broadsign seem unable to shake this hand to mouth financial straitjacket […]
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Despite the explosion of mobile phone growth, Titan management still sees phone kiosks a worthwhile investment. The company will be New York’s largest provider of phone kiosk advertising following its acquisition from Verizon of 1,900 payphones at 1,300 phone kiosk locations in New York City. This latest transaction will triple the Company’s inventory of New […]
Dylan Jones, Jones Digital Media
The Display Search Conference in San Jose this week kicked off with a rather muted start on Tuesday. Attendance was definitely down from last year and featured many of the same speakers, mostly from the likes of Intel, LG, Panasonic and NEC. So, was there anything a creative guy could get excited about in this […]
The second event in Lyle Bunn’s Master Series, focused on ad-based retail implementations, drew a crowd of approximately 80-90 attendees. Unlike other Digital Signage Events, it was great to see a high number of end-users in the audience. Canadian Tire, LCBO, Scotia Bank and a few others were most notable, considering they all have some sort […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Lee Cutter is set to leave CBS Outdoor and join EYE Corporation we believe.
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