Archive for December, 2010

National Tyres On Amscreen’s Petrol Forecourt

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Personally I don’t think we (as an industry) can report enough about brands that advertise on digital – my business partners and our editorial board slightly disagree – perhaps they are not as enamored with citizen journalism as much as I am… Here we see National Tyres using Amscreen’s Petrol Forecourt network to advertise. This […]

OVAB Europe New Members

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Dirk Huelsermann, OVAB Europe President tweeted earlier today “#OVAB Europe added seven new members this year and the pipeline for 2011 is pretty full. Watch out <sic> the PR early 2011 www.ovab.eu #dooh”

Janine Wood Leaves EYE

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We had the privilege of meeting Janine Wood several times when she had the occasion to be in Europe and news reaches us that this week is her last as the Global Marketing Director of EYE (she goes on annual leave this Friday the 17th and officially finishes with EYE Dec 31st). Janine told us […]

Redundancies At Mood Media

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Never good when we have to bring you news of redundancies but word reaches us that Mood Media might have let go as many as 14 people earlier this week in the UK. Mood Media wouldn’t give details on exact numbers but a spokesperson for Mood did tell us that “Mood Media is undertaking a […]

Instore-TV-Concept Xplace Best Practice Award

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Geny Caloisi

The Instore-TV-Concept of xplace which won the ‘Special Prize’ at the 4th Digital Signage Best Practice Awards at #viscomffm was given out this week. In front of about 500 industry colleagues, Michael Volland, Managing Director of xplace, received the award on December 10 in the historic Ratskeller of the Frankfurt Town Hall. The unique complexity […]

JiWire’s Compass: Unlocking Location Ads for All

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

JiWire, location-based mobile media company reaching the on-the-go audience, has launched Compass, a new location-based advertising platform that provides mobile app and public Wi-Fi users with interactive location-related ads. Until now, location-based advertising has largely been limited to companies with physical venues, such as retailers and restaurants. Compass unlocks location for all companies by providing […]

#dse2011 – Offering Something For Everyone

Wednesday, December 15th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Registration at Digital Signage Expo, taking place in Las Vegas, Feb. 22-25, is pacing in double digits ahead of last year at this time, so a more than modest increase in attendance is expected. With very robust program choices, there should literally be something for everyone, what with 55 Conference Seminars, an entire Lunch & […]

Looking Forward To May

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Nice email out this week from the organisers of #ScreenMediaExpo detailing some of the things to look forward to next May in London – one of those items listed was our Blogger Lounge (which was nice). BroadSgn of course are the title sponsor for the 4th year now but also good to see Harris, dZine […]

Imagesound New Board Appointments

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We understand that Will Truman has just been appointed as Finance Director and Diane Whalley as Sales Director at in-store music supplier Imagesound.

Akeman Solutions Care!

Tuesday, December 14th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Tim Butler, most recently CTO at Digicom and now in charge at his own startup Akeman Solutions (and before that of course in charge of the digital strategy at CBS Outdoor in London and primarily responsible for the selection of TELentice, XTP and the DEP solutions) launched his new company’s website today. http://www.akemansolutions.com/