Archive for April, 2011

Amscreen’s Welcome Break

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Amscreen, the UK’s largest nationwide digital media network owner has just announced a deal with motorway service area provider, Welcome Break. The agreement will see 63 digital signage screens installed into Welcome Break’s WHSmith Branded stores and forecourt stores situated within the service areas on motorways across the UK. As part of the deal, screens […]

Your Feedback Feeds America

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Thumbspeak of Scottsdale, Arizona, and Customer Engagement Technology World have launched ‘Your Feedback Feeds America’, a program designed for CETW attendees with a unique built-in donation system. Attendees at CETW who participate in the program will have the opportunity to answer surveys throughout the event, with a 10 cents donation allocated for every survey or […]

3M’s Presentation In Your Pocket Campaign

Wednesday, April 13th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

3M’s Mobile Interactive Solutions Division (MISD) has launched a new initiative with SlideShare, the world’s largest community for sharing presentations. To celebrate the UK availability of the 3M Pocket Projector MP180, the campaign was designed to expose the crème de la crème of SlideShare’s community in a bid to prove to the nation that presentations […]

More MicroTiles’ Awards (From The French)

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

The Institut Français du Design (French Institute of Design) has awarded Christie Digital its second Janus Industrial Design award for its MicroTiles modular digital signage solution. In 2010, it received the Janus Industrial Integrated Design Award. This year, it received Eco-Design Award at the Janus awards ceremony held in Paris on 11 April at the […]

As Cisco Kill The Flip What Else Would They Kill?

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

News that the ‘networking and router company’ Cisco is shutting down the consumer-oriented Flip camera business that it bought for $590m less than 24 months ago should send shivers down the spines of all those who work at Cisco in their (so-called) Digital Signage business. If they move so fast to kill a company that […]

Adcentricity Announces Consumer Sync

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Adcentricity, a leading location-based digital ad network and planning platform based in New York and Toronto, today announced Consumer Sync – a consumer targeting solution for digital out-of-home media that incorporates data on consumer behaviors, psychographics and purchase intent for a variety of brands, products and services. With Consumer Sync, advertisers can target campaigns to […]

RMG’s McGuire On Current And Future Growth

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

“When you look at all our customers, there’s almost no overlap between RMG’s airline networks and EMN’s airline properties,” Garry McGuire, CEO, RMG Networks told us after announcing RMG Network’s acquisition yesterday of Executive Media Network Worldwide. “That’s what makes it so great. This offers a terrific opportunity to reach the so-difficult-to reach business executive, […]

DPAA Unveils Standard Ad Unit Guidelines

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

New York-based Digital Place-based Advertising Association has unveiled its DPAA Standard Advertising Units guidelines document. The guidelines describe a DPAA Standard Ad Unit as a consistent format for delivery of advertising creative that networks can easily accept for playback on the majority of Digital Place-based networks. The document also introduces a common nomenclature that advertisers, […]

Minkus Case Dismissed?

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We are not lawyers (obviously) and are still looking through the legal documents that we found on the intertube but it looks to us like we may have to throw a big THANK YOU party for Stratacache, Inc., CS Software Holdings, LLC, JCDecaux North America Inc., Monster Media LLC, YCD Multimedia, Inc., Barco Federal Systems, […]

What OOH Industry News Is Important To You?

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Faraz Khan asked yesterday “What Out-of-Home Industry news is most important to you?” As the prime supplier of much of this, this poll interests us a lot so please do pop over to the DoMedia blog and vote (or you can find it on our LinkedIn group)