Archive for June, 2011

#InfoComm11 Far From The Madding Crowd

Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

InfoComm 11 in Orlando is going to a pretty busy place by the sound of it. We’ve learned that there will be approximately 950 exhibitors and approximately 32,000 attendees. The floor map will sure come in handy! Adrian, Andrew and Geny set out for Orlando this Sunday, earning more Virgin Air Miles I believe. I […]

More Minkus Pussies

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Very sad to see the industry NOT sticking together (and REALLY we do ourselves more harm than good to allow ourselves to be shaken down in such a way) as news reaches us that EnQii, Tiro, ADTI and Nanonation have allegedly all recently settled with Minkus. We would have expected more of all of them […]

InfoComm Twitter Divided

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The InfoComm organisers’ failure to choose the best hashtag (only our opinion of course – although in our poll 83% of respondents agreed that our recommendation of #InfoComm11 was the better one) and subsequent non enforcement / encouragement to standardise on a single hashtag (or at least the one that the majority of the #AVtweeps […]

DOOH Consumes Too Many Watts, Say The French

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

Vincent Almela, the founder of Trigger Networks has kindly done a little bit of citizen journalism for us. While we were at #FEPE in Madrid he told me, that an article from Le Point was criticising the power consumption that DOOH screens on the underground. The article issued last March 24th, 2011 pointed out that […]

All The Roads We Have To Walk Along Are Winding

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

What many have known for some time has been made official, in that David Da Costa formerly at RAM Vision has joined Wonderworks Media Ltd as Chief Executive Officer for the group and Edward Simons has joined as an Executive Director (both were doing the ’rounds’ at #ScreenMediaExpo a few weeks ago in London). Wonderworks […]

#InfoComm11 Matrox Graphics, Booth 4063

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Montreal-based Matrox Graphics will be demonstrating its latest multi-display graphics solutions at InfoComm 2011 in booth #4063, from June 15-17, 2011. The Matrox Mura MPX Series display wall controller boards will be featured driving a 16-montior (4×4) display wall, as well as a second 9-monitor (3×3) display wall. In addition, an 8-monitor (4×2) operator console […]

ComScore Offers Mobile Measurement in Canada

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Canada is now among countries offering comScore’s mobile measurement service, comScore MobiLens. The service offers advertisers and agencies a comprehensive picture of the mobile market by providing detailed information on mobile consumers’ demographics, behaviours and device attributes. comScore MobiLens allows advertisers, agencies, publishers and mobile carriers to have visibility into Canada’s mobile audience and to […]

Are You Mice Or Lions?

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

The Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, which is being held this month from the 19-25, is the world’s biggest celebration of creativity in communications. The international advertising awards received more than 24,000 entries from all over the world. We wonder if any creative agencies in the OOH industry have participated to these awards (now […]

Keeping An EYE On The Future At #FEPE

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Geny Caloisi

I met Gerry Thorley, Chief Executive Officer, EYE Group, at #FEPE’s dinner, and he was as engaging over dinner as in his presentation where he spoke about the future of Out-of-Home and the future direction of EYE globally. Thorley said: “The future growth of Out-of-Home will be linked with new communications platforms that combine with […]

Clear Channel’s $1Million+ To LA AIDS Project

Monday, June 6th, 2011

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Clear Channel Communications has exceeded the one-million dollar mark in philanthropic giving to the Los Angeles-based AIDS service organization. In addition to its history of philanthropic giving, Clear Channel has also served as an outlet to raise awareness about the fight against HIV/AIDS through donated media placements on its world-class radio stations and its outdoor […]