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Amscreen are always the quickest it seems to put their hand in the pocket when it comes to charitable causes and news in late last week was that they have just donated a plum’s worth of media space to Sport Relief. Amscreen, whose nationwide network delivers digital media to over 3,500 sites across the UK, […]

This Primesight (was Outdoor Plus we believe) digital billboard on the A40 into London did not look very healthy earlier today (Sunday 18th March) … The digital billboard is on the other side of the Carphone Warehouse main offices.

InfoComm International, the Fairfax, Virginia-based trade association representing the commercial audiovisual industry, has retained Korn/Ferry International to conduct the search for a new executive director/CEO. Randal Lemke, the current leader of InfoComm, has announced his retirement, effective Dec. 31/12. “InfoComm’s search committee went through a rigorous process to find the executive recruitment team that we […]

I may have only one iota of the intelligence that the character Dr Sheldon Cooper has (The Big Bang Theory) but one thing we probably do share is social ineptness and so it was that my business partners, family and friend warned me not to appear in front of a judge last week and (probably) […]

Swedish Eye-Control company Tobii whom we met at #CES earlier this year has just received a nice cash injection of USD21 million from Intel. Intel acquired a 10% stake in the 12-year-old company. In 2007 Tobii raised USD14 million and in 2009 another USD26.8 million. Expect to see ‘Gaze Interaction‘ licensed out to folks real […]

Having a booth at Digital Signage Expo as well as working as a partner on its educational program helped pay off for the Digital Signage Federation, which has announced the addition of 26 new members in the past two weeks. Management of the DSF, an independent not-for-profit trade organization serving the digital signage industry, says […]

‘Chris Forrester To Leave Amscreen‘ we wrote 24 hours ago and now news reaches us that come June he will be joining Primesight as its new commercial director. Chris will replace sales director Nigel Clarkson who, as Media Week announced in February, is leaving the company to join daily deals site LivingSocial at the end […]

Canada’s giant telecommunications company Bell is growing even bigger with the purchase of Canada’s Astral Media for $3.38 billion. The purchase includes 24 English and French specialty and pay television stations, 84 radio stations, 9,500 out-of-home advertising faces – 39 of which are spectacular digital billboards – and more than 100 web sites. A more […]

The Digital Screenmedia Association (DSA) claims to be the voice of the digital signage industry, we quote from their web site “The purpose of the Digital Screenmedia Association (DSA) is to advance the growth and excellence of the global digital signage, interactive kiosk and mobile community through advocacy, education and networking. The Digital Signage Federation […]

It’s a real shame but it seems that UK media owner City Gateway Media ceased trading last Friday March 8th. The network was run by nice guys and had some very good (and some not so good) digital screens in their portfolio, including the innovative (and I think much loved) Manchester Tower, several screens on […]