Archive for May, 2012

New Flysmart Mobile Travel App

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Clear Channel Airports and SapientNitro have partnered to launch a new version of ‘FlySmart: Be an Airport Insider’, a mobile travel application that provides air travelers with all the information they need right on their mobile phones. FlySmart brings together SapientNitro’s mobile, marketing and technology expertise and Clear Channel Airport’s expertise in airports, air travel […]

Jon Vogel Joins Stereoscape

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Jon Vogel, one of Europe’s leading specialists working in the field of glasses free 3D imaging technology, has been brought on board at Stereoscape, one of Europe’s leading specialists working in the field of glasses free 3D imaging technology, to expand the company’s glasses-free 3D offerings. In a career spanning 30 years, Vogel is credited […]

Has Magink Died?

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

According to our archives (and notes) June 2009 was the last time we saw Magink anywhere – that was at InfoComm in Orlando. We wrote then “Magink were serving up their next generation of full color reflective digital ink displays but with their travails in the outdoor media sector of the past we doubt they […]

talkSPORT Teams Up With Ocean Outdoor

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

talkSPORT has today agreed a groundbreaking deal with Ocean Outdoor to simultaneously distribute live sports bulletins across their respective channels throughout what is a huge summer of sport in the UK. In what is believed to be a media first, sports bulletins broadcast on air via talkSPORT will be correspondingly visualised on Ocean Outdoor’s full […]

Signagelive Appoints JB&A As North American Distributor

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Andrew Neale

Signagelive today announced the appointment of Jeff Burgess and Associates (JB&A) as its preferred distributor for North America in the ProAv and Broadcast markets. All Signagelive products are immediately available for current JB&A certified resellers at aggressive margins. “JB&A is extremely happy to have Signagelive’s cloud-based digital signage solutions available for our resellers,” said Jeff […]

Zoom US Adds to Sales Team

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Zoom Media and Marketing, New-York-based place-based media company, has bolstered its sales team by adding two strategic media veterans, Kim Bryson and Mark Campe, to the team. Bryson, senior vice-president of business development, brings 15 years experience in cable and syndication to her new role in Zoom’s Chicago office, while Campe, senior vice- president of […]

Hub Digital Networks, London

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Last week at #ScreenmediaExpo we met James Thornton, formerly Head of Agency Sales at Amscreen who has just launched a new business called Hub Digital Networks. James told us “Traditional and Digital Out of Home is dominated by a few large media owners. However, there are many other small and medium sized networks out there […]

Gerard Bucas Joins i Display As Chairman

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Without taking a stand themselves we noticed that the i DISPLAY or Outform (or whatever they call themselves these days) folks were busy at #ScreenmediaExpo last week placing their revolutionary Android based products in prominent places on other people’s stands. See our post back in January ‘#ISE2012 Early Hyperbole‘. At Earls Court we also noticed ex-Scala […]

Park Outdoor Breaks Into Digital Market with Daktronics

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Park Outdoor Advertising of New York, Inc. (a New York Corporation with a service area covering fifteen thousand square miles of central New York State and upstate Pennsylvania) recently partnered with Daktronics, Inc. to install their first digital display in Utica, N.Y. Doug Stearns, project manager for Park Outdoor at Daktronics told us “This is […]

Who Did You Upset Today?

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

LinkedIn is a gold mine of information if you know how to use it (and of course it also helps if you are super connected like I am / super rude or just plain controversial). We had to LOL at what we saw today when we did our daily check … If we were playing […]