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Clear Channel Outdoor has hired Pam Guinn, an experienced media industry executive as president of its Seattle/Tacoma office, with responsibility for leading the company’s reintroduction of out-of-home advertising to the businesses and organizations in the Pacific Northwest. Guinn will lead a team of 46 sales, marketing, creative and operations professionals to showcase how OOH is […]

It’s been a week now since we got back from Tokyo and we thought it was probably about time we unpacked the suitcase left on the sofa bed in the spare room. You know how it is when you come back from an event, you end up with all sorts of bits of paper, leaflets […]

One familiar face who didn’t make his way out to #InfoComm12 this year was CoolSign veteran Chris Colt. Chris, we understand is leaving the industry altogether but more worryingly for Haivision / CoolSign is that he has left them – he, surely was, their last true ‘CoolSign’ salesman. Those who dealt with Chris will know […]

We have a feeling the Montreal will soon become very much a digital city, not only with the recently announced Astral digital column network, but likely in the transit shelter area following an announcement yesterday that Quebecor Media Inc. was chosen, to manage the installation, maintenance and advertising operations of the Société de transport de […]

Outdoor Plus in the UK has just announced an interesting new study looking at how to optimise digital content to drive connectivity between large format roadside screens and consumers. Outdoor Plus is joining forces with Central Saint Martins, the world renowned centre of excellence for art and design, for a 10 week study to showcase […]

“There’s also a ‘Twitter Ticker’ that allows the store to drive more positive engagement with customers via social media” we wrote recently in our article about Scala powering the digital menu boards and Twitter feed at Ben & Jerry’s new flagship store in Tokyo and it didn’t take long for NanoLumens who manufactured the so-called […]

BrightSign, LLC announced this week, the BrightSign AU320, a new commercial audio distribution product that further expands the company’s portfolio of digital signage solutions. The AU320 is a networkable audio solution that integrates messaging playback and background music in retail outlets and other commercial settings. “While people don’t often realise it consciously, audio is pervasive […]

ACON Investments of Washington, D.C., and MidOcean Partners, New York, senior equity owners respectively of Fairway Outdoor Advertising LLC and Olympus Media LLC, have merged their respective portfolio companies, Fairway and Olympus Media LLC, to form Fairway Media Group LLC. The combined company has more than 21,300 bulletin and poster displays in 17 states mainly […]

Healthpoint Technologies, a provider of interactive digital signage tools and health care information for pharmacies has been established in the UK for over 10 years and today its screens can be found in pharmacies across the UK and Ireland. More than 1300 systems have been installed in over 850 locations at Independent Pharmacies, Multiples, Health […]

The Audio Branding Academy has announced that the 2012 Audio Branding Congress will be held in Oxford this year, on 11th December. Whilst this will be the fourth annual gathering of practitioners from the audio branding industry, it’s the first time this event has come to the UK and will be held at the prestigious […]