Archive for June, 2012

Final #InfoComm12 Hashtag Stats

Monday, June 18th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The first day of #InfoComm12 saw nearly 2,000 tweets (up 30% from same day last year), day two proved just as strong with almost as many tweets as Wednesday and day three (the last day of course and traditionally the weakest in terms of twitter) saw 1,350 tweets. The leader board in terms of generated […]

Mobile Marketing Association’s New NA Board

Sunday, June 17th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

The Mobile Marketing Association’s Global Board of Directors is charged with establishing the overall direction of the mobile industry and the governance of the organization, while the four Regional Board of Directors in APAC, EMEA, LATAM and NA are tasked with identifying and advocating for the issues and needs of each particular region. The MMA […]

Tim Hufford Joins Eye As Head Of Sales, London

Saturday, June 16th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Fully abiding by ‘The Rules For Outdoor Musical Chairs‘ posted back in April 2012 we see that Tim Hufford has been appointed as Head of Sales, London for Eye. Tim was most recently UK Head of Sales and Marketing at atmAd and prior to that, he held a number of senior sales leadership roles with […]

#dsj2012 Innovation And More In Tokyo

Saturday, June 16th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It’s probably not too surprising that there was innovation galore on display at #dsj2012 last week at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba, Tokyo. There were lots of mirrors (dubbed digital, fashion or magic in equal measure – the ‘Magic Mirror’ on the DISE stand shown above was particularly good) and a great fruit […]

#InfoComm12 Prysm Partners With Crestron

Friday, June 15th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We know that #InfoComm12 is over, but if you attended perhaps you took a look at booth C7508 where display manufacturer Prysm had partnered with advanced home and building control automation solutions provider Crestron. Two cutting edge LPD videowall displays at the booth demonstrated the power of the automation solutions. Prysm manufacturers revolutionary Laser Phosphor […]

#dsj2012 Chris Shields Buys A Bottle Of Pocari Sweat

Friday, June 15th, 2012

Alex Hughes

Not only have we got to see many different forms of digital signage and digital out of home in Tokyo at both the #dsj2012 show and generally out and about – we have also managed to ‘experience’ and interact with a lot of it as well this week. Earlier today we recorded a short video […]

#InfoComm12 Hashtag Stats (Day 2)

Friday, June 15th, 2012

Andrew Neale

The first day of #InfoComm12 saw nearly 2,000 tweets (up 30% from same day last year) and day two proved just as strong with almost as many tweets as Wednesday. Almost 90% of people are using the correct hashtag #InfoComm12 – which is a great result, Ed. At the moment the number of people tweeting […]

Amscreen Now In Some BP Australia Forecourts

Friday, June 15th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The UK’s largest Digital Media owner Amscreen has extended its reach into Australia via one of its International network partners Blue Media. Early installs have been carried out in BP Australia Forecourts in Brisbane and Melbourne. Amscreen CEO Simon Sugar told us “Last year we expanded our network to Europe, and it is really exciting […]

Bleacher Report Launches Real-Time Digital Outdoor Campaign

Friday, June 15th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Sports fans have been playing an active role in determining the sports coverage displayed on digital billboards, thanks to a two-week interactive campaign from Baton Rouge-based Lamar Advertising, New York-based ADstruc and Bleacher Report that has been running in eight U.S. cities. Bleacher Report, one of the fastest-growing sites on the Internet and the Web’s […]

C-47 Skytrains Fail To Unload Carpet At Tempelhof Airport

Friday, June 15th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

“Have You Gone To ‪#InfoComm12‬ By Default?” we wrote earlier this week and we continue that theme with news and some pictures of the so-called Digital Signage Expo KIOSK EUROPE EXPO which also took place in Berlin this week… As you can see from the pictures above and below the two day event was extremely […]