Archive for July, 2012

Christie Brightens History Colorado Center

Tuesday, July 10th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

A display of 134-unit Christie MicroTiles emulates the breathtaking majesty and jagged peaks of the Rocky Mountains† – complete with spectacular video footage – at the History Colorado Center. The Center, which recently celebrated its grand opening, wanted a large, expressive statement characterizing the history of the picturesque state while redefining the museum with relevant […]

Zoom Restructures, Cuts At The Top, Francois Takes Helm

Monday, July 9th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

François de Gaspé Beaubien, founder, chairman and chief coaching officer at Zoom Media, has decided to take the helm himself at the company worldwide, but says that a restructuring at the company is not a bloodbath. Nevertheless, the result is that Judy Kenny, Zoom Media and Marketing president, sales and marketing for the US and […]

Fry Named PRN COO

Monday, July 9th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Premier Retail Networks LLC (PRN) has named Martin J. Fry as chief operating officer. Fry is responsible for PRN’s field solutions, technology group, technical account management, network operations and media solutions. Prior to joining PRN, Fry held a number of senior business positions at Grass Valley from 1995 to 2011. Most recently, he served as […]

Rumours of ZOOM Media Blood Bath

Monday, July 9th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Our interest is always piqued when we get anonymous emails along the lines of one received earlier today, we quote “Got any info on the goings-on at ZOOM Media???”. Well we didn’t specifically though we did know that in the UK, superstar media sales person Jill Lee left recently. … errr and then as we […]

NEC Announce (More) OPS Compliant Computers

Monday, July 9th, 2012

Andrew Neale

NEC Display Solutions of America announced this week two additional Open Pluggable Specification (OPS) compliant computers for seamless integration with select NEC large-screen displays and multimedia projectors. These ‘internal’ PCs can run multiple video formats and high-definition content at 1080p and are targeted for use with digital signage in airports, quick-service restaurants, education, rental and […]

Anche in Italia lo chiamiamo ‘Digital Signage’

Monday, July 9th, 2012

Giuseppe Andrianò

DailyDOOH Paris correspondent Russ Curry wrote “L’affichage dynamique est mort – vive le Digital Media” back in September 2010 to reflect the (then, proposed) name change of French digital signage association APCAD but the preferred French term for ‘digital signage’ is still L’affichage dynamique – the French association is now called Digital Media Association France […]

Digital Signage Best Practice Awards

Monday, July 9th, 2012

Guest Contributor, Thomas Dockter

The Digital Signage Best Practice Awards are once again being presented at this year’s viscom frankfurt and companies from all over Europe have until 31 July to submit their completed projects. Who can take part? Any European involved in carrying out digital signage projects is entitled to enter – hardware providers, agencies, integrators – but […]

In-Store Engagement Conference @RetailBulletin

Monday, July 9th, 2012

Alex Hughes

Always keen to try new conferences and exhibitions and fresh from generating 100’s leads at #ScreenmediaExpo we are exhibiting again this Tuesday, July 10th 2012. The In-Store Engagement Conference is put together by The Retail Bulletin and is relatively new on the conference circuit we believe. I don’t see any other digital signage folks exhibiting […]

KLM brandin’ campaign wi’ jcdecaux airport, Scootlund

Monday, July 9th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Following the release of new figures that show Air France KLM Group carries one in four long-haul passengers to and from Scottish airports, consolidating the Group’s position as market leader in Scotland, KLM has booked the with JCDecaux Airport Welcome site at Glasgow Airport as part of a high-profile branding campaign. The campaign which also […]

Abril S.A. Buys Remaining Stake In Elemidia

Monday, July 9th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

São Paulo based Brazilian network Elemidia, which we have covered on several occasions on these pages AND had the privilege of hearing CEO Felipe Forjaz speak at last year’s #DSInvestor Conference in NYC (and his CEO Spotlight here), had more share activity last week. A large portion of Elemidia was bought in September, 2010, by […]