Archive for August, 2012

The @DSFederation Seal of Professional Excellence

Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The Digital Signage Federation, the only independent not-for-profit trade organization serving the digital signage industry, announced this week that end-users and industry suppliers have begun to sign on to support the DSF standards policy represented by the organization’s Seal of Professional Excellence. Derived from the Privacy Standards that were developed by the Standards Committee and […]

@London2012 in 8k SUPER Hi-VISION

Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

Andrew Neale

The BBC and NHK have been showing SUPER Hi-VISION Olympics games footage at three locations in the UK, two more in Japan and one in Washington DC, USA. This is the latest demonstration of the highest definition TV format developed so far by the Japanese broadcaster NHK. The London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony was shown […]

UK Missing Persons

Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A couple of missing person stories have been prominent in the UK press these past few days and it’s good to see that the Outdoor Media Centre’s ‘Missing Person Billboard Campaign‘ is continuing to be put to good use. In the case of Tia Sharp we note that Amscreen’s creative (shown above) has been live […]

Adspace Digital Mall Network Grows By 64

Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Adspace Digital Mall Networks have just got round to their own official announcement of the ‘Access 360 Mallvision asset acquisition’ (which we covered just over a week ago from the Access 360 Media / Access Sports Media perspective here). The announcement included news of an agreement with Simon Property Group that adds a nice 47 […]

E Ink Buys SiPix

Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

E Ink Holdings (E Ink), producer of electronic paper and LCD technologies, has signed an agreement to buy shares of SiPix Technology Inc. (STI) and its wholly owned subsidiary SiPix Imaging Inc. (SII), maker of electronic paper displays. SiPix, based in California and Taiwan, makes micro-cup technology-based electrophoretic displays. The combined company will offer a […]

Fancy Dancing With Cheryl Cole?

Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Visitors to Meadowhall Shopping Centre are now able to replicate the moves of UK sweetheart, Cheryl Cole, in a unique new movement-based dance game delivered through a standard Clear Channel digital six sheet. It’s the usual ‘media first’ of course (yawn) but it is part of Polydor Records’ promotion of Cheryl’s new album ‘A Million […]

Using Digital Signage For Internal Communications

Tuesday, August 7th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

James Fine, president of Telecine Multimedia, Montreal, is in New York City this week and speaking later today at the Advanced Learning Institute’s Strategic Internal Communications conference about digital signage. He and Lisa Cohen, communications designer and strategist at Telecine’s client Bloomberg are discussing the three very ambitious digital signage initiatives that Bloomberg has been […]

Crambo Visuales Signs Up To @SignageLive

Monday, August 6th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Crambo Visuales, who most of our readers probably know best for the excellent II SIMPOSIUM Digital Signage event in Madrid these past two years has signed up to be a Signagelive wholesaler. Crambo are a major provider of large format and Digital signage solutions in the Iberia region and we understand that they have recently […]

Corum Digital Corporation Acquires @MediaTile Assets

Monday, August 6th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Corum Digital Corporation (initially an R&D spin off of parent company Corum Corporation), who acquired the firmCHANNEL brand of products to complement their Smart Phone Portal, RFID and NFC interactive digital signage technology back in back in 2011 has acquired the assets of California-based The MediaTile Company. Chuck Gose, MediaTile’s VP, Sales and Marketing told […]

Lightning Bolt Strikes Ocean Screens

Monday, August 6th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Finally we are now starting to see some really clever, innovative and truly dynamic DOOH campaigns surrounding the London 2012 Olympic Games. As Ocean Outdoor Marketing Director Richard Malton says “This was a clever, recognisable tribute to a remarkable run by the world’s fastest man. Strongbow rewards the man who gets the job done. Enough […]