Archive for August, 2012
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Enplug (who we featured here back in January 2012) are going to have to explain to us again why they are, we quote “a tech company that is building the first real-time advertising platform for the physical world” when anyone conversant with the industry pretty much knows that many vendors and network operators have that […]
Posted in Scuttlebut | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
A new survey of strategic media planners conducted by the Digital Place-based Advertising Association shows a dramatic increase in the percentage of digital place-based media spending that is coming out of digital and online budgets. Just over 40% of planners who responded to the survey said that they will fund their digital place-based media plans […]
Posted in Scuttlebut | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Note where it says “Although this customer’s contract has expired we continue to provide services to it on a month to month basis. It has requested proposals from competing vendors, to which we have also submitted our proposal for a contract renewal” in the FORM 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2012 filed […]
Posted in Scuttlebut | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 14th, 2012
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
The last time we talked to Jörg Cieslok, he had moved from Canada to Titan’s Chicago office where he was executive vice-president and director of business development. Cieslok quietly moved back to Canada last fall where he is now executive vice-president and general manager of Titan Canada, and where we discussed Titan’s growing development in […]
Posted in Scuttlebut | No Comments »
Monday, August 13th, 2012
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Nice to see installations that were press released’ a while back (in this case the ‘Inwindow Outdoor Intel-based Experience Stations‘ that were first deployed in January 2012) still up and running… It wasn’t exactly attracting huge crowds at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport but we quietly observed it from a distance (quite aware of the Hawthorne […]
Posted in Scuttlebut | No Comments »
Monday, August 13th, 2012
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Monster Media has executed a 3D digital out-of-home advertising campaign for Samsung SpaceFest, a five day event held near the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. The 3D projection was a unique component of the event, which ran from July 18-22, 2012, and commemorated the arrival of the Space Shuttle Enterprise […]
Posted in Scuttlebut | No Comments »
Monday, August 13th, 2012
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Baton Rouge commuters traveling east on I-10 one morning last week got a glimpse of Dr. Disco dancing on Lamar’s billboard catwalk. “This wasn’t just a random guy with boogie fever,” Allie Leung, manager of marketing communications at Lamar told us. “It was a planned promotional event to kick off a 26-hour Boogie-Thon happening on […]
Posted in Scuttlebut | No Comments »
Monday, August 13th, 2012
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Reuters reported this morning (Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:01am EDT) that Chinese display-advertising provider Focus Media Holding Ltd (FMCN.O) said it received a bid to go private from a consortium that includes its Chief Executive Jason Nanchun Jiang and private equity firms Carlyle Group and CITIC Capital Partners. Read the full story here.
Posted in Scuttlebut | No Comments »
Monday, August 13th, 2012
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Pro-Motion Technology Group‘s COO Russ Browne, COO, told us in July “You’re going to be hearing a lot more from us” but since that interview we haven’t heard a peep out of them and that’s despite having recruited Paul Flanigan as Vice President Communications 😉 So after our week in Dallas let’s tell you what […]
Posted in Scuttlebut | No Comments »
Monday, August 13th, 2012
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
After learning a while ago that there was Wi-Fi going up in a few curb side telephone kiosks in New York, we now hear the tests – to last between six months and a year – have been going very well. Both Van Wagner Kiosk Advertising Inc. and Titan, the advertising companies that work to […]
Posted in Scuttlebut | No Comments »
Follow DailyDOOH