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Mood Media Corporation (TSX:MM / LSE AIM:MM) announced that its unsecured notes for its recently announced USD 350 million fund raise will bear interest at an annual rate of 9.25%. Mood Media intends to use the net proceeds of the private placement to repay existing indebtedness under its first-lien credit facility, repay its second lien […]

Levi’s #GoForth Campaign displays the power of Instagram with an impressive campaign that curates user generated images in a collage on the new Van Wagner digital billboard overlooking Penn Station on 34th St in NYC. I learned of this campaign after hearing LocaModa’s Stephan Randall speak at the DPAA Digital Media Summit last week. Now […]

Ahmad Ouri, president and CEO of IZON Media, gave the reasons behind the company’s recent rebranding – a move that many in the industry questioned, considering the strength and awareness of the Premier Retail Networks (PRN) brand – at the Digital Signage Investor Conference in New York last Wednesday. “Keeping eyes-on (ie IZ•ON) the advertiser’s […]

Following on from our gossip post from late last week ‘Jeff Porter Leaves @ScalaInc‘ written from the BA Lounge at Newark airport, we got back home eight hours later to a mail box full of even more rumour and intrigue. Has there been a Scala bloodbath? Has CEO Tom Nix finally got rid of the […]

One of the juiciest bits of gossip we came across whilst in NYC last week was that Jeff Porter has left Scala. Tom Nix didn’t feel fit to tell us this on the Monday of that week when we had breakfast, but anyhow, we now seemingly have another digital signage expert for hire. Jeff’s new […]

Last Wednesday night, as part of #DpbMedia Week in New York, we had the opportunity to tour Bloomberg’s corporate headquarters and see the existing three digital out-of-home installations and preview a fourth one in the making, all developed by Telecine Multimedia, Montreal, with Scala management software. The views of the city from the windows of […]

Last Friday Mood Media Corporation (TSX:MM / LSE AIM:MM) announced that its subsidiary, Muzak, LLC (itself acquired March 2011) had acquired the assets of one of its largest franchisees, for USD 27.9 million in cash, 80% of which was payable on closing with the remaining 20% payable on the 12 month anniversary of closing, subject […]

JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announced today that it has agreed to acquire 25% of Russ Outdoor, the largest outdoor advertising company in Russia, pending the required anti-monopoly approvals. As part of the transaction, JCDecaux will contribute its Russian assets from BigBoard to Russ Outdoor. With 2011 revenues […]

Strange if true, the rumour that Four Winds Interactive are aggressively trying to raise money, and the fact that senior execs were in New York City this week but didn’t feel fit to come along to the Digital Signage Investor Conference. We think they missed a trick there! We couldn’t figure out why FWi, so […]

Saying that the deal was not good for Canadians because it would place too much power in the hands of one company, the Canadian Radio-television & Telecommunications Commission said that it would not approve of Bell Canada Enterprises planned purchase of Montreal-based Astral Inc. While Bell appeared most interested in Astral’s broadcast sector, the deal […]