Archive for April, 2013

Nordiska ZetaDagen 2013

Thursday, April 4th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

Nordic ZetaDay, which takes place 9th April 2013, is now in its fifth successive year and, as in previous years, is expected to attract a large number of representatives from retailing, media agencies and major brand name suppliers in Scandinavia. The initiative for Nordic ZetaDay comes from ZetaDisplay AB, which is one of the leading […]

Big Bloomberg Businessweek Billboards

Thursday, April 4th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Bloomberg Businessweek magazine launched its latest global brand awareness campaign this week targeting the business and media community in London. The eight-month campaign will see the distribution of four creatives brandishing the straplines ‘Refined’, ‘Selective’, ‘Original’ and ‘Visionary’, shaped by Bloomberg’s in-house designers to reinforce the brand’s leading coverage of the business sector. The creative […]

Gerry Thorley Joins Inlink Media

Thursday, April 4th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

Inlink, Australia’s largest and fastest growing digital out-of-home media company, announced this week that it had appointed Gerry Thorley as its Chairman. Prior to joining Inlink, Gerry was of course, the global CEO of Eye Corp. In his 11 years with Eye Corp, Gerry championed the repositioning of the local out-of-home industry in Australia, pioneered […]

#2013SignExpo Las Vegas Aria Billboard

Thursday, April 4th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

The taxi driver bringing us from McCarran International Airport to Mandalay Bay Resort and Convention Centre for #2013SignExpo this week told us how impressed he was with the new Aria Hotel sign that had just gone up, so we went out to see it for ourselves last night. And yes, it is impressive, rising vertically […]

#2013SignExpo STRATACACHE First Time Exhibitor

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’re looking forward to visiting booth #1733 where STRATACACHE, provider of scalable, high-performance digital signage, content distribution and enterprise video acceleration technologies, will, for the first time, be showcasing its innovative line of digital media technologies at #2013SignExpo. STRATACACHE’s latest customer interactive solution—Digital Play—displays interactive product and brand messages programmed to respond when a customer […]

#CommuterKitchen Dining Out Underground

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

CBS Outdoor UK announced this week the launch of its Commuter Kitchen content strand, which will see actress, presenter and TV chef Lisa Faulkner creating mouth-watering dishes, developed especially to tantalise the taste buds of travellers on the London Underground. Lisa Faulkner’s exclusive video recipes will appear on CBS Outdoor UK’s cross track projection screens […]

#2013SignExpo Gearing Up For Day One

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Well, we arrived at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas to beautiful weather (having left Montreal’s -7 degrees earlier today) and after seeing hundreds of people lined up at the hotel’s registration desk, were surprised to see few people wondering around or taking advantage of early registration for #2013SignExpo which officially begins Wednesday with its […]

FYI No RFP. Accenture / Best Buy RFI Cancelled

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Hi Adrian Industry, I am writing in response to the post that refers to an Accenture RFI at Best Buy. Unfortunately I believe you may have been misled as there is no such RFI. Please can I request that you take the story down? Happy to chat live if you need further confirmation. Many thanks, […]

Christie’s South American Subsidiary Opens Office In São Paulo

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Christie, visual technologies company, has continued to expand its presence in South America with the opening of its first office and showroom in São Paulo, Brazil. The opening was celebrated with a reception attended by customers and business partners of Christie Digital Systems South America Ltda., and leading dignitaries of the Brazilian cinema exhibition industry. […]

Liverpool Media Wall Gets GBP 1M @Daktronics Upgrade

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Measuring more than 30 metres long and almost seven metres high, a new Liverpool Media Wall, which dominates the main entrance to Liverpool Lime Street Station, was unveiled by premium outdoor media owner Ocean Outdoor on April 2. Europe’s biggest digital screen was originally installed five years ago as a façade along the Lime Street […]