Archive for April, 2013

Tangibal Group PLC Buys Westpoint Media GmbH

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Tangibal Group PLC., whose CEO is Dominic Brookman, has bought Westpoint Media GmbH for GBP 550,000. Westpoint Media GmbH have some good media contracts in German Shopping Malls. The release in English can be found here and in German here.

Mark James Joins Eye from CBS Outdoor

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

Eye announced this week the appointment of Mark James in the role of Operations Manager. Mark’s remit will be to manage the business’ London airport operations and ensure the smooth logistical running of campaigns across Eye’s newly expanded media estate. Sarah Parkes, Managing Director at Eye told us “We are delighted to welcome Mark to […]

IAB And MMA Release Mobile Creative Guidelines

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

The Interactive Advertising Bureau and Mobile Marketing Association issued finalized creative guidelines for mobile advertising last week, following a month-long public comment period. The new guidelines were announced made at the IAB’s Mobile Marketplace conference in New York. Initially released last January, the Mobile Phone Creative Guidelines offer ad specifications for both standard and rich […]

An Immersive Cinema Experience For Moviegoers

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

STRATACACHE, Dayton, Ohio-based provider of scalable, high-performance digital signage, and enVu, a New York-based out-of-home interactive media company owned by STRATACACHE, introduced a technology collaboration enabling cinemas to interact more closely with moviegoers. Unveiled at CinemaCon in Las Vegas, the joint solution features an immersive, movie-based experience from enVu, powered by STRATACACHE’s award-winning digital signage […]

Aerva Driving LED Display at Fountain Square

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Fifth Third Bank and the Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC) have joined forces to install a new state-of-the art LED video display driven by Aerva‘s AerWave digital signage technology. In 2006, 3CDC picked Aerva Inc., Cambridge. Massachusetts, to drive its very first digital LED display after the $48 million renovation of Fountain Square. Now […]

#GlobalShop STRATACACHE Showing Digital Play Experience

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

STRATACACHE, Dayton, Ohio-based provider of scalable, high-performance digital signage, content distribution and company enterprise video acceleration technologies, is exhibiting at GlobalShop, an annual event dedicated to retail design and shopper marketing, April 16-18, 2013 at Chicago’s McCormick Place. GlobalShop attendees can experience STRATACACHE’s latest in-store digital media solutions including Digital Play,Retail Proxy and PrimaSee featured […]

Wi-Fi Enabled Park Benches

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

UM London and out of home planning and buying specialist Rapport have collaborated with Ministry of Experience to bring Wi-Fi enabled benches to London and Birmingham parks as part of their work for the new Microsoft ‘work from anywhere’ campaign. Promoting cloud-based productivity software, Office 365, sees superfast 4G Wi-Fi added to benches in four […]

Newly-Designed Real-Time Content 4 Digital Signage From @Seenspire

Tuesday, April 16th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Seenspire, a young start-up in Antwerp, Belgium, which has been developing custom tailored content for digital signage clients, has launched a syndicated content offering where flowing content ribbons and cubes replace boring tickers and stills. The company, owned by co-founders Samuel Mekonen and Richard Buhn, is offering what its founders say is cost-effective editorial packages […]

BlackBerry Z10 Smartphone Replicated With MicroTiles

Monday, April 15th, 2013

Andrew Neale

A ‘working’ ten-foot high smartphone created by trade AV specialists PSCo Rental using MicroTiles brought BlackBerry the footfall it needed to get the launch of its Z10 device off to a flying start in the O2 stores at two prime UK shopping centres. PSCo Rental provided a turnkey package to trade partner TC Communications Ltd […]

Steve Scorse Leaves @PrysmLPD Joins SiliconCore

Monday, April 15th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

InAVate magazine are reporting that Steve Scorse has joined SiliconCore Technology as vice president for Europe, Middle East and Africa, based in the UK. Steve Scorse was previously of course, vice-president and general manager at Prysm Inc. (also for Europe, the Middle East and Africa) – a post he took up some three years ago […]