Archive for June, 2013

Delta Lounge Screens, @RMGnetworks

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Andrew Neale

At MCO (Orlando International Airport, Florida) British Airways share a business class lounge with Delta. It was our first sight of one of RMG Networks Airport Media’s ubiquitous screen installs (shown above).

#Canvas Creativity At Cannes Lions Festival

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Clear Channel Outdoor (CCO) launched a social media campaign on 16th June at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, designed to ignite conversation and debate about realising creative potential, which will lead to the live creation of the world’s first hand-painted micrography billboard, with the mural generated entirely from tweets. 
 #canvas for creativity […]

RETRACTED Legionnaires’ Disease At #InfoComm13

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

UPDATE. InfoComm Retracts InfoComm 2013 Medical Alert Yesterday, InfoComm International was informed that a participant at their recent InfoComm 2013 trade show was diagnosed with Legionnaires’ Disease. Fortunately, InfoComm just received news that the participant has been rediagnosed, and does not have Legionnaires’ or any other communicable disorder. Our member is being hospitalized this week, […]

Digital Asset Wastage In OOH Represents $2.3 Billion Annual Lost Opportunity

Tuesday, June 18th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Digital out-of-home campaigns that fail to utilize the unique features offered by the medium represent a lost opportunity to the global advertising sector valued at up to $2.3 billion a year, according to a new study from Clear Channel Outdoor. Clear Channel Outdoor operates some 4,700 digital screens in 18 global markets, including, in the […]

Chatting With @ScalaInc’s Dan McAllister

Monday, June 17th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

It hasn’t taken long for Dan McAllister, new vice-president sales – Americas, at Scala to get a pretty good handle on what his own and Scala’s priorities are, although he has only been in place four weeks. We caught up with McAllister, who was just back from his first-ever attendance at #InfoComm13 where he had […]

The “Ins and Outs” of Digital Signage Software

Monday, June 17th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

When the mighty Phil Cohen speaks we listen and his latest rant has more truth in it than any (all brilliant) previous vlogs we can remember. Cohen On Content’s ‘The “Ins and Outs” of Digital Signage Software‘ can be viewed here. There’s a mention for Real Digital Media’s Ken Goldberg at the beginning but we […]

#dsj2013 @DSignageJapan Grows Up

Monday, June 17th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

#dsj2013 transpired last week (June 12 – 14) with little fanfare, but there were sure signs of a show that has found its stride and is growing up. As usual it’s a combo show with big brother Interop and few other smaller shows. The combined show three day total attendance was 131,984 down slightly from […]

Proof That (#InfoComm13) Floor Theatres Do Not Work

Sunday, June 16th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Sixteen:Nine’s Dave Haynes (who we saw / spoke briefly with last week BUT spent no quality time with – i.e. ‘drinking’) has written two nice pieces about his impressions of #InfoComm13 which can be found here; day one and here day two – both are well worth a read. The organisers of #ISE2014 who we […]

#DSTop10 @NEOCAST Research

Sunday, June 16th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As part of our continued research for this year’s #DSTop10 (likely to be published in October 2013, in conjunction with DOOH Insights Volume 2, The DailyDOOH Investor Conference and / or The DailyDOOH Gala Awards) we took the opportunity of being in Florida for #InfoComm13 to head the 100+ miles from Orlando to Sarasota to catch […]

#InfoComm13 Twitter Stats

Sunday, June 16th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here is the (final) hashtag analysis for #InfoComm13 over the last 30 days No. of Tweets: 10,903 No. of Twitter impressions: 25,729,838 No. of Twitter users who tweeted: 1,838 Top Ten: No Name No of Tweets 1 @rAVePubs 1,281 2 @WomeninAV 389 3 @mainlinemarket 283 4 @JPLilleyAV 239 5 @chris_neto 162 6 @TelePresence 108 7 […]