Archive for January, 2014

@DoYouLovePixels? Yes! And We Love This…

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Details on this are sketchy at the moment, except for a semi-cryptic tweet from @DoYouLovePixels (i.e UK Digital Signage Agency Pixel Inspiration) but it’s a candidate surely, even this early in the year, as a retail finalist at The DailyDOOH Gala Awards… The install is in the Argos Store, 189-197 Old Street London EC1V 9JS […]

More On Human Emergency Life Point

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We delved deeper in the new company Human Emergency Life Point (aka HELP) that we wrote about yesterday to learn more and spoke to Patrick Holota, COO and CFO, one of the two partners, the other being Gabor Bacskai Lauro, CEO and CTO – and credited by Holota as being the initial inventor and mastermind […]

SmartTray Co-Pilot In-Flight Tray Makeover @CCOutdoorNA

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Clear Channel Airports Inc., Allentown, Pennsylvania, has partnered with SmartTray International LLC, Phoenix, Arizona, to transform decades-old airline seat-back food trays into multi-purpose tech friendly tray-tables capable of simultaneously accommodating both mobile devices and the typical in-flight pretzels and beverages. This innovation is capable of leveraging digital place-based media technology while bringing passengers in-flight entertainment […]

Cieslok Media’s New Board on Edmonton’s Yellowhead Trail

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

A new 14’ x 48’ digital spectacular is now live on Yellowhead Trail just east of Highway 216 in Edmonton, Alberta, the only board of its kind in an otherwise advertising-free location. It’s the first in a series of digital expansions happening across the country for Cieslok Media following the recent purchase of the Canadian […]

Gibraltar’s Eroski Supermarket Ad Network

Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

Brenig Media International launched a digital advertising network at Gibraltar’s Eroski Supermarket last weekend. The new network (using Scala) went live at the checkout counters on Sunday morning, CEO James Brenig, told us “The network will keep customers entertained and informed, combining the supermarkets branding messages and local brand advertising with social media and smartphone […]

#dse2014 @RMGNetworks Now Not Among Exhibitors

Tuesday, January 21st, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

RMG Networks’ 2014 Customer Focus this year obviously does NOT include #dse2014. The floor plan (if we remember correctly) seemed to have them down as being in booth 105 (some 1200 sq ft. in a 30′ x 40′) but when we looked recently, their name had disappeared, replaced with the text ‘DSE’ – a space […]

Vital Sign Media: Did Investors Miss The Boat?

Tuesday, January 21st, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

When we heard about HELP International’s new combination digital signage-emergency unit, it immediately brought to mind Vital Sign Media, a similar unit for indoors that drew our attention as one of the most interesting items we saw at  DSE back in 2010, so we contacted David Magruder, the man behind that unit. Magrunder talked to us […]

The Wow, @blowUPmediaNL

Tuesday, January 21st, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

blowUP media has started the New Year with a ‘Wow’, unveiling a new digital billboard directly opposite Rotterdam Central Station – one of the busiest transport hubs in the Netherlands. The screen, named ‘The Wow’ is 170m2 and Unilever is the official launch partner (showing a Liptons Tea advert above). We understand that it’s Daktronics […]

@ONELAN_Ltd At @EuroShop 2014

Tuesday, January 21st, 2014

Andrew Neale

EuroShop is triennial so doesn’t come around very often but when it does, if you are into retail, you probably ought to be there. We note that ONELAN will be exhibiting at Euroshop 2014 which this year takes place 16th to 20th February in Dusseldorf. ONELAN will be in Hall 3 on stand G84 and […]

Romanian Forecourt Primlink Network

Tuesday, January 21st, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

If proof were needed that entrepreneurs are flocking to those who can provide them ready made digital signage solutions (Amscreen Digital Solutions in particular it seems these days) news just in that Romanian company Primex G&C has setup its own Romanian Petrol Forecourt network after a chance chance visit from Primex’s entrepreneurial owner Stefan Voloseniuc […]