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Dubai Airports Appoints JCDecaux Dicon

Thursday, May 24th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Dubai Airports and JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC) announced this week that JCDecaux Dicon has been awarded the exclusive advertising contract for Concourse 3 in Dubai International, extending its partnership with Dubai Airports to 2020. Eugene Barry, SVP Commercial of Dubai Airports, told us “By 2020, our passenger numbers will reach 98.5 million, and Concourse [...]

Free Gas Anyone? Gas Station TV Is Giving It Away

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Gas Station TV (GSTV) just announced that it will give away USD 50 gas cards to lucky winners through May 31, 2012 AND one lucky grand prizewinner will receive a year’s worth of free gas (valued at US 3,000) through it’s new **GSTV (**4788) mobile platform. During the sweepstakes GSTV will air promotional content on [...]

The Store Fights Back

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

‘The Store Fights Back: Energizing the Retail Experience through Digital Signage‘ is next up in the DSF’s Summer Webinar Series. It takes place June 13th at 2pm EDT and will feature Bryan Meszaros, Director, Strategy & Development, OpenEye, Chris Heap and John Schreiber, Vice President and Senior Creative Director, IDL Worldwide. Meszaros argues that stores [...]

Eye’s Samsung GALAXY Campaign At Melbourne Airport

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Australia’s leading telecommunications provider, Telstra, and out-of-home operator, Eye, have teamed up to deliver a Samsung GALAXY campaign across Eye’s digital network at Melbourne Airport. The GALAXY Tab 8.9, the first tablet to take advantage of Telstra’s 4G LTE enabled network is the first campaign to feature on Eye’s new Digital Gantry screen at Melbourne [...]

Has Magink Died?

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

According to our archives (and notes) June 2009 was the last time we saw Magink anywhere – that was at InfoComm in Orlando. We wrote then “Magink were serving up their next generation of full color reflective digital ink displays but with their travails in the outdoor media sector of the past we doubt they [...]

talkSPORT Teams Up With Ocean Outdoor

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

talkSPORT has today agreed a groundbreaking deal with Ocean Outdoor to simultaneously distribute live sports bulletins across their respective channels throughout what is a huge summer of sport in the UK. In what is believed to be a media first, sports bulletins broadcast on air via talkSPORT will be correspondingly visualised on Ocean Outdoor’s full [...]

Hub Digital Networks, London

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Last week at #ScreenmediaExpo we met James Thornton, formerly Head of Agency Sales at Amscreen who has just launched a new business called Hub Digital Networks. James told us “Traditional and Digital Out of Home is dominated by a few large media owners. However, there are many other small and medium sized networks out there [...]

Gerard Bucas Joins i Display As Chairman

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Without taking a stand themselves we noticed that the i DISPLAY or Outform (or whatever they call themselves these days) folks were busy at #ScreenmediaExpo last week placing their revolutionary Android based products in prominent places on other people’s stands. See our post back in January ‘#ISE2012 Early Hyperbole‘. At Earls Court we also noticed ex-Scala [...]

Park Outdoor Breaks Into Digital Market with Daktronics

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Park Outdoor Advertising of New York, Inc. (a New York Corporation with a service area covering fifteen thousand square miles of central New York State and upstate Pennsylvania) recently partnered with Daktronics, Inc. to install their first digital display in Utica, N.Y. Doug Stearns, project manager for Park Outdoor at Daktronics told us “This is [...]

Who Did You Upset Today?

Monday, May 21st, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

LinkedIn is a gold mine of information if you know how to use it (and of course it also helps if you are super connected like I am / super rude or just plain controversial). We had to LOL at what we saw today when we did our daily check … If we were playing [...]