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NewSight Surrenders, Ronin Continue To Dig Hole

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

For Wireless Ronin the best way to get out of this particular hole might be to stop digging BUT here we see them entering into an agreement with NewSight (who owed them money big time) to take over the operation of the Meijer in-store network.
Earlier this month we wrote about Wireless Ronin’s Q2 2008 Results [...]

Chris Sheldrake

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Comtech M2M Goes To Sir Alan Sugar

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

There have been a number of inaccurate reports in the press on what Sir Alan Sugar has been up to with UK company, Comtech M2M so here to set the record straight we have the OFFICIAL statement from Amshold’s press representatives…
Amshold statement
Amshold, the holding company of Sir Alan Sugar, has acquired a controlling stake in [...]

Chris Sheldrake

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Why Bluetooth A Football Stadium?

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

Today in the UK sees the start of the Premiership football season and those folks at Matchday Media will have been beavering away all summer to get their stadium screen networks in tip-top shape as they are every year - we love what MDM.tv have done with digital screens in stadiums.
We are not sure though [...]

Chris Sheldrake

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Gas Station TV Say “It’s My Ball And I’m Taking It Home”

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

It’s my ball and I’m taking it home or rather “it’s my network and we won’t let you advertise on our network and diss our customers” which is, we feel, fair enough!
Here we see a little bit of controversy with Gas Station TV and a, “he said, they said” and “no we didn’t, yes we [...]

Chris Sheldrake

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A 3 Mug Salute To Morning Coffee

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Our exclusive screen shots of the Teaser Campaign for Macmillan’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning fundraising event take last year’s creative to the next stage by introducing 2 additional mugs to create a 3 mug salute to the event being held on Friday 26th September 2008.
Since they launched their iconic Wolff Ollins designed brand last year, [...]

Chris Sheldrake

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AIM: Casino Or Circus?

Monday, August 4th, 2008

For those of you that follow the DOOH stocks on what is most definitely the circus that makes up the UK’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) there is a very interesting article in today’s business section of the Daily Telegraph.
The article is also available online…
See http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/

Chris Sheldrake

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UK Big Screens For 2012 Olympics

Sunday, August 3rd, 2008

There are a number of stories cropping up on the amount of big digital screens that will be appearing in the UK in time for the next Olympics, that will be the big one in London in four years time then, Ed
inAVate reported the following most recently…
Big screens around the UK for 2012
The London 2012 [...]

Chris Sheldrake

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PRN Could Loose Up To 80% Of Its Revenue

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Nice to see that the exclusive we ran a few weeks ago about Gen 2.0 Walmart TV has been picked up widely in the mainstream press - in the US Mediaweek has run a couple of stories on it and we have had a fair few calls from other more mainstream journalists as well.
The as [...]

Chris Sheldrake

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Great Screens Great Britain

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

We’ve been chatting in the office (again) about the new giant Ocean Outdoor LED screens in Liverpool and discussing how lucky media planners and buyers are in the UK to have a good selection of massive digital screens.
UK Media planners can now buy the big 4 cities in non standard dimensions and with moving image [...]

Chris Sheldrake

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You Spend All That Money On A Brand…

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

You spend all that money on a brand, in this case it’s an LVMH (retail window) and then you go and ruin a perfect good catwalk show with a lovely line / bezel on those equally lovely legs!
Simply putting two portrait TV screens on top of one another in order to try and create a [...]

Chris Sheldrake

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