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DailyDOOH Gala Awards Raffle Prize Winner No 2

Friday, December 21st, 2012

Russ Curry, Paris Correspondent

Lucky Robert Lomnitz was back on stage for a second time (first time to collect a ‘Reggie’ for ‘Best QSR, Bar or Restaurant Deployment‘ on behalf of the absent Ken Goldberg) to pick out the winner of the spectacular Six Nations Tickets that his company was offering.   ‘Lucky’ because this time he got to meet [...]

DailyDOOH Gala Awards Raffle Prize Winner No 1

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

Russ Curry, Paris Correspondent

With a little help from an IT Girl, Simon Jackson of NEC Display Solutions picked out the winning number from our golden bowl and discovered that the winner was from France in the person of  the  lovely Laurence Roux,  the “in store TV Channel” Manager for La Poste. Laurence runs this Digital Media network which is installed [...]

Our Fly-on-the-wall Caption Competition

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

Russ Curry, Paris Correspondent

Trawling through 14 GB of photos taken at the DailyDOOH Gala Awards, we came across this priceless one of the two most powerful men in the software industry having a little tête-à-tête… Now wouldn’t we all just like to know what they were saying? We weren’t privy to their conversation, but we thought that it [...]

This Evening’s Cocktails Courtesy @ScalaInc

Thursday, November 29th, 2012

Russ Curry, Paris Correspondent

In a few minutes time, guests at The DailyDOOH Gala Awards will be sipping on a number of industry inspired cocktails courtesy of sponsor Scala Inc. For their delectation we have: – Absolut Nix, which is a martini made of vodka, lychee liqueur, lychee juice and lychee Slartibartfast, which is gin, soda water, lemon juice [...]

The DailyDOOH Gala Awards Raffle Prize #2

Wednesday, November 28th, 2012

Russ Curry, Paris Correspondent

No self-respecting awards ceremony would surely be complete without a raffle – and that’s exactly what the good folks at NEC Display Solutions and Wonderworks 3D thought when they approached us with suggestions of some stunning prizes. If you thought that we could not follow up Tuesday’s look at the rather superb 29″ EA294 monitor, [...]

The DailyDOOH Gala Awards Raffle Prize #1

Tuesday, November 27th, 2012

Russ Curry, Paris Correspondent

No self-respecting awards ceremony would surely be complete without a raffle – and that’s exactly what the good folks at NEC Display Solutions and Wonderworks 3D thought when they approached us with suggestions of some stunning prizes. First up today let’s look at what NEC Display Solutions have given us (to give away to some [...]

Did We Say SOLD OUT?

Friday, November 23rd, 2012

Russ Curry, Paris Correspondent

It’s hard to imagine but a week today it will be all over! The SOLD OUT DailyDOOH Gala Awards are of course all set for next Thursday evening at the prestigious Banqueting House, Whitehall, London. Yesterday we met for the final time at the venue for a bit of a rehearsal, shown above is NEC [...]

Bow Tie Etiquette

Sunday, November 18th, 2012

Russ Curry, Paris Correspondent

Those of you going along to the The DailyDOOH GALA AWARDS at London’s Banqueting House on Thursday November 29 really should know a bit more about bow ties. The bow tie consists of a ribbon of fabric tied around the collar in a symmetrical manner such that the two opposite ends form loops. Ready-tied bow [...]

Movember?

Friday, November 16th, 2012

Russ Curry, Paris Correspondent

Any men ‘doing’ Movember and coming to The DailyDOOH Gala Awards let us know please. Movember (a portmanteau of the words ‘Moustache’ and ‘November’), is an annual month-long event involving the growing of…

Black Tie Etiquette (Suit You, Sir)

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

Russ Curry, Paris Correspondent

For all of those non-Brits who are thinking about going to The DailyDOOH GALA AWARDS but who are, maybe wondering what ‘Black Tie’ means, let me offer readers a little reassurance: First of all, it’s not to be taken too literally, in the sense that you need to wear more than just a Black Tie [...]