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Digital Poster AS Bankruptcy (Norway)

Thursday, May 15th, 2008

We never enjoy reporting on bankruptcies, business closures and failures. News we are afraid has just come in that Digital Poster AS has gone into bankruptcy in Norway.
We last wrote about these guys in February in some detail…

Network Mediagroup is heavily involved in Digital Out of Home in the region, via a subsidiary called […]

Adrian J Cotterill

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McDonalds TV: das neue Zeitalter Beginnt

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

The picture here shows the panoramic display by 3Sixty:TV who are currently running and rolling out McDonald’s TV in Germany.
Managing Director, Carsten Schneeweiss proudly explained that his company is concentrating all their efforts on making this a benchmark channel before taking on other clients.
They are currently at 270 McDonald outlets installed and aim to reach […]

Russ Curry

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3M / MediaZest At In-Store Show

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Mediazest, as well as having a great working relationship with Cisco, have been a long term ‘informal’ partner with 3M as well.
Mediazest shared a stand with 3M a few years ago at the same show and regularly seem to be making use of 3M’s Vikuiti rear projection technology.
Mediazest know how to work with the big […]

Adrian J Cotterill

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Los Angeles Metro Does Tunnel Advertising

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Sidetrack Technologies are installing for free their electronic LED display in the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) subway - the first such system in North America we believe.
It’s a two year pilot project that is expected to generate at least USD 240,000 per year in additional rail operating revenues for Metro. The […]

Adrian J Cotterill

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Titan ‘dogfooding’ Misses The Point

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Titan with last week’s announcement of its new internal video network (T-TV) are trying to eat their own dog food when they should, in fact, be sipping their own champagne!
It can take 2 days or more for a piece of information / message / communication to get round to everyone in a medium to large […]

Adrian J Cotterill

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Futuristic Revolutionary Shopping Experience

Monday, May 12th, 2008

TNS tells us in its latest study that “shoppers can’t wait until holographic sales assistance, interactive dressing rooms, biometric fingerprint payments and intelligent shopping carts become true”
For this new survey, entitled New Future In Store, TNS interviewed (online we believe) over 4,600 primary household shoppers in eight countries; Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Spain, […]

Adrian J Cotterill

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Losing Its magink

Friday, May 9th, 2008

magink as you may probably know manufactures full-color digital ink display systems. Clear Channel in both the US and the UK used them to some degree instead of and as well as LED technology.
We have written before that in the US, Clear Channel’s choice (or lack of it) when it came to rolling out […]

Adrian J Cotterill

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Match Day Media and VMG In Revenue Share Deal

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Here are two companies in the UK that we respect (big time) and (growing to) respect respectively in an interesting revenue share deal.
We hinted at it back on 1st April in our post “VMG Makes Queuing More Bearable“…
“VMG are also exploring the possibility of outsourcing local sales to another partner and we have a pretty […]

Adrian J Cotterill

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Fund Raising On AIM

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

The May 2008 issue of ScreenMedia magazine (should be published shortly) features an article from us about Fund Raising, IPO’s and also looks at some of the pitfalls of the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) for already listed companies.
One of the areas we explore in the article is the historical trend of (already) listed UK companies, […]

Adrian J Cotterill

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CatchTheEye News 2/2008

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

The Norwegian based CatchTheEye folks have continued their nice newsletters with issue number 2, which with kind permission is at the bottom of this post on the blog as a PDF.
These folks should be a required read for anyone involved in Retail. This issue covers: -

How to make money on Digital Out of Home […]

Adrian J Cotterill

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