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atmAd Grows Its Network Further

Monday, September 6th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

atmAd, which operates the UK’s largest network of digital out of home screens by harnessing the power of ATMs for advertisers, has grown its network by 11% with the addition of retail-located ATMs owned by UK independent cash machine operator, Bank Machine, a subsidiary of Cardtronics, Inc. Close to 800 Bank Machine sites have been [...]

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Don’t Be Evil, Don’t Track Me

Sunday, September 5th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

A California-based consumer group is displaying a video on a Times Square jumbotron that attacks Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, and his company’s privacy policies. The video is part of Consumer Watchdog‘s ‘Don’t Track Me’ campaign, which is urging the U.S. Congress to pass legislation that would create a list of consumers who do not want [...]

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One Intel CPU Per Screen (Well Almost)

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Andrew Neale

YCD Multimedia’s software has a deserved reputation as being spot on when it comes to video walls – their MuVi Wall product has a good reputation and seems to sell particularly well. Here’s a new video just released of the really cool YCD Multimedia Digital Signage Solution deployed recently at Cinema City in Israel. Both [...]

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Texas Digital In Line To Win Dunkin’ Donuts

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Texas Digital, “a leading provider of real-time visual communication solutions, delivering business vitals to customers for over 30 years” in a partnership with NEC is in line we believe to win the industry RFP for digital menu boards for Dunkin’ Donuts. They’d be looking, we guess, to offer up their VitalCAST Digital Menu Board software. [...]

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The Big Wild QR Codes

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

It seems that QR codes are catching on in Canada but not always on digital screens. This interesting guerilla campaign involves QR codes on traditional 12” x 18” posters that have been put up by teams in seven cities across Canada: Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City and Ottawa. As usual, when a smart [...]

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Coming Soon – Digicom’s Outdoor Network?

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Back in March we wrote a piece ‘New Outdoor Network For Digicom‘ based on a tease that Digicom Executive Chairman Tom Goddard threw out a #ISE2010′s #DOOHBizConf. We hear that the network, most likely to be called Citinet is probably a joint venture with Philips. We believe that parts of the network are set to [...]

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Bluefox Pilot New Carrefour Systems

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Word reaches us that as part of its new store concept, Carrefour has started equipping it’s stores with, wait for it, kiosks and digital signage! Two pilot stores in the suburbs of Lyon – Venissieux and Ecully have three touch screens per store, centrally controlled, installed at the head of gondolas for white goods (washing [...]

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An Open Letter From Digicom

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We welcome news, gossip and all feedback, whether the latter be clarification, observation, new news or criticism. Discussion of our industry sector is very important and balance of views is crucial. A lot of what we say is, of course, our opinion. As long as it is not too malicious we will often report rumour [...]

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Akoo’s New Advertising Campaigns

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Akoo, Chicago-based social music television network, isn’t concerned about a joint Association of National Advertisers and Forrester Research survey earlier this year that illustrated marketers’ growing lack of confidence in TV ad effectiveness. Although that survey showed that approximately 62% of the national advertisers surveyed across 21 industries believed TV advertising had become less effective [...]

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Registrations Gathering Pace

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Registrations are coming along for the #DSinvestor event which I am co-chairing along with Stuart Armstrong from EnQii. At the moment we have just over 50 people registered (that does NOT include speakers) From our past experience a lot of registrations come closer to the event – the 5th Digital Signage Investor Conference of course [...]

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