We would like to again, thank all of those who have advertised with us during 2011…

Amigo Digital, AOpen, Ayuda Media Systems, Bluefox, CETW, Christie Digital, C-nario, ComQi, DIGICOM, Digital Signage Expo, Digital Signage Federation, DV-Signage Europe GmbH, Harris Broadcast, IAdea, Iconic Images, InAVate Magazine, Integrated Systems Europe (ISE), Intel Corporation, invidis consulting, Jones Digital Media, Limited Space Ltd., Minicom Digital Signage, MooKuh, NCR, NEC, NFC Bootcamp, OVAB Europe, POPAI, REED Exhibitions, RMG Networks, Screen Media Expo Europe, signagelive, STRATACACHE, The Screen, The Strategy Institute, VUKUNET and Wired Magazine.

AOpen, ComQi, DV-Signage Europe GmbH, IAdea, InAVate Magazine, signagelive, The Screen and NCR.

As usual, thanks to ALL of them because, quite simply, without advertisers you would not have a DailyDOOH.

1. For some strange reason (which we haven’t fathomed out yet) our servers decided to send out at least THREE copies of our ‘DailyDOOH 14 November 2011‘ email at 13:00 GMT today (many apologies to everyone for that. We are currently investigating why it happened).
2. Yet another (supposed) ‘intern’ emailing in (over the weekend) and asking for help with market research. When we reply and say “sure, always willing to help students but who’s the research for?” we get a blank, no reply, nothing. This is not the first time this has happened.
3. We finally persuaded our last WinDoze diehards to switch to Apple but that cost us as we just put in a 15.4″ TFT Apple MacBook Pro Core i7 2.4 GHz bulk order.
4. Despite our (server software) issue earlier we don’t take any of our infrastructure for granted and are continually improving, what we think, is a pretty good couple of racks’ worth of equipment. A new order today totalled well over GBP 3K for routers, firewalls and some memory upgrades etc for our servers. It also included a WatchGuard XTM 5 Series 505 – security appliance.
5. Lastly, I don’t take kindly to emails (almost ALWAYS from PR agencies) that start with “I was wondering if it would be possible if you could provide me with the MPU or AVE and the circulation for the DailyDOOH as I am researching advertising rates for a potential client.” and again when we ask the simple question of “who’s it for?” we get in response “I am at the very early stages of collating a list for the client, so unfortunately I wouldn’t be able to give you this information at this stage.”

In terms of (2) and (5) it’s a real shame that folks have to be so deceitful and dishonest. We’ve long known that the majority of so called ‘research’ in our industry is simply made up by ‘interns’ ringing round and getting numbers and opinion from anyone they can blag 5 minutes on the phone with and we don’t have enough fingers and toes to count the number of PR agencies who have asked for ‘price lists’ for errr clients.

^†As the Judge said to Caspar Schlitz “I hereby sentence you to be hanged by the neck until you cheer up” … earlier in the Monty Python sketch; Prosecutor to Caspa Schlitz “I put it to you that you were, on February 5th this year, very depressed with malice aforethought, and did moan quietly, contrary to the Cheerful Noises Act.”

From left to right Adrian Cotterill, Geny Caloisi, Jorge Garcia de Bustos and Andrew Neale in front of ‘Lady Godiva Avec Les Papillons’ – a rather expensive Salvador Dali sculpture for sale.

Anyway DailyDOOH Towers will be very quiet today as the team are in Islington, London to celebrate said nuptials. As you can see from our revised header for the weekend (thanks as usual to mooKuh) it’s also a marriage between Spain and Germany as well as a marriage between clever and cleverer, nice and nicer.

As Gail Chiasson is also about to jump on a plane in Montreal and head to London in preparation for #ScreenMediaExpo next week we are all going to be doubly quiet (i.e both sides of the Atlantic) today and tomorrow.

Anyway a good day is in store for all. We’d like to wish the newly married couple all the best from everyone here at DailyDOOH Towers.

We’d like to introduce a handful of new advertisers who will be with us for the next couple of months: Adsonscreen, RMG Networks (who have signed up for the whole year!), the Digital Screenmedia Association and Navori.

As usual, thanks to ALL of them because, quite simply, without advertisers you would not have a DailyDOOH.

To see in the start of 2011 we are pleased to announce (and of course thank) new advertiser DIGICOM as well as #ISEUROPE / #DiSCO11, #dse2011 and #CETW who are all advertising their events with us once again.

Intel Corporation of course became our title sponsor back in November and come January we have a couple of networks and an industry association that are also likely to come on board.

Limited Space and ONELAN have both also booked email campaigns with us in January.

As usual, thanks to ALL of them because, quite simply, without advertisers you would not have a DailyDOOH.

We nearly had a genuine DailyDOOH birthday boy in the family but missed out by 2 days! Happiness and congratulations all round!

Undoubtedly we will be running nearer the time, a couple of stories and some special banner advertisements to celebrate the birthday as well

Normal service will be resumed Monday 5th July.