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Just over four weeks to go now until #DpbMedia week in New York City, which kicks off 21 October 2013 and as we promised we have continued to update this post with a day by day list of events. Coming soon, more details on the RMG Upfront, a Scala event with one of their big [...]

Following on from our tease back in July ‘Two New @ForrestMedia1 Digital Screens, Scotland‘ Managing Director at Forrest, Marc Keenan tells us that Scotland’s premium Out of Home media owner are officially launching the two new digital screens on Monday. CityScreen Edinburgh will be the capital city’s first ever large format roadside commercial advertising screen. [...]

We note that Eliane Tremblay, previously at Zoom Media (since 2001) has joined Bell Média / Astral Affichage as Directrice Produits Transport.

Airpod has announced that from October 2013 it will begin installation of high-end digital portrait advertising screens across its shopping centre network to compliment its existing six-sheet paper network. We were told that the management team at Airpod have been carefully monitoring the advertising market for digital OOH, and in line with the recent upturn [...]

Always so professional are the marketing team at Ocean Outdoor that all the judges get their ‘Entry Reading Material’ well in advance… The judges first meet on Thursday 26th September and the big day, of course, open to all, who RSVP is Thursday 10th October at the IMAX, Waterloo, London.

Toronto-based TTUFF Technologies has embedded 3G Machine-to-wireless communications in its new series of Open Pluggable Specification modular PCs – a solution that it says, removes much of the cost and complication of running widely dispersed digital signage networks. Using 3G M2M networks can cut typical broadband connection fees in half, remove landline installation costs and [...]

AV Magazine reported Thursday by twitter that, we quote “Rob Muddiman has moved from Magenta to be the sales director EMEA for ZeeVee #avtweeps”

Two hundred people turned up this morning for the 7th Digital Signage Conference in Munich…

We haven’t officially seen an invite ourselves yet but are reliably told that RMG Networks have started inviting media buyers and planners to their upfront during NYC #DpbMedia Week. It is, we believe, being held at the Carlyle and they seem to have two dates for media people to choose from; the afternoon of Friday [...]

Izon Media’s (nee PRN) contract to run the Walmart Network ends this Fall, however a retailer would be mad to rip anything out just before Christmas (the ‘Holiday Season’ to you Americans) so we hear that it will stay until January or February 2014 BUT then that will be it. We are reliably informed that [...]