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CBS Outdoor’s Large LED, Westfield, London

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

There will be at some time soon, three large LEDs at Westfield, London that CBS Outdoor will use for advertising along with their Pods.
Shown above is the only LED currently installed - conveniently enough caught on camera whilst showing the CBS Outdoor Alive logo. Whilst we were on site we saw a commercial for [...]

Adrian J Cotterill

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This Is Definitely Not Stonehenge

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

We thought we ought to enter this photograph into a photo competition - what do you think? We can just imagine the caption “CBS Outdoor’s Pod stands there in the morning sunshine casting shadows over the south entrance” !!!!
Contractually we expect (we do not know for a fact) that the folks who put these [...]

Adrian J Cotterill

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Wayfinding Service, Westfield, London

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

There were lots of good things at the new Westfield shopping centre in London. We loved these virtual keyboards that were part of the wayfinding service.
Great interface, large screens, clearly laid out, fitted in with the surroundings, simple to use AND on Westfield’s very first opening day at least there were lots of lovely [...]

Chris Sheldrake

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Latest YCD Email Newsletter

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Very nice YCD email newsletter comes out today (we think we were the first to see it). Interesting articles about: -

Shoppers Consumed by CROCS
WIMPY Gets Wired
Arbitron’s Report on Retail Video Displays

And the Employee Spotlight is on Guy Shavitt, their Vice President R&D
Take a look for yourself here http://www.ycdmultimedia.com/

Adrian J Cotterill

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Wireless Ronin’s Stock Continues To Fall

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Wireless Ronin Technologies (Nasdaq: RNIN) stock continued to fall this morning - it’s already down some 20.00% or more and is currently trading between 69 and 71 cents.

Chris Sheldrake

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The DailyDOOH 2009 Tour

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Well it’s not really a tour - as one would guess a ‘tour’ would be non stop, i.e. go from place to place BUT it sounded better than ‘DailyDOOH Event Attendance’ which in affect it really is.
Whilst our kids get excited about Christmas (and yes many adults too, and of course New Year’s Eve), we [...]

Adrian J Cotterill

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The “Underpants Gnomes”

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Here in the office we have been looking through our archive (the same web based blog archive that you too can search - top right hand corner of this web site) doing some research for a post near Xmas or during the New Year that will see us tell you our favourite posts and articles [...]

Chris Sheldrake

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Mike Silverman Joins i-vu

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

This may be old news to some (we doubt it though) but we haven’t seen a press release about it and our web spiders and alerts certainly haven’t picked it up either but we understand that Mike Silverman, formerly with the Thomson / Technicolor business units joined i-vu back in July 2008.
In fact, apart from [...]

Chris Sheldrake

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InAVation Awards ’09 Entry Deadline Looms

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

There are a couple of things we really like about these EMEA+ InAVation Awards…

No Entry Fee
The focus on EMEA
Digital Signage has its own category

Mind you, the final deadline for project entries is 18:00 (CET) on 23rd November 2008 so if you want to enter get moving!!
Just to remind you what the categories are…

Command & Control
Corporate/Business
Digital [...]

Adrian J Cotterill

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JC Decaux’s Digital Torch Also Sees Pink

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

There has been a lot of good content this year on JC Decaux’s Digital Torch - for those that don’t know this is the large LED that runs alongside the M4 motorway on the flyover into London (shown above).
We can see Pink making a really good impression here, as well as on the ‘5 Giant [...]

Chris Sheldrake

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