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If you thought your networks were big then take a look at the size of just TWO of the networks being deployed in India at the moment… Reliance Retail Business, part of Reliance Industries Ltd (INDIA) is launching a global Digital Signage Service in 1,000 Hypermarkets and 2,000 retail stores – that will be close […]

Wednesday, July 25, 2007 21:07 The Digital OOH industry across EMEA desperately needs to break out of its niche and enter the mainstream… …hats off then to StreetBroadcast who took the bold step of taking the WHOLE back page of Marketing Week (July 12th 2007) – see attached graphic. StreetBroadcast have been doing a lot […]

MIS Rebrand Q&A’s Tuesday, July 24, 2007 19:16 It is expected that on Monday 30th July Dunnhumby will issue a press release stating that TescoTV will become Tesco Screens. This follows on from several other UK re-branding exercises: – – As previously reported, MIS (best known for SubPostmasterTV) has now grouped the Post Office, Local […]

Monday, July 23, 2007 19:08 Late 2006 and early 2007 saw a number of UK screen network operators go out of business – AdtechDSN, Smartbox and Cabtivate to name just a few. I remember at the time, fielding calls from a number of European network owners who looked to the UK as a bellwether for […]

Friday, July 20, 2007 22:48 Two years ago I helped win some screen network business with Cisco in Portugal with Caixa Geral de Depositos – CGD is the 2nd largest retail bank in Portugal. At that time, we were competing against Portugal Telecom; who associated 1. banks with money (correct) 2. money with stocks (perhaps) […]

Thursday, July 19, 2007 15:10 Congratulations to Tijmen Bos, Managing Director, Librium.TV who has recently also become Chairman at BV DOOHM (Trade Association) and Chairman of the Supervisory Board at Stichting De Ster. http://www.doohm.nl/ Congratulations to Jason Cremins, Owner and Chief Executive at Remote Media Limited who this week also become Chairman of the UK […]

Wednesday, July 18, 2007 12:22 It’s great to see a traditional media business show confidence in the digital out of home sector, which is exactly what the Telegraaf Media Groep N.V. (TMG) have done, I believe, by increasing their equity stake in Media Librium / Librium TV (in the Netherlands) from 40% to 84%. TMG […]

Monday, July 16, 2007 14:51 Much research suggests that Napoleon may never have uttered the words “nation of shopkeepers” – even if he did, they were definitely not his to utter – originally being quoted by Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations (1776). It always surprises me that retailers the world over continually claim […]

Saturday, July 14, 2007 22:46 There are many ways that our industry encourages interactivity with deployed screen networks – SMS, (MMS to a lesser extent until the networks sort out the short code issues), bluetooth, touch screen interfaces etc. This latter technology used to be pretty much the preserve of traditional ‘kiosk’ vendors but not […]

Saturday, July 14, 2007 09:23 You will remember a month or so back I sent out details about TRICAST – seen around London. These are the bike / trikes, owned and managed by Captive People, powered by Jason Cremin’s remotemedia signagelive software, coupled with Bluetooth from Breezetech. The bikes must have bred (or I have […]