Archive for August, 2007
Friday, August 31st, 2007
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Investors’ confidence has been shaken these last few months by the continued trials and tribulations of various digital signage and screen related businesses listed on the stockmarkets of Europe.
Good to see then that Adwalker (AIM:AWR), the specialist in wearable media solutions announced some good looking final results.
Turnover in the first 6 months of the current [...]
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
I can only imagine that the likes of Scala, Hughes Network Systems, Applied Television and the Instrumental Media group – who have all been involved with Tesco Screens (nee TV) to date had 5 year contracts – as I believe that Tesco’s are almost ready to go out to tender again.
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Trying to prove that anything placed in a shop window display (digital or otherwise) has a sales or branding affect is never easy.
In a recent test to establish the effectiveness of the Virgin Megastore Digital Screen Network, Virgin have been monitoring the sales performance of Avril Lavigne’s latest album ‘The Best Damn Thing’ (my middle [...]
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Thursday, August 30th, 2007
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Congratulations to Rajesh and his team at VJIVE Networks who yesterday (August 29, 2007) were named as “Red Herring 100 Asia” Award Winners for 2007.
VJIVE were described as “one of the 100 Most Promising Private Technology Ventures in Asia Pacific”
Winners were selected from a pool of more than 500 applicants based in 16 countries including [...]
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning campaign is now live and in-venues. I am interested in any sightings, photographs etc, from as far as field as possible.
Thanks to the generosity of (20+) UK networks, the campaign is running in Northern Ireland, Scotland, the North of England, the Midlands, London and the South East, Wales and [...]
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
There’s obviously something about having a “close season” for your network.
For a few weeks every year (much fewer than you might think actually), MDM.TV’s network effectively closes down as the football season takes its annual end of season summer break.
This is usually time for MDM.TV to do preventative maintenance on its network, move a few [...]
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Wednesday, August 29th, 2007
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Taxis Bleus, I am told, is the largest European Radio Taxi Company with over 3,000 vehicles.
Info-ecran in Paris can lay claim to being the first digital taxi-cab media advertising business in continental Europe and was formed about the same time as the UK’s Cabvision (still going strong) and Cabtivate (no longer around).
There is also Newscab [...]
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Neo Advertising have just announced that they have purchased a stake in iTraxx – a company with a package of themed radio stations (which are freely available on the Internet).
See http://www.traxx.fm for more details.
Within Switzerland, iTraxx, are well known as the specialist in the development and broadcasting of IP radio.
What does this (new) partnership mean?
Well, [...]
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Texaco are I believe just about to annnounce the roll out of a 6 Site Forecourt Screen Trial in the UK.
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Finalists have been selected for this year’s AV Awards (run by AV Interactive and held on October 12 at The Hilton Park Lane, London).
The AV AWARDS 2007 FINALISTS for Digital Signage project of the year are…
Camelot Digital Signage Network, by Remote Media
Dolphin Centre, by Panasonic System Solutions
Flexible Branding, by Pixel Inspiration
Paulsgrove Axcess, by Hugh Symons [...]
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