I am an avid reader of newspapers and magazines but unfortunately not a regular reader of the Grauniad <sic> and so missed this interesting article “Billboards are sticking around - with or without glue” on Monday of this week. It was written by an ‘authority’ and so well worth a read.
See http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2007/oct/29/
I missed it [...]

City Gateway Media with their screen up in Manchester have been running a lot of nice, well known brand name campaigns recently.
Shown above is that lovely French lady in the Marks&Spencer commercials - showing off of course that great and still unique, long thin digital screen.
Other campaigns shown recently have included: -

Hewlett Packard
Marks & Spencers [...]

Screen Events, the folks of course behind Screen Expo have issued a call for papers, inviting exhibitors and attendees to submit proposals for speaking in the four show-floor theatres: -

The Content Theatre
The Advertising Centre
Network Owners’ Pavilion
Thought Leadership Pavilion

Contact Barnaby Page, Editor, Screen Media Magazine, via Barnaby@barnabypage.com or visit www.screenevents.co.uk/screenexpo2008/ if you are interested.
Screen Expo has [...]

In the UK we are ‘blessed’ with a couple of nice Gym and Health and Fitness Centre screen networks.
Gym ScreenMedia has come about through the amalgamation of Gym TV - a provider of Music and lifestyle TV services and Screen Media - who offered interactive information channels.
www.gymscreenmedia.com

On Screen Solutions Ltd in Northern Ireland have just competed their first POS install for Coca-Cola (shown above).
The screen is located in a busy petrol filling station convenience store on one of the main commuter routes into Belfast.
It’s a 32” LCD operated through Panasonic NMstage software (yes Panasonic do have customers!!).
Content is produced by On [...]

ScreenFX says it is to buy an unnamed business.
As they do not have any money and are desperately trying to dispose of their TrainFX network in next 2 months it is no surprise that the acquisition (should it ever happen) is to be “wholly funded by shares”
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - Digital advertising and communications specialist [...]

Quite a bit of people movement in our industry in the last 6 weeks which deserves a mention. In strict surname alphabetical order here goes…

Mike Baker is leaving Point Four / Decision Vision to join UTV Radio Group
Katy Barbary has left Brightspace Media as they close their office down in London
Brian Broakes left BT [...]

It is great to see Bose bringing their newly launched SoundDock Portable and their revolutionary In-Ear headphones closer to the iPod generation by running a London-wide Tricast campaign. This is the 3rd time that Captive People have convinced Bose (and their media planners) to run a campaign in the digital out of home sector.
It’s [...]

Grand Visual created this unique multi panel, time sensitive concept for CBS Outdoor’s Digital Escalator Panels (DEPs) in London.
I like the campaign copy which changes every hour, on the hour obviously mimicking the real time format of the programme - real time changes has not been done before on the DEPs.
Claire Mallender, Brand Manager [...]

EnQii (previously Digital View Media) have announced an interesting deal with CustomWeather in order to deliver flash-based weather services to their customers.
Even as an Englishman (and all we ever do is talk about the weather) you know my thoughts on weather as a piece of content - it ranks (i.e. not highly) next to my [...]