Archive for October, 2007

2007 Deloitte Technology Fast 50

Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Congratulations to ONELAN Ltd who have just been named Number 26 in the 2007 Deloitte Technology Fast 50 – a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the UK. ONELAN were also 5th in the South East Top 5. To determine the fastest growing companies, Deloitte reviewed fiscal year revenues over the last […]

Presentations for Digital Signage Asia 2007

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The presentation titles and topics are now in from all the speakers for the Digital Signage Asia 2007 conference and I have listed them below. The event of course is just 4 weeks away now. Barnaby Page is moderating the event and I have been asked to close the conference with a summary of the […]

Digiboard Turkey

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Digiboard is one of the largest Digital Signage networks in Turkey with over 39 venues but it is definitely the most visible! www.digiboard.com.tr Any visitor to Turkey would see their screens at Istanbul, Ankara, Antalya and Bodrum airports and also in the THY Istanbul and Ankara CIP lounges. Turkey is full of fantastic shopping malls […]

Tesco – Then and Now

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Our friends over at the Shopping behaviour specialist ShopperCentric (they like to distinguish between shopping behaviour and consumer bahaviour) have written an interesting research report on the new look TescoScreens. You can download it below… http://www.shoppercentric.com/ It’s worthwhile recapping where TescoTV was and where TescoScreens is now. Remember that whilst mistakes were so obviously made […]

MediaZest in launch issue of Brand Management magazine

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Nice to see MediaZest in the inaugural / launch issue of Brand Management magazine. The article entitled “Supplying POS solutions” on pages 38 – 41 talks about their Diesel store activities http://www.mediazest.com/

Glasgow schools use Digital Signage to encourage healthy eating

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

When we categorise our industry and classify schools, colleges, universties (the Education sector in general) as self-funded networks (i.e. they pay for the rollout / deployment themselves) we forget perhaps what opportunities there can still be on the network for goodwill and / or 3rd party messages. Here’s a nice example courtesy of ONELAN, the […]

India’s answer to the Phone Warehouse

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This looks like India’s equivalent to the UK / continent’s Carphone Warehouse / Phone Warehouse outlets. Funny how mobile stores the world over are similar – the photo looks very much like T for Telekom outlets (POSTV screen networks in Netherlands). The Mobile Store is projecting to grow over the next 2 years from an […]

UK Local Advertising Specialist

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Screen Media Sales has started to carry out local media sales for the petrol forecourt and convenience store network Big Media Group – the estate comprises over 250 convenience stores at independent petrol stations and stores are either own brand or from a symbol group (SPAR, Mace, Costcutter, Nisa, Budgens, Londis). Screen Media Sales is […]

Deutsche Postbank 850 Venues

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

More details are emerging on the Deutsche Postbank screen network rollout – though for some reason Postbank and T-Systems seem to be trying to keep a lid on what is publicly announced. It’s for 850 venues T-Systems, a division of Deutsche Telekom, won the contract. http://www.t-systems.com/ 42media group are delivering the technical solution – this […]

iCapture Proactive Merchandising Features

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Something that I strongly suggested that Trumedia do is work with the leading CMS, DS software providers and (better) integrate their audience measurement camera systems into various signage solutions. The first of these integrations is going to be announced today I believe at the Scala 2007 EMEA Partner Conference in Amsterdam (many of you asked […]