Archive for December, 2007

Top 10 Digital Signage Vendors 2008 Part 2

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

On Friday 21st December 2007 we posted our list of Top 10 Digital Signage Vendors… =1 Cisco =1 EnQii 3. Broadsign 4. C-nario 5. YCD 6. ScreenRed 7. Scala 8. Remotemedia 9. TELentice 10.Stratacache In that first post we detailed the (obvious) folks who never made our ‘cut’. Now it’s time to look in a […]

Picturing the future of old and new outdoor ads

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

CBS Outdoor’s Tim Bleakly wrote in Marketing Week’s Supplement ’08 The Year Ahead Digital Edition’ (page 24) about ‘Picturing the future of old and new outdoor ads’ It’s online here

Guinness ‘Try Time’ Competition

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Further to our previous post, thanks to friends of ours, Max and Guy, two local Rugby fans we have a couple of pictures of the Adwalker Guinness campaign. It is being run, we understand from the girls wearing the digital Adwalker units, at all major Rugby grounds (we heard a report from a Saturday game […]

Glassy New Landmark (and Lots of Screens)

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

BAA’s new Terminal 5 which opens at 5am on Thursday, 27 March 2008 will not only be a ‘glassy new landmark’ as described by the Independent newspaper it will also be a mecca to all things digital signage. JC Decaux tell us that 90% of their display faces at Terminal 5 will be digital! The […]

Adwalker with Guinness Promotions at Rugby this weekend

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We have heard of Adwalker folks being at some of the Guinness Rugby Premiership games with their digital sandwich boards this weekend. We are trying to get some pictures for you. Adwalker are based in Dublin and err, of course, so too are Guinness so it doesn’t take much of a genius 😉 to put […]

i-design Group Plc ORD GBP0.10 (IDG)

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

i-design, the folks behind the innovative ATM:ad get a very brief mention in The Scotsman (UK Newspaper) on 29th December 2007 in an article non-DOOH related about the slowdown in businesses listing on the UK’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM). i-design Group Plc ORD GBP0.10 (IDG) of course came to AIM in 2007, initially opening at […]

ScreenFX acquires Theme Park Media

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

ScreenFX at its recent EGM announced the name of the acquisition that it had trumpeted back in early December but had previously declined to name. That company is Screen Media Networks Ltd – in that guise someone we have never heard of (but on that subject more later). Screen Media Networks Ltd (“SMN”) is (we […]

HSBC France / SMC Rollout

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The folks at TellerTV beat me to the news about this rollout in France with HSBC and their subsidiary Societe Marseillaise de Credit (SMC). They deserve the traffic, click here for the full story.

What’s the point of Cabvision?

Friday, December 28th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Mark Lawson is a UK Guardian columnist and main presenter of BBC Radio 4’s “Front Row“. Yesterday in the Guardian he wrote an article entitled “What’s the point of Cabvision” which is reproduced below or can be read here. Cabvision of course is London’s captive audience screen network and describes itself as “an in cab […]

Digital Signage EXPO2008 (Essen, Germany)

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A couple of Dutch vendors have told us that they will be attending the pan-European Digital Signage EXPO2008 6, 7, 8 May 2008 in Essen Germany. The event is described as “the only truly pan-European event for digital signage solutions” though I think we would agree that Screen Expo Europe is also in that fold. […]