Archive for February, 2008

FTSE 100 FMCG Interactive Screen Roll-Out

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Two of the most interesting announcements that came out of this morning’s Adwalker AGM was their update on the FTSE 100 FMCG Interactive Screen Roll-Out – more in terms of what was NOT said rather than what was and news of two new Senior industry specialists appointed as Non-Executive Directors Eric Newman, Global CEO of […]

First Pictures of iCan

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here’s the first pictures published anywhere of the iCan we wrote about yesterday and a few weeks ago

“Best Temporary Design’ Award

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We see that Mediazest are sponsoring the “Best Temporary Design” award at next Tuesday 4th March Design Week Awards ’08 at the UK;s Hilton Park Lane, London. Mediazest do a fair bit of trade press advertising and have been successful in generating a number of very good relationships with retail store designers via their work […]

Adwalker AGM today

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We are expecting an update today from Adwalker at their AGM – especially of interest will be their fixed retail deal with Unilever with regard Ice Cream – which has never been officially announced / approved or even recognised.

Cisco’s Academy of Digital Signage

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

With the exception of Incidium we have featured in some detail all of the ‘global’ partners that Cisco mentioned in their press release, “Global Qualification Program Will Help Jump-Start Creation of Trusted Professional Content and Create Communities of Interest for Digital Signage Industry”. MediaZest, Dagobert and BlueFox were all mentioned by name as having signed […]

Cisco DMS at Cairo ICT 2008

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We didn’t get to go but we see that Cisco’s DMS was a prominent part of its involvement at Cairo ICT 2008, we quote… Cisco will debut, for the fist time in a public event in Egypt, its world-leading Digital Media System on its stand which will be experienced on a wide 9 square meters […]

Dynamax Puts Foot in Mouth

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Dynamax succeeded in cheesing off most of the UK’s Press Corps this morning with a cc: email instead of a bcc: to all (well over 100 emaiil addresses). Anyway I am sure that we have all done this before BUT to add insult to injury there seemed to be some sort of ‘buy one get […]

Digiboard’s Health Network

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Digiboard have a wide variety of digital screen networks in Turkey, ranging from shopping malls and airport terminals, to Hospitals, they are by far the largest screen network owner in the region. If you just take their hospital network, they reach over 10,000,000 people a year, broadcasting 24 hours a day to 110 screens, running […]

Elton Takes David Up The Aisle

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We like to think we are usually the first to cover new networks and new initiatives – you heard it here first sort of thing!!! We covered this iCan innovation a fortnight ago but have just heard that they have cemented a deal with the UK’s Daily Mail newspaper. The device itself is not that […]

Global Market for Digital Signage

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We note that the Indian firm Northern Sky Research (NSR), they classify themselves as a Market Research and Consulting firm, are doing a Market Research report entitled the Global Market for Digital Signage NRS’s customers typically have been the largest Telecom operators and so digital signage to them, is we believe a slightly new business […]