Archive for February, 2008

Bright Lights, Big Impact

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

INC. Magazine is a US magazine, the ‘Daily Resource for Entrepreneurs’ – March 2008 sees an interesting article entitled ‘Bright Lights, Big Impact – Why digital billboards are growing in popularity’ Bill Gerba, author of the blog Digital Signage News and CEO of WireSpring, a Fort Lauderdale, Florida, company that makes software for electronic signage, […]

On Target with Major New Exhibitors

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Last week Kiosk Expo Europe and Digital Signage Expo 2008 released a press release detailing their progress on attracting ‘Major New Exhibitors’ Again, we see Scala make a very sensible, informed decision on where to spend their stand / exhibition / marketing spend (that’s two nice things we have said about Scala in one day, […]

Enterprise Ireland Invests in Adwalker

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Adwalker plc, the Dublin based AIM quoted digital media company, today announced that Enterprise Ireland, the Irish state development agency, has purchased 12,369,800 ordinary shares at 1.5p per share raising €250,000 (approximately £185,000). In addition to this purchase Enterprise Ireland has awarded Adwalker a Research and Development Grant of up to €250,000 (approximately £185,000). A […]

Decouvrez Ottawa – The Community Channel Has!

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The Community Channel network announcement that we knew was coming was perhaps a little bit bigger than we thought. The Community Channel, fresh from setting up a network down under are now setting their sights on the North American continent and have set up base in Ottawa, Canada. Their target is 1,500 venues within 3 […]

Latest City Gateway Media Campaigns…

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

City Gateway Media on their Manchester, UK site have been running campaigns over the last few weeks for: – BBC for the new series of “Streetlegal” Premier Real Estate – an Algarve based estate agency Greater Manchester Police Anti Terrorism campaign Transworld Publishing for the release of David Hall’s book marking the 50th anniversary of […]

Euroshop 2008 – Impressionen

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A nice read in German and some good pictures of EuroShop again here http://www.mittelstandswiki.de/invidis/2008/02/euroshop-2008-impressionen/

Dynamax Technologies: DS Expo Stand #123

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Dynamax Technologies is currently ramping up its global marketing and communications efforts and we are told views the Las Vegas Digital Signage Expo as critically-important event to the company. It’s pretty obvious that Dynamax has invested significant resources in its presence at Digital Signage Expo – a 20′ x 30′ stand like that shown above, […]

EuroShop – Was Too Good To Miss!

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Judging by all the people we de-briefed who attended and exhibited the EuroShop event (EuroShop is the Global Retail Trade Fair held at Messe Düsseldorf, Germany which ends today) it was well worth the digital signage folks attending. Whilst it is okay (AND important) for the industry to have its own “Digital Signage” expos and […]

Good Reports from EuroShop

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A number of people have rung and emailed us and told us how good they found EuroShop in Dusseldorf to be over the last few days. We are told it was a massive show and the Digital Signage section had 3 – 5 halls filled with content, hardware and software. We are expecting a couple […]

Australian Betting Shops

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We have just heard that there is an interesting digital signage pilot implementation going on in Australia at the moment – as Mike Fabian famously joked “this industry has more pilots than the RAF” – but this is actually of interest because of who is building it. We always quote and believe in the mantra […]