Archive for March, 2008

DMS New Web Site

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

The UK’s Digital Media Sales (DMS) who describe themselves as a “a market leading, established and experienced media sales company specialising in airtime sales and consultancy for Digital Television, Outdoor and Broadband channels” have a new web site up.
Compared to many web sites in the media sales industry it’s not bad - actually it’s quite [...]

Adrian J Cotterill

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The Billboard Liberation Front

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

The problem with stories and especially pictures of ‘hacked’ billboards is whether to believe them or not - it’s more likely that someone has been making creative use of Photoshop (or the billboard owner is faking it themselves for a bit of guerilla / viral marketing) !!!
The picture above is take from Gizmodo (not sure [...]

Adrian J Cotterill

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Big Announcement From WindowGain

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008


WindowGain have been a bit quiet recently though brand campaigns seem to have been flowing through their window screens quite nicely this year.
It seems that both Verizon Wireless and boston.com have committed campaigns to the WindowGain display network in Boston. Adam Dell, CEO of WindowGain tells us that “are adding additional signs locally [...]

Adrian J Cotterill

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iChair

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

These iChair’s are targeted at the pub and restaurant sector. Each childrens’ highchair has a dual screen DVD player.
The idea is that the highchair vends a variety of programmes targeted at the under two’s or older children seated opposite.
They are exhibiting at Publican Live, Stand: 361, which opens in London next week.

Adrian J Cotterill

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MediaZest Non-Exec Lifts Stake to 13.9%

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

We guess a vote of confidence in the business and in the digital out of home sector in general, Lance O’Neill, the non-executive chairman of MediaZest has just bought 1,570,000 shares in the business, lifting his stake in the company to 13.9%
LONDON (Thomson Financial) - MediaZest PLC said its non-executive chairman Lance O’Neill bought 1.57 [...]

Adrian J Cotterill

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Digital Signage: The State of the Art and the Promise for the Next Five Years

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Digital Signage Today has just published a 77-page guide entitled “Digital Signage: The State of the Art and the Promise for the Next Five Years” - it’s very good and well worth downloading and reading.
Hats off to Scala who sponsored it. The paper is VERY well laid out and incredibly easy to read [...]

Adrian J Cotterill

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Welkom bij Librium.TV

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Ahead of this month’s CEO Spotlight we think it’s well worth taking a look at the depth and breadth of Librium’s network. We ourselves often make the mistake of simply associating them with McDonalds (albeit a massive 175 restaurant chain rollout - impeccably done at that) but they actually have lots of other networks [...]

Adrian J Cotterill

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New F1 GPP “Content Pack” Available

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

For those networks that have been taking our Formula 1 Grand Prix Preview programmes we are next week (based on customer feedback) launching a slightly revised ‘Content Pack’, probably as follows: -

10 second GPP identity sequence / race preview
30 second Driver and Constructor Tables animated sequence
30 second GPP video footage compilation sequence
120 second 3D track [...]

Adrian J Cotterill

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More Seven Figure Funding Announcements

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

OBUS plc, the owners of INTATV, which offers music jukeboxes and screen networks to the UK Leisure industry is to make a major announcement by the end of this week (and hey! it’s a short week too).
We are expecting a seven figure funding announcement as well as a new board structure and possibly a new [...]

Adrian J Cotterill

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New Client For Avanti Screen Media

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008

Nice to see that LG phones, who we recently reported as playing out through Boomerang Digital have become a new client also for Avanti Screen Media in their pubs, clubs and bars (though not Malls we believe).
We also understand that a Budweiser campaign will be running shortly in both Avanti Screen Media and Brightspace Media [...]

Adrian J Cotterill

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