Archive for April, 2008

Fairfield Stand At Sign And Digital UK

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Fairfield Displays And Lighting‘s stand at the event was nicely put together as you would expert from a shop fitter / window display business. Not that much to excite anyone with regard digital there though.

EnQii eNews

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Nice first ever newsletter from the folks at EnQii, which starts off with a message from their CEO, Ajay Chowdhury as follows… “First, let me thank you for your continued relationship with EnQii. This, our first EnQii newsletter, is intended to provide EnQii’s customers and the wider digital out-of-home community with our thoughts on what’s […]

Sign And Digital UK 2008

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Well we managed to get the Digital and Sign UK show over with today. Those who know me well know that I am often prone to exaggeration but SERIOUSLY we took one of our clients around the show this morning in 5 minutes and 27 seconds!!! Daktronics had a large LED and were showing off […]

Industry Associations

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

In the US we see that most recently the Out-of-Home Video Advertising Bureau (OVAB) has signed up CBS Outernet, Zoom Media and Arena Media Networks as members. In Europe we have DOOHM (we so love that name) in the Netherlands (who have been clever we think by keeping it exclusive – the only members at […]

Exclusive – GameStop Chooses Vendors For 4,000 Locations

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We understand that US retailer GameStop is set to announce next month that it has selected Reflect Systems to be the delivery platform for it’s 4,000 venues for a signage system AND for CBS Outernet to handle all the media sales and content. That’s one hell of a deal and of course you heard it […]

Tower Of Terror

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Adwalker are doing some interesting “Photo Marketing” work in conjunction with the Disneyland Paris “Tower of Terror” Campaign in London. It’s a four week campaign where Adwalker use Bluetooth and 3G technology to send photographs of people on the street from the Adwalker screens to Ocean Outdoor’s giant billboard on the corner of Oxford Street […]

Dot One Digital Media

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Dot One Digital Media is the new name for the new company co-owned by both NEO Advertising and Dot One which covers the Portugese / Iberian market place. Their new site is up http://www.dotonedigitalmedia.com/

abc media Are Recruiting

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Those nice folks at abc media are recruiting and as our recent efforts recruiting for people has been (bizarrely) rather succesful we said we had no problem in advertising for them here also… Following a successful 2007 and a third successive year of growth abc media group are looking for new, experienced staff. We are […]

Charity Work, We Do For Macmillan

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

“Dear Adrian, I am an analyst at Frost & Sullivan, a research and consulting organisation. We are currently trying to understand the development of digital signage demand in Europe. I visited your blog and found it very useful. Would it be possible to arrange a time with you to speak about this please?” To which […]

Inspiration In A Barber’s Chair…

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

“Inspiration in a barber’s chair”, we are told, “brought TV screens into Salons” – so said Mike Anster, i-vu CEO to the Daily Telegraph earliler this week, Business Section 22nd April 2008. i-vu seem regularly to be in the mainstream press these days which is good.