Some very exciting and upbeat news from the UK’s Alternative Investment Market (AIM) today from Vision Media Group International (VMG) in a slightly later than expected trading statement (we predicted first that it would have been last week, then re-stated yesterday and finally it came today - we think they were just avoiding the news [...]

Interesting article written yesterday and posted today in South Africa on How Digital Marketing Boosts Retail Sales…
Speaking at the recent Marketing-at-Retail Workshop in Johannesburg, One Digital Media CEO Mike Bosman illustrated why digital media at retail is becoming a force to be reckoned with in South Africa’s retail marketing arena.
According to independent research conducted recently [...]

Based on the title alone I would expect a large number of you to immediately think of the one and only Tina Turner !!!
Which brings me onto this latest piece of creative for City Gateway Media and their huge 19m x 4m screen in Manchester. The international director for Tina Turner’s 2009 world tour wanted [...]

We see that SignTech picked up on EnQii’s Liberty travel install
See http://www.nbm.com/digital/edition/te/08/06/LR/TEJUN046

Glenn Collins wrote in the New York Times on Saturday about an even bigger and brighter billboard coming soon to Times Square…
They could be 212-foot-high, flat black stealth bomber wings studded with tiny jewels, soaring 17 stories above the crossroads of the world.
Soon enough, their gemlike lights will glow brilliantly as the signature elements of [...]

Tiled LCD or TFT PDP are the only way to go if you want a cost effective big screen, viewable close up (LED does not ‘cut it’ when it comes to close distance viewing) but even the Orion tiled plasma systems have big bevels between each screen.
This picture was taken in the Royal Festival Hall [...]

We have heard a rumour that Enqii have secured a big shopping mall win in China!
We believe that it could be for as many as 100 shopping malls

From the pictures we have seen, and the money we are told was spent, this really looks like a showcase Showcase installation (if you get what we mean).
To be fair, Beaver Group are pretty good at this sort of thing - in the UK they are up there with AMX in terms of doing great [...]

The folks over at s3mer (one assumes that this is pronounced ’streamer’) are yet another entrant into the now-crowded free signage software market.
These folks distinguish themselves somewhat however by being pretty much a cross platform solution - as Mac fans we like their support for OSX and of course their ’soon in Linux’ offering…
Our software [...]

We are pretty close now to having 3,000 LinkedIn contacts - this size network is quite useful as a ‘hub’ for introducing people to each other so if you ever want to get in contact with someone in the industry then please - search for them on LinkedIn as it is extremely likely that we [...]