Archive for May, 2008

Eye Magnet Lynx3 Hybrid Girls

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

This picture shows the Eye Magnet solution used in the Lynx3 Hybrid campaign in action. The chap on the left of the shot in the stripey polo shirt will be in the picture itself (in the next post). Underneath the screen in the centre of the shot you can see the camera that takes the […]

Bringing To Life Lynx Beautiful Women

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Unsurprisingly the Lynx series of TV Commercials, usually featuring a bevy of beautiful women, proves pretty successful wherever and however it is played out. We have seen Lynx, the deodorant company use digital out of home in many countries around the world and the latest is in New Zealand where Eye Magnet have deployed a […]

COMPUTEX TAIPEI

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We see that Cayin Technology are sponsoring (supplying) the digital signage system for the COMPUTEX TAIPEI show, 3rd to 7th June 2008. They also have a booth.

Industry Joke (Humour)

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

To brighten up ‘Le Weekend’ – or Monday morning depending whether you own a Blackberry or not we guess, here is the first industry specific joke we have heard… QUESTION: Why is it a good idea to put screens in W H Smith stores? W H Smith plc (known colloquially as Smiths) is a British […]

Retail Design Dynamics Conference

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

For those of you in the UK and interested in Retail there are two / three people presenting at this Retail Design Dynamics conference 23rd June 2008, Masterclass 24th June 2008, London that will be of particular interest in listening to… Jeremy Wright, Retail Concept Director, Nokia Penny Ericson, Director & Jamie Rayner, Director, Shoppercentric […]

W.i.m.b.l.e.d.o.n..S.c.o.r.e.b.o.a.r.d

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

As digital industry pundits / analysts / movers and shakers / irritants (delete as appropriate) perhaps we shouldn’t be saying this but we are not happy that the organisers of Wimbledon are replacing a couple of the traditional dot-matrix scoreboards (picture shown) with giant video screens. Bill Jinks of IBM, Wimbledon’s technology sponsor / supplier […]

Millions Of Deals (Well Two Anyway)…

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We tipped these folks last year in our Top 10 companies to watch in 2008… Screen Technology Can you believe it? A UK (Cambridge) based technology company with world beating technology !!! Yes it’s true … With their modular ITrans digital screen display … These guys spent millions on manufacturing capacity but nothing on sales […]

Our Top 10 Music Providers Part 2

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Unsurprisingly our top 10 music providers feature was incredibly well read. We promised at the time a part two that would give a little background on each and explain some of the reasoning why they made the top 10, so here it is…. Playnetwork, Seattle, USA These folks are probably the only true bespoke music […]

Big Things For Business Travellers In Oz

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Qantas Terminals, Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane domestic airports – an Australian first as EYE deploys strategically placed interactive light projectors Mike Tyquin, CEO EYE Media ANZ told us “The media strategy for the first execution for client Ford was devised by Mindshare Melbourne and executed creatively by JWT’s experiential division, Experiencelab … This is a […]

Screen Technology Raises £1.3 Million

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Hot on the heels of the Breeze Tech announcement that they had raised UK PDS 800k and an expected statement from Vision Media Group about more funding for them (to be announced shortly we believe) we have another! Cambridge based Screen Technology group – the folks behind ITrans (the screen in the Harrods window during […]