Archive for August, 2008

NewSight Surrenders, Ronin Continue To Dig Hole

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

For Wireless Ronin the best way to get out of this particular hole might be to stop digging BUT here we see them entering into an agreement with NewSight (who owed them money big time) to take over the operation of the Meijer in-store network. Earlier this month we wrote about Wireless Ronin’s Q2 2008 […]

Congratulations Stuart Armstrong

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Digital Signage Today announced (yesterday) that Stuart Armstrong, president of EnQii North America has been elected as the first president of the Digital Signage Association, we know Stuart and he will do a great job driving the association forward. • 25 Aug 2008 LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Advisory Board of the Digital Signage Association (DSA) […]

Where’s Koodo?

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Waiting for the subway in Montreal is a lot more fun these days: a new campaign for Koodo Mobile uses state-of-the-art technology from iGotcha Media that allows commuters to interact with out-of-home advertising displays. Where’s Koodo? is an interactive game that can be accessed by touching the backlit display screens in any of twelve kiosks […]

7 Seconds Give You ‘Empty Moments’

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

EYE‘s 7 second clips or Clear Channel / JC Decaux’s more (read ‘convenient to sell and schedule’) evenly-spaced 10 seconds ??? 10 seconds followed by 10, 10, 10, 10 and 10 to make up the 1 minute loop, as Clear Channel are planning on doing with VMG’s digital panels in shopping malls (as many others […]

The Changing Advertising Summit 2008

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

MediaGuardian have an interesting one day summit coming up in October, The Changing Advertising Summit 2008 is being held at the Congress Centre, London on Monday 13th October 2008… Brands, their agencies and media owners are using increasingly sophisticated, targeted and accountable advertising tools to engage with empowered consumers operating under a new and very […]

Lisburn Rail Station, Northern Ireland, WBCM ’08

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Belfast based On Screen Solutions have kindly been running the Macmillan Cancer Support WBCM ’08 teaser campaign and have sent in some photographs of it running in one of their venues, in this instance Lisburn Rail Station shown above and below.

Digital Média : What’s Hot?

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Once European folks are back from their August vacations it won’t be long before the first of a couple of digital signage events happen in the space of just three or four weeks. This mini-season kicks off with Digital Signage Paris at Viscom Europe at the end of September, whilst in early October we have […]

Digital Escalator Crown, MTR Station, Hong Kong

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here are our very own pictures of the SONY launch (showing VAIO) at JCDecaux’s Digital Escalator Crown in the Causeway MTR station in Hong Kong. JCDecaux call these 32-inch LCD displays alongside the escalator a ‘Digital Escalator Crown Bank’ – similar of course to CBS Outdoor’s Digital Escalator Panels (DEPs) in London’s underground. JCDecaux Digital […]

The Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Interesting network win for 1-2-1VIEW at one of Hong Kong’s most prestigious hotels, the Kowloon Shangri-La Hotel. The new network is designed to keep guests informed about activities in the hotel’s key locations – including the weather. Christopher Koh from 121VIEW told us “The weather reports provided by the hotel are significant to travelers as […]

Immedia Broadcasting’s Big New Customer Face-Off

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

On August 12th we wrote about “Immedia Broadcasting’s Big New Customer” and pondered who it was. Well it didn’t take long to find out who it was but in this instance it wouldn’t be fair to tell (email us and we might tell you). The interesting thing is who Immedia won against – we understand […]