Archive for September, 2008

Planar’s Coolsign For Sale USD 20 Million

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Just over a month ago Planar engaged an investment banking and asset management firm with instructions to sell its Coolsign division. Planar remember is primarily a high end screen manufacturer (and very much struggling itself at the moment) but in July 2006 it bought itself into the software arena with the acquisition of Clarity Visual […]

Head Turning Retail Media

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Even though the world is on the verge of economic meltdown 😉 it’s great to see that MediaZest are fully prepared to take out big time advertising. Here we see full page ads this week in Marketing Week, Marketing and Design Week, These guys are also sponsoring a retail award at next week’s Marketing Week […]

HOUSEKEEPING – New Banner Advertisers 9

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We would like to welcome and thank Maler Corp who are advertising their TELentice managed service offering and Screen Expo Europe – both of whom have new banner advertisements with us that go live this evening.

Amadeus And Wellington Back EnQii

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Further to our story early Monday morning ‘EnQii Raise USD 18 Million‘ where we wrote… Two of Europe’s biggest VC’s, who we believe to be Amadeus and Wellington will later today announce a fundraising round of USD 18 Million for EnQii. We believe the money is most likely to be spent on major expansion in […]

LocaModa’s New Media Triad

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Jayne Karolow, Director of Community over at LocaModa sent us a nice email, after reading our Viscom Paris presentation online… “Just stopped by your blog and noticed your presentation in Paris. I hope it went well! I saw some neat synergy between your presentation and a recent presentation from Stephen Randall (our CEO)” She added […]

Broadsign International’s Official Statement

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

This went up on Broadsign’s web site late Monday Official statement by BroadSign International Re: Petters Group Worldwide MINNETONKA, MN AND MONTREAL, CANADA, September 29th, 2008 We have been receiving inquiries regarding Petters Group Worldwide (PGW) and its involvement with BroadSign International. BroadSign wishes to clarify its relationship with Petters Group in the following statement. […]

Lou Giacalone, Jr. SVP, Digital, Titan Worldwide

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We had a nice email last week from Lou Giacalone, Jr. SVP, Digital, Titan Worldwide following on from our story ‘Chicago Buses Get Titan’s Version Of Superscreens‘… “Hi Adrian. Just wanted to introduce myself. I’m Lou Giacalone, and I head up Digital for Titan. I’m based out of our NY HQ, and am responsible for […]

CEO SPOTLIGHT – Dominick Porco, AdSpace Digital Mall Network, New York

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This month in the “CEO Spotlight”, we welcome Dominick Porco, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AdSpace Digital Mall Network, New York. The Adspace Mall Network is a full motion, audio/video digital network deployed in shopping malls in the top DMAs across the United States. Each mall typically has 12-15 Smart Screens, 8 foot tall […]

Hurry Sale Ends Soon

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We noticed that British Airways used one of EYE’s Landscape Digital sites at Manchester Airport to count down to the conclusion of BA’s Autumn Sale. Rachel Howe, Account Director at Kinetic told us “This short tactical burst allowed us to amplify the campaign message in the final days of the sale. It exploited the advantages […]

BroadSign Retreats From Asia

Monday, September 29th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We are surprised that Broadsign have not issued any press releases regarding their investor troubles – there are going to be a lot of nervous (existing) customers around and some (not so many) potential customers rethinking their strategy until this all settles down or goes away. News came to us late on Monday also that […]