Archive for September, 2008

Brand Republic Promotes Amigo Digital

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Nice to see Brand Republic being the first to pick up on our WBCM ’08 campaign and giving some much deserved credit to the folks at Amigo Digital – everyone we have spoken to in the industry has said what a great job they did with the creative for this year’s campaign… Macmillan supports World’s [...]

Brian Andersen Joins Platt Institute

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Brian Andersen who some may know in Europe for his work with the Jyske Bank digital signage system (one of the best banking deployments we have seen) has just joined the Platt Retail Institute. He had been a frequent speaker with Steven Platt at events and so the move is not totally unexpected. Brian’s office [...]

The First Of The Gang To Die

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The first, pretty large in this instance, US based Digital Signage vendor has bitten the dust. These guys burnt through an awful lot of money, and we mean an AWFUL lot of money so it’s no surprise to us that mismanagement, poor financial acumen and crazy spending has meant that they have gone and unfortunately [...]

‘Theatre of Dreams’ Gets EA SPORTS Exclusive

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

This is a more interesting announcement than might first appear at first glance so pray read on… The ‘Theatre of Dreams’ (aka Manchester United’s Football / Soccer Stadium Old Trafford) is, courtesy of Matchday Media’s 200 x MDM.TV in-stadia Screens getting an exclusive repeat peak of an Electronic Arts TV commercial only previously shown on [...]

Market Overview And Trends

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here, in PDF format is the presentation that I am giving at Viscom Paris Friday morning entitled ‘Digital Out of Home: Market Overview And Trends’ I only have a 15 minute speaking slot so there aren’t too many foils and as is usual with our approach to presentations – there’s little text on each foil, [...]

World’s Biggest Coffee Morning Is Today!!!!

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We hope that those of you in the UK today are either having your own or going to someone else’s coffee morning, today after all is the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning Join in the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning 26 September 2008 Our flagship fundraising event last year saw over 50,000 people hold a coffee morning [...]

VMG Iconic Pod In Factory

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Number one off of the production line we believe!! Here is the first of Vision Media Group’s Iconic Pods running some Clear Channel test data through its system before delivery to a UK Mall.

Target’s New York City Storescape

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

If any more evidence was needed that in retail the trend is interactive large screen window displays look no further than Target, here seen in Manhattan with another interactive display, this time created by Inwindow Outdoor. This particular display, know as a Storescape, utilises street-level vacant retail space and is located at 1035 Sixth Avenue. [...]

Ivista Rollout Queens Arcade, Cardiff

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Newly renamed Ivista Ltd (formerly Mediavista Ltd) tell us they have just launched a screen network at the newly refurbished Queens Arcade in Cardiff. There’s a 3.5m x 2m LED screen located in the highest footfall area of the mall and 3 x LCD panels strategically placed in busier higher dwell areas across the centre. [...]

Cabvision WBCM ’08

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Chris Sheldrake

Cabvision was number 5 in Ivan Clark’s KineticWW’s Top 10 Digital OOH Formats and also kindly donated significant air time to our Macmillan Cancer Support campaign. Next year perhaps as Ivan says “Screens alone can work, how about livery too?”