On Monday 2nd February at ISE, Minicom will announce the creation of a spin-off business focusing purely on Digital Signage. Current Minicom VP Ronni Guggenheim will take the helm of the new company as CEO and will continue we believe to be based in Zurich.
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
JCDecaux is the sole advertising concessionaire at Dubai’s International Airport and it has just launched a new digital signage network with content from specialised digital content provider BlueFox. JCDecaux’s network comprises 90 units of 52-inch full HD Sony Bravia TV screens installed in the boarding gate areas in the newly opened Terminal 3. Guillaume de […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Here’s the official press release confirming most of the detail in our story ‘i-vu Reportedly In Liquidation (Updated 16.01.09)… 29 January 2009 The i-vu network The operational management of the i-vu network now owned by a new Company, i-vu (UK) Limited has been transferred to Simply Media TV Ltd. Simply Media TV is a media […]
They say it takes as much effort to sell a dozen of something as it does 100,000 and it has always surprised us that not more signage vendors have ever managed to do deals with the large Telco’s. In our industry STRATACACHE seem to have got it right winning against Cisco time and time again […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
Neo Advertising has just signed an extensive marketing agreement with Medscreen for the latter’s Austrian network in around 1,000 medical practices. Medscreen Infotainment GmbH was only founded in Vienna in 2006 but already, two and a half years later, the network boasts some 1,000 sites. This easily makes Medscreen the Austrian market leader in the […]
If proof positive were needed that Thomson is definitely trying to dispose of PRN take a look at this story yesterday from Dow Jones… The activities Thomson is planning to divest include its Grass Valley broadcast equipment unit and Premier Retail Network in-store TV network operations. The group has received “a certain number of expressions […]
JCDecaux SA (Euronext Paris: DEC) announced yesterday 2008 revenues of €2,168.6 million, an increase of 2.9% compared with 2007. Excluding acquisitions and the impact of foreign exchange, organic revenue growth was 6.3% which we are told “significantly outperformed the global advertising market in 2008” It’s also worth noting… Double-digit organic revenue growth was reported in […]
Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief
TruMedia seem to have pulled out completely in having any of their own stands at shows this year. Remember that great location they had at Screen Media Expo Europe last year? Yep, the one right by the main entrance that EVERYONE had to walk by – well guess who snapped it up when they pulled […]
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
We might call the Jan. 27 JADN conference in Montreal a case of ‘lessons learned’, since all speakers were able to help the audience gain from what their experiences and challenges had taught them along the way. Along with Michael Girgis’s ‘10 Top Things to Think About’ here’s what some of the other speakers had […]
Gail Chiasson, North American Editor
Michael Girgis, president and CEO, OneStop MediaGroup, Toronto, and CODA president, was first up at the Jan 27 JADN conference with his ’10 Top Things to Think About’. “Education has to happen,” Girgis told the audience. “Those of us in the industry are spending 50% of our time educating. We’re dealing with new products, new […]
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