Archive for January, 2009

Urban Media Launches TRANSIT

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

As rumoured earlier today, Urban Media are continuing to expand their signagelive network to include an additional 60 licences on top of the existing 100 licence network that they have already. Unsurprisingly this makes Urban Media the LARGEST 3G / GPRS signagelive network in Europe Urban Media company founder, Einar Schwaiger told us first “We […]

N.Y. Latest to Get Outcast’s At-the-Pump Network

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Santa Monica, California-based Outcast, digital out-of-home network offering advertisers precise measurability, announced today the expansion of its Fuelcast Network to New York. Fuelcast claims position as the only at-the-pump network with patented pump activation technology to provide advertisers with 100% measurability. The company has also opened a New York office to continue supporting its aggressive […]

Panels United Launches 1st February

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Panels United claims to be the ‘first independent digital signage media agency in Europe’ but just how they figure that we aren’t quite sure. These folks don’t own any screens (they call them panels) or a network, simply focusing on the media sales and launch this Saturday with the tag line ‘connecting advertisers to digital […]

Urban Media To Roll Out 60 New Buses In February

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Norway’s Urban Media who we last wrote about in mid-December 2008 is rumoured to be going live with 60 new buses in Oslo next month. If this is true, by our calculations, that would make something like 160 x 3G enabled / signagelive licenses for Remote Media running around the city.

PRN Names D. Scott Karnedy Chief Sales Officer

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Premier Retail Networks, Inc. (PRN) announced yesterday the appointment of D. Scott Karnedy as chief sales officer. Based in New York, he will oversee PRN’s sales organization and be responsible for maximizing advertising revenue for the company whilst supporting retailers. He has more than 25 years of local and national media experience working with top […]

Vision-Text Joint Venture With Pixel Inspiration

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We have written before about Surrey based Vision-Text after spotting some of the currency exchange installs that they have done at UK airports and here we see them announcing a joint venture with digital signage agency Pixel Inspiration. The JV is ostensibly to deliver next-generation digital currency exchange rate solutions to the travel and banking […]

Digital Taxi TV, Warszawa

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

M.A.S.C’D GROUP POLSKA; a digital In-Taxi Media group in Warsaw, Poland is set to launch a new Digital Taxi TV station. The company, which has secured 4 year contracts with 70% of the Taxi companies in Warsaw has commenced installations and is planning to roll out the service in 5,000 city cabs within 3 years. […]

iGotcha Interactive Window, Ogilvy, Montreal

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Ogilvy, Montreal’s historic, high-end fashion retailer, is displaying, in its large rue de la Montagne window, an interactive digital display screen from iGotcha Media that is part of a charitable venture to help the Farha Foundation, Quebec’s leading AIDS fundraising organization. The Farha Foundation has unveiled an extensive collection of designer masks in honour of […]

The True Cost Of Coolsign

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Guest Contributor, Terry Scannell

At the start of this year, the parts of CoolSign that were not sold to Bally Technologies back in November 2007, were sold by Planar (PLNR) a Portland, Oregon maker of high end LCD screens to CS Software Holdings, LLC Planar had picked up CoolSign as part of its USD 46 million dollar acquisition of […]

Pizza Hut ‘Happy Hour’

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Pizza Hut has launched an innovative advertising campaign in the UK to promote its new, fixed price ‘Happy Hour’ menu. The menu, which is available from January 19, will be amplified through an atmAd campaign, which went live on January 26 and will run for 2 weeks across atmAd’s national network of cash machines. The […]