Archive for March, 2009

Neo Lures VP Clear Channel France Away

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

On 1st May Etienne Reignoux will take up his position as Chief Development Officer with Neo Media Group SA based in Geneva. Christian Vaglio-Giors, founder and CEO of Neo Media Group told us “Etienne will help us to boost advertising revenue on every single market and to secure advertising assets. These are the two pillars […]

Weather: It’s All Lazy, Pointless And Irrelevant!

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Chris Heap

Adrian mentioned last week in a banking article (which I wrote) just how much he abhorred the use of weather on retail banking systems as “lazy, pointless & irrelevant“. Well, I just received this greetings card and quite evidently that view is not necessarily shared, perhaps we could argue, by the guys and gals who […]

First Pic – Astral Media’s Digital Billboard

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Montreal-based Astral Media Outdoor has launched the first of its new digital billboards that were introduced to agencies and media back in early February. The first 14’ x 48’ digital board up is on Highway 13 in Pierrefonds, a Montreal suburb. Ads rotate every 10 seconds. The first advertisers include General Motors, Fédération des producteurs […]

Avanti’s National Brand Revenue Up 15%

Monday, March 30th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Avanti Screenmedia Group plc (AIM: ASG.L) announced its interim results for the six months ended 31st December 2008 yesterday and there are some nice headline figures in the results… Booked advertising sales increased by 15%* Revenue for the 6 months ended 31st December 2008 was GBP 2.39 million – albeit a slight decline of 9.5% […]

Earth Day ‘Lights Out’ Today

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

In Canada at least, members of the Out-of-Home Marketing Association of Canada will show their support for action on climate change, by shutting power to video screens and turning off the lights of their signs located in various locales including along Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway, between Jamieson and the Don Valley Parkway from 8:30 p.m. – […]

Commercialism, Decadence, Technology Run Amok

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

Jorge Garcia de Bustos

In the season finale of Battlestar Galactica one of the number sixes (that’s a Cylon for the uninitiated) observes to a counterpart “commercialism, decadence, technology run amok” as the pair stroll through a city populated by robots, portable music players but UNSURPRISINGLY no digital signage! (sadly, there will be no ‘minority report’ moments for BSG […]

Sticky: CEO SPOTLIGHT – Alberto Montezuma, Ya Mogu, Rio de Janeiro

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This month in the ‘CEO Spotlight’, we welcome Alberto Montezuma, Chief Executive Officer of Ya Mogu, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Your network integration systems are now in bars, coffee houses, foodcourts, bookstores, corporate intranets, and I believe that you are getting into transit. Which do you see as having the greatest growth potential for Ya […]

Playnetwork Adds Mobile Services

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Demonstrating how good businesses diversify and figure out new products and services that they can offer their (existing) customers we see that PlayNetwork has added a new mobile service to its media offerings which includes a full range of mobile solutions – short message service (SMS) campaigns, branded music and video content delivery, web and […]

Win A Free Pass To A Screen Media Expo Summit Of Your Choice

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We have 10 free passes to give away, which can be used at any of the summits, conferences or workshops being held at Screen Media Expo Europe. All you need to do in order to win one is answer these three questions.. What sort of music do we like in the office? Who was our […]

Ripple TV Raises Another $4M

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

Looks like the execs at RippleTV were able to squeeze a little more cash out of some investors today, to the tune of about USD 4 million dollars – imagine I’m saying this like Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers Movie !!! RippleTV say they are doing pretty well, still growing and that 2008 was […]