Archive for April, 2009

Sidetrack’s Aero Advert, London Heathrow

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We noticed this Aero advertisement went up on the Sidetrack Technologies Inc system in London’s Heathrow Express tunnels last week. It’s always hard to show how effective we think this looks with a static still image or indeed a YouTube video – you need to be in the train carriage to get the full affect. […]

And Now The End Is Near

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We don’t get it right all the time and Screen Technology, a Cambridgeshire based company that we were particularly fond of back in early 2008 is absolutely on the brink of collapse now. Yesterday its shares on AIM were suspended at the request of the company “pending clarification of the company’s financial position” As we […]

Redbus Group Acquires Streetbroadcast

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Redbus Group (better known probably for Redbus Outdoor) which describes itself as a ‘UK based acquisition vehicle that seeks to acquire businesses that require restructuring or re-financing and return them to profitability’ has purchased the assets (but not the former corporate shell) of Streetbroadcast. Streetbroadcast of course went Tango Uniform in February 2009 being previously […]

Westfield Mall, London 6 Months On…

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Crisis? What Crisis? Westfield is not a shopping mall – it’s too big, it’s vast, it’s huge – it’s a complete ‘quartier’ with all its shops, restaurants, cinemas AND with its own park benches and walkways as well it is very definitely its own village and, dare I say it, as an Englishman living in […]

Avanti Win 2 And 1/2 Malls

Thursday, April 30th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We are a bit disappointed with Avanti Screenmedia who in an RNS yesterday announced to the world that they had won ‘three new mall contracts’ when with a little bit of research and digging around it was plain to see that it was actually 2 Malls at best and maybe two and a half at […]

How’s the Weather Up There?

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Teehan+Lax, Toronto, took the award for Best Point-of-Sale Campaign at the recent Digital Out-of-Home Awards presented by MediaPost in New York last week. Teehan+Lax had developed a campaign for TELUS, one of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies and a major mobile carrier. This campaign for TELUS featured the HTC Diamond smart phone. The objective was to […]

Careful With That Axe

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Always interesting where folks known in the industry end up. Eugene Cuyler previously at Broadsign and before that at TELentice has ended up at One Digital Media

Open Mouth, Say AAAAH

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Well, it’s ‘captive audience’ that’s for sure… Swedish company Procast Media AB have been rolling out a dentist channel called DENTVISION Here we see specialist digital signage content provider BlueFox provide some of the content; a relaxing programme that shows parent-child relationships in the animal kingdom and a second programme allowing the viewer to travel […]

Digital Signage Expo 2009, Essen

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

How these folks get away with describing this as “Europe’s largest digital signage event” we do NOT know because it is not even close to the size of Screen Media Expo or even the DS Zone at ISE, Amsterdam. Anyway this year they seem to have made a much clearer definition between the floor spaces […]

ABC’s First Digital Out Of Home Media Audit

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Inlink Media & Technology have been continuing to do a great job (rather too quietly) down under – we last wrote about them in February discussing the ‘office tower media’ market and their 200 installations but last week they raised their heads a bit (more) above the parapet with an interesting release on ABC‘s first […]