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Following on from last week’s CEO Spotlight on Micky Fung, president of Touchmedia we learned that Shanghai’s municipal government has ruled that no further screens can be installed in taxis, and those already in place must be removed once their contracts expire. Apparently, screens are to disappear from taxis in the city following a crackdown […]

This month in the ‘CEO Spotlight’, we welcome Micky Fung, President of Touchmedia in Shanghai. First of all, congratulations on receiving the Red Herring Award, considered the world’s leading award for New Technology Companies. It must be quite an honor for someone who has been described as a ‘brash New Yorker’ and who ‘talks like […]

Two articles which are well worth a read about the current financial difficulties at Clear Channel. Rob Gorrie, Adcentricity co-founder posted an article last week and Bill Gerba, CEO Wirespring followed up this morning with another post which you can read here.

IndoorDIRECT announced today that Steven Justman has joined the company as President of Entertainment, Marketing & Sales. In this new position at indoorDIRECT, Justman will oversee and manage marketing and advertising partnerships, content relationships and marketing strategy for the Dallas-based company which produces theBITE Network, programming that serves up entertainment, sports, news and lifestyle content […]

News reached us last week that there is still no signed contract between PRN and WalMart for media sales and worse still, Walmart still likely to spin off their own business to do the same going forward. At this rate Goldman Sachs will be lucky to get USD 8 Million for the business, let alone […]

At long last, visual improvements have been made to CBS Outdoor’s DEPs in London along the lines of what JCDecaux did at launch of their Digital Escalator Crown, MTR Station, Hong Kong last year. This campaign, planned by OMD, created by Dare and bought by Posterscope launched Monday 27th April at Waterloo Underground Staton and […]

Waterstones have messed around with CDs in their top 30 stores for some time now and other stores in the group have had the ‘freedom’ to play what they like on CD players in-store – resulting as you can imagine, music that the employees like; not necessarily what the customers would want to hear and […]

Rumour is that Imagesound have won a big music contract on the UK high street with bookseller Waterstones

TOTAL Media 2009 this year will be held at the IFEMA – Feria de Madrid installations 30th September to 1st October. See http://www.total-media.es/english/

If you want to be known primarily as a technology led digital signage provider then please go ahead and let your clients keep calling retail network deployments ‘xyzTV’. Here we see a very generation 1.0 looking ‘masymasTV’ channel for Spanish retailer Supermercados masymas. Developed by Altabox the channel is, in their words, designed to entertain […]