Archive for July, 2009

The Keys To The Kingdom of Retail Engagement

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Dylan Jones, Jones Digital Media

Once upon a time a French medical anthropologist with the highly unlikely name of Dr. Clotaire Rapaille had a extraordinary idea. He gathered a handful people in a room of his upstate New York mansion and proceeded  question them about their first ever experience with automobiles. His goal was simple: to delve deep into his […]

BAA Commences Airport Media Tender Process

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

Following the termination of the advertising agreement with JCDecaux Airports, BAA has announced that applications to register interest for the new airport media contract will open from mid July. The tender covers Southampton, Gatwick, Heathrow, Stansted, Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh airports as well as the Heathrow Express. Media companies will be able to apply for […]

Update On Mobile Excellence Awards

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Trendsmedia, the events and publishing division of The Yankee Group, is an industry sponsor of the Mobile Excellence Awards produced by Little Monster Media that we wrote about July 15 (currently accepting entries). Trendsmedia produces the 4G World Conference and Expo, focused on the rapidly expanding mobile broadband and mobile Internet markets. Taking place from […]

JCDecaux Airport Launches ‘The Runway’

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

JCDecaux Airport has just launched ‘The Runway’, a rather nice run of 20 x 57″ double-sided digital screens in portrait, running the length of the luxury retail floor in Heathrow Terminal 5. As these are all in proximity to stores such as Prada, Bulgari, Tiffany and Paul Smith, JCDecaux Airport is positioning ‘The Runway’ as […]

Grand Hyatt NY Updates Its Digital Signage

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

The prestigious Grand Hyatt Hotel of New York is running its sophisticated new digital signage system on Omnivex software from Concord, Ont.-based Omnivex Corp. in Canada. Approximately 12%-to-15% of Omnivex’ business in the hospitality industry, including, among other sites, the Hyatt Regency in Chicago and the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. The Grand Hyatt NY, located […]

Heathrow Express Invests GBP 1.6 Million

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

This morning the official press release came out that the UK’s Heathrow Express is to invest GBP 1.6 million in digital media but then we told you much of that last Thursday when we wrote ‘Zillion Screens Heathrow Express‘. Following on from Heathrow Airport’s largest deployment of digital advertising sites at any airport worldwide, Heathrow […]

Nobody Knows Why It’s Blue

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Chris Sheldrake

We have 6 at the moment but you can bet by the end of the year with YOUR help we will have enough for a top 10 list of Blue Screen of Death type errors seen in the DOOH world. We received two new Blue Screen of Death pictures recently (the most recent taken over […]

DailyDOOH Is Tooh (Two) !!!

Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We are two years old!!! Yes, two years ago (yesterday) on 26th July 2007, our first ever post went up on DailyDOOH, entitled ‘Imagesound provides radio and TV services to the retail and leisure sectors‘ so forgive us for one day if we spend a little bit of time reminiscing and letting you know some […]

Walmart Pressures Brands To Advertise On New Network

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

Guest Contributor, Bill Collins, DecisionPoint Media Insights

According to an article published this week in the U.S. advertising-industry publication Advertising Age, Walmart have launched a new initiative which is pressuring brands sold in its U.S. stores to spend more money on the Walmart Smart Network. The Smart Network is Walmart’s new in-store screen network which has been rolled out to several hundred […]

OVAB Business Climate Index Survey

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We’ve just selected 100 influential folks in a cross section of roles in DS / DOOH in the UK to take part in the OVAB DOOH BCI survey. If you are in the UK and you haven’t recently received an email from us AND think that we might have missed you off from this list, […]