Archive for May, 2010

CCO Names V-P, GSM of New York

Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Marty Shapiro has been named vice-president, general sales manager for the New York branch of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc., Phoenix, with responsibility for CCO’s inventory throughout New York’s five boroughs, Westchester County, Hudson Valley and the New Jersey Digital Outdoor Network.

ALOOHA’s Conditional Audio

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We’d definitely like to see more Panphonics Sound Shower® installations and here we see ALOOHA, with it’s Digital Point-of-Presentation (DPoP®) systems in 50 Spanish shopping centers taking full advantage of directional audio. The beauty of directional audio of course is that (directional) sound will not increase the general noise level of the environment – ALOOHA […]

Magnetic 3D And CIE-Group Distribution Agreement

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

New York-based Magnetic 3D, which offers glasses-free 3D display and 3D digital signage solutions, has made a new distribution agreement with CIE-Group Ltd., Nottingham, U.K., whereby current Magnetic 3D Value Added Resellers and new reseller prospects will have access to Magnetic 3D’s entire line of products and services, including combined 2D- and 3D-compatible displays, logistics […]

A Little DID Research

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

According to DisplaySearch market research firm, the overall Digital Information Display market is forecast to expand to more than four times its size over the next six years, from 2.23 million units in 2010 to 9.09 million units in 2016. Samsung’s marketshare in LCD DID panels, which comprise most of the DID market, reached 41.9% […]

40% Mobile Marketing Annual Growth Forecast

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

In 2009, under half a billion dollars were spent on mobile marketing and advertising, but over the next five years to the end of 2015, that expenditure will grow at a compound annual rate of more than 40%, according to estimates from ABI Research, New York. “Compared to campaigns in more traditional media, mobile marketing […]

VMG Buys Chinese Mall Business

Monday, May 24th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

MRA (Media Republic Asia) seems to have been a joint-venture between EnQii and DAC (Dynamic Advertising Channels) but word reaches us via our sister site in China that VMG Global has acquired them (MRA is in fact one of the region’s biggest media sales houses). China is the only place where EnQii owned a network […]

Clear Channel’s Airport Monster Media

Sunday, May 23rd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We had a lot of interest in our story earlier this week with regard Clear Channel Airports DOOH gesture installations with Monster Media that we thought we’d follow it up with a bit more detail. Whilst the signage Monster Media is installing in the various airports has gesture-based capability, what is being installed is the […]

rVue Completes USD 1 Million+ Financing

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

rVue Holdings, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: RVUE), announced today that the Company has secured over $1 million in a round of financing funded by institutional investors. Simultaneously, rVue Holdings was quoted on the OTCBB exchange trading under the symbol ‘RVUE’. rVue, Inc. is a systems engineering solutions company with a core focus on providing scalable […]

Health Clubs Next For Amscreen?

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Jonathan Russell’s City Diary in the Daily Telegraph Newspaper in the UK today made mention that Lord Sugar was spotted lunching with Duncan Bannatyne at Mayfair’s Albemarle restaurant; ‘Apprentice and Dragon out to lunch’ – now they could have been talking about almost anything but it’s interesting that Duncan Bannatyne owns (among many other things) […]

Stars Of The World Cup 2010

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Here we see, 25 video clips focusing on some of the more prominent participating players: – Only 21 days to go now until the soccer World Cup in South Africa kicks off. Genr8 Digital Media has just joined several others in offering world cup themed content for digital screen networks. Lionel Messi – Argentina Christian […]