Archive for July, 2010

#DSinvestor Speaker Profiles

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Over the next couple of months we will be profiling some of the speakers who will be presenting at the 5th Digital Signage Investor Conference being organised, as usual by the Strategy Institute, and being held 5th – 6th October 2010 in New York City. The hashtag for the event is #DSinvestor.

Limited Space Partner With Monster Media

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Limited Space, a supplier of media in premium UK shopping malls has teamed up with Monster Media to roll out cutting edge interactive technology exclusively across Limited Space’s large format digital screen network, Ad HD. This partnership agreement will, we are told, provide clients with a fully packaged service capable of including everything from inception […]

Jejemon Hack – Real or Really Fake?

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Manolo Almagro, Q Division Managing Partner

Jejemon is a pop culture phenomenon in the Philippines. Yesterday Techie.com.ph reported as their ‘image of the day‘ this (supposed) Jejemon-hacked MRT turnstile! (the city’s subway system) … Best part about this situation is the leading news channel GMA retweeted, made a facebook post and promptly reported on this image on air without taking the […]

Access360Media Shuffle Their Deckchairs

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Access360Media this week announced a ‘new executive team at its headquarters in New York’ but the press release itself was actually dangerously close to sounding more like shuffling deckchairs on the Titanic. The summary was: Veteran digital advertising executive and Internet pioneer Art Williams assumes the role of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) – this is […]

Titan And Orange County Transit Renew Contract

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Titan and Orange Country Transportation Authority have renewed Titan’s exclusive contract to sell the advertising on the OCTA properties following an initial five-year partnership. The new five-year contract, won competitively and beginning Sept. 1, 2011, is based on an initial three-year term, followed by two, one-year extensions. This win maintains Titan’s transit dominance in the […]

Who’s Hot, Who’s Not?

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Regular readers will know that every so often we like to remind folks we are a ‘blog’ – often in the true sense of the word and what better way than to simply report some gossip and hearsay and even do a who’s hot and who’s not in terms of digital signage software in Europe […]

CEO Spotlight: Jean-Charles Figoni, iDklic, Brussels

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This month, in the CEO Spotlight, we welcome Jean-Charles Figoni, CEO, iDklic, Brussels, Belgium. I notice that you have a lot of pharmaceutical clients, but also Mercedes-Benz. How did the company get started and how did you personally get involved with the digital out-of-home sector? Back in 2005, someone sent me an article about the […]

DIGIMAX S.r.l. At Viscom Italia 2010

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Giuseppe Andrianò

News just in that signagelive will be supporting DIGIMAX S.r.l. on their stand at Viscom Italia 2010 in Milan in October.

Kinetic, Grand Visual Accelerator

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Chris Sheldrake

Kinetic and Grand Visual also confirmed today the unveiling of Accelerator – a dedicated online tool which manages the copy production process and distribution of digital Out of Home campaigns – that we were the first to scoop in our post Kinetic And Grand Visual In Joint Venture? back at the tail end of June. […]

Bob Chimbel Joins rVue’s Board

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

rVue Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB: RVUE) the parent company of rVue, Inc., today announced the appointment of Robert “Bob” Chimbel to its Board of Directors.

 For the past ten years, Chimbel has held several high-level executive positions for Omnicom Group, Inc. (NYSE:OMC). Since January 2006, he has served as CEO of The Component Group, a consortium […]