Archive for November, 2010

Touch – Browse – Play – Yawn

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Despite all the help that Dave Haynes and PressDOOH give the industry, everyone of course is still a ‘leader’ and none more so (obviously) than Intava, ‘a leader in touch screen solutions for retailers’ who sent us this press release announcing that Ethan Allen has deployed Intava Vector™ interactive merchandising screens in its Design Centers […]

More Details And Pricing

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

More details are emerging, including pricing, with regard #DiSCO11 – the Digital Signage Conference being held in conjunction with and the day before #ISEUROPE in Amsterdam 31st January 2011. As mentioned before #DiSCO11 will be split into two parallel tracks of presentations and discussions from some of the biggest names in the digital signage marketplace:- […]

InfoComm China, Beijing 2011

Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

Andrew Neale

InfoComm China will return to Beijing in 2011 although it will move from its usual timeslot in November to be held 13-15 April 2011. The change in timing is to position the show nearer to the start of the Chinese fiscal year, which coincides with the calendar year, we are told.

New Look TV Interactive Screen, Dublin

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A little birdie had told us that New Look, a UK fashion retailer was likely going to be one of the first retailers to make use of a large number of Christie Digital MicroTiles and that was many months ago and we hadn’t heard anything further about it so a big thanks to the folks […]

X2O Media Joins Crestron’s Partner Program

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

X2O Media this week announced its membership in Crestron’s Integrated Partner Program. We are told that to enhance the end-user experience, X2O’s Xpresenter™ digital signage platform will deliver an interactive channel featuring dynamic graphics and content to Crestron’s touchpanels, while for Crestron’s boardroom touchpanels, Xpresenter Live will provide informative PowerPoint® presentations that include speaker information, […]

Windows Phone 7 App For Web Signage Platform

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Giuseppe Andrianò

Edisonweb, a software solutions provider based in Italy and developer of the digital signage platform Web Signage, announced a [Windows Phone 7 application] that makes it possible to monitor the status of individual media players within a digital signage network. This app joins the ones recently released for iPhone and Android, increasing the availability of […]

World’s First Large Screen OLED Installation

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We are very much looking forward to inspecting Mitsubishi Electric’s Diamond Vision OLED technology with our own eyes at #ISEUROPE at RAI Amsterdam, 1-3 February 2011 as we understand that it will be a central feature of the company’s presence at the event. Here, however we see the Diamond Vision OLED screen installed in the […]

All I Want For Christmas (Is It NOT To Come Too Early)

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

No surprise here that the vast majority of shoppers (73%) do not want to hear festive songs in stores before December, according to a study released last week by the world’s largest in-store media specialist, Mood Media Corporation (TSX:MM/ LSE AIM:MM). Mood Media’s aim is to help retailers keep their customers in-store for longer using […]

DOOH Ad Spend Up 14.9% In H1 2010

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Preliminary data shows that U.S. digital out-of-home advertising spending, including digital place-based networks, billboards and signage, grew 14.9% in the first half of 2010 and is on pace to grow 14.8% for the full year to $2.07 billion, Patrick Quinn, PQ Media CEO, told attendants at Customer Engagement Technology World/Digital Signage Show last week in […]

Mobile Web Advertising Measurement Guidelines

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

The Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Mobile Marketing Association have released Mobile Web Advertising Measurement Guidelines for public comment in an effort to standardize key metrics for the mobile interactive industry. Developed with the assistance of the Media Rating Council, the guidelines will provide a framework to govern how ad impressions are counted on the […]