Archive for February, 2012

#dse2012 More What To Expect

Friday, February 24th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Here’s a glance at a few more of the companies that will be exhibiting at #dse2012 Sharp Electronics (booth #1300) will be exhibiting some of the biggest and brightest LED displays. Whether your next installation calls for indoor, outdoor, interactive, standalone or video wall, Sharp has a display to suit just about any application. It […]

NFC Geek Weekend @Isobar Create London

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Isobar Create London (together with O2) is putting together the UK’s first developer event that will challenge talented developers and designers to pioneer new and innovative uses of Near Field Communications (NFC) technology. It’s an open invitation to attend and help define the future use of this exciting technology (i.e. NFC). Attendees will be among […]

BBB Mobile Giving Foundation Launched

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

With mobile giving quickly becoming a critical tool for charities to raise funds, especially when disaster strikes, two organizations have joined forces to give donors what the partners say is the most trustworthy and safe option for quick ‘text to give’ donations. The Mobile Giving Foundation has joined forces with the BBB Wise Giving Alliance […]

Glasgee Subway Coopon Trackin’

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

In its latest Out of Home environment face-tracking project, Kinetic Worldwide has partnered with Primesight to explore consumer interaction with the digital Out of Home advertising network on the Glasgow Subway underground rail system. The research found that while contact numbers were highest during peak commuting hours, panels were more effective throughout the day as […]

Changes Underway At Adcentricity

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’ve been watching Adcentricity for the past six months – or maybe we should say that we’ve been watching the evolving space that Adcentricity used to hold in our minds as an aggregator and one of the early pioneers in this field. One thing we know: location-based marketing is seemingly now its priority and beyond […]

#gs12 Prescriptive Music Booth 1656

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

When we’re registered as ‘press’ for events this usually ensures we get a fair amount of pre-event requests for meetings. Globalshop seems to be the opposite so far with relatively few coming in. When you think that the really clever exhibitors at shows probably get most bang for their buck in the pre-event build up […]

Esprit’s History Of Modern (Part One)

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Esprit Digital, who very deservedly won the award for Most InAVative Digital Signage Project for their work at Westfield London’s Stratford City Mall, have produced an interesting video which shows much of the evolution of digital signage from Esprit Digital’s original creation of the Digital Escalator Panels through to Westfield… That video includes many world […]

ACDOOH Association in Colombia

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

First we had ABDOH and now we have ACDOOH – hot on the heels of the formation of The Brazilian Association of Digital Media Out of Home (ABDOH) comes a similar Association in Colombia (ACDOOH). Taxi TV‘s Salomón Stroh (ACDOOH) who is presenting at our DIGITAL SIGNAGE 360: A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE event on Tuesday 6th […]

#FESPA Integrating Print

Thursday, February 23rd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We are spending the latter half of this week in Barcelona at FESPA Digital 2012 – an event ostensibly for people who make signs digitally as opposed to an event for people who digitally make signs! FESPA are doing a great job looking to the future and helping their members understand some of the wider […]

An ‘Aggregation Aggravation’ Addendum

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Ken Goldberg wrote on his blog on Monday “In the past couple of weeks, we have witnessed the apparent demise of highly visible SeeSaw Networks (no hyperlink, as the web site no longer resolves). Not long before that, the CEO of a minor player, Digital AdTech, resigned and moved on and Ken’s thoughts in that […]