Archive for October, 2012

Martin Price, Graham Pow @PSCoGroup Up North

Monday, October 29th, 2012

Maddie Cotterill

PSCo Technical Distribution, specialist UK-based distributor of advanced and innovative display products and services, announced today that it has invested over £1M extending its Technical Distribution operation in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham AND that Martin Price has been appointed Business Development Manager – Midlands and North. Martin is joined by additional team members focused on building […]

Send For The Mexorcist @JCDecaux_UK

Monday, October 29th, 2012

Andrew Neale

Unless we are missing it, we haven’t seen very much Halloween content up around London – cue, dozen’s of stories to hit our editorial desk before Wednesday, Ed – but we did spot this one up on Friday at Victoria Station… First of all, the Transvision showed a gloomy graveyard, inscriptions on the gravestones read, […]

Ship Of Fools Docks In Toronto

Monday, October 29th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Pattison Onestop and Cape Farewell Foundation will co-present ‘Ship of Fools: Artists and Climate Change‘, an urban multi-screen project throughout Toronto addressing the reality of the climate challenge through a cultural lens, from November 5 to 18, 2012. Responding to Cape Farewell Foundation’s mandate to instigate a cultural response to climate change, Ship of Fools: […]

Katrin Robertson, @blowUPmedia Group Managing Director

Monday, October 29th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Following the departure of London based Dominic Gesua, blowUP media’s UK Managing Director we hear that Katrin Robertson, Group Managing Director at blowUP media is relocating to London. Katrin will take over the day-to-day running of the business while succession plans are considered. Katrin, we are told, will continue to strengthen blowUP media’s core business […]

Reggie’s Hosting A Black Tie Stammtisch Table

Monday, October 29th, 2012

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

We’ve had so many enquiries from individuals (consultants, designers, media buyers, mainly) and some small companies who simply aren’t big enough to fill a ten-seat table at our upcoming DailyDOOH Gala Awards, that we’ve decide to make it possible to make individual reservations on a communal table. Table 14 is now listed as a ‘Stammtisch‘ […]

Inlink Partners With Virgin Australia For Lounge Media

Monday, October 29th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Inlink, one of Australia’s largest and fastest growing digital out-of-home company announced today that it has been selected as a media partner for Virgin Australia Lounges, effective immediately. Managing Director of Inlink, Oliver Roydhouse, told us “The Virgin Australia Lounge is the ultimate luxury lounge experience and we are ecstatic to be advertising partners for […]

Advil/MuchMusic/MEC/Newad Combine For Campaign Using NFC For Contest

Saturday, October 27th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

No digital boards but smart phone screens, QR codes and Newad’s classic boards and big backlits are combined in a national contest using Near Field Communications to promote the popular show Gossip Girl, which airs every Monday night on MuchMusic in Canada. Advil, MuchMusic and media agency MEC are using Newad’s NFC technology for a […]

CEO Spotlight: Ahmad Ouri, IZON Media, San Francisco

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

This month we welcome Ahmad Ouri, CEO and President, IZON Media†, nee Premier Retail Networks (PRN), San Francisco Why did you re-brand PRN to IZON Media? The re-brand reflects the company’s new culture of innovation and the dedication to leverage our vast footprint along with the latest in online, social, and mobile technologies to engage […]

Martijn Bakker Joins Display Evolution

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The first thing that Klocktornet AB / DISE / Display Evolution (delete as applicable cos’ it’s stupidly confusing what they actually want to be called) should do with the money they recently raised from Almi Invest is figure out what their name is and do some form of branding exercise. Earlier in the week it […]

Spafax Networks Selects Nielsen For Better Metrics

Friday, October 26th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

New York-based Spafax Networks is planning to redefine out-of-home digital advertising capabilities and to push the discipline to new levels with a new offering designed to track and measure commercial messages to today’s always on-the-go consumers. The new initiative, in which Spafax Networks teams with Nielsen’s On-Location reporting service, will provide standardized metrics for the […]