Archive for December, 2012

Get Ready For The End Of The World

Friday, December 21st, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The Discovery Channel has been running a two day tactical campaign across all Outdoor Plus digital screens in the UK to countdown ‘the end of the world’ as per the Maya calendar. It’s an exclusive activity to the Outdoor Plus digital portfolio (The Eye in Holborn, Euston Road Underpass, The Spire on A40 Western Avenue, […]

MicroTiles Show Korea Presidential Election On SBS

Friday, December 21st, 2012

Maddie Cotterill

Live coverage of the 18th Republic of Korea presidential election on Seoul Broadcasting System (SBS is a private South Korean television and radio network) started at 3:00 p.m. that day and ended at 12:30 a.m. the next morning and used a nice 140 Christie MicroTiles set in an array seven units tall by 20 units […]

P3 Global Management, Inc.

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Why the sudden interest in Digital Out of Home from New York based P3 Global Management, Inc. then? Industry: Investment Banking Founded: 2012 Website: http://www.p3globalmanagement.com About P3 Global Management, Inc. P3 Global Management is in the business of enhancing cities through continuous innovation. We acquire and manage non-core municipal media and technology infrastructure assets (i.e. […]

20:12 20 12 2012 @OceanOutdoorUK

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

It (probably) only works if you write the date proper like we do in Europe, i.e. Little-endian (day, month, year), but Thursday evening saw Ocean Outdoor and Raymond Weil keeping watch on 20:12 20 12 2012 (it’s a very clever ‘creative’, see below) Luxury Swiss watchmaker Raymond Weil captured a milestone moment in time by […]

@Mediplay’s Scott Donley Latest 2 Apply 4 Patent

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Mediplay is a digital signage system built uniquely for medical practices, it’s described as “Engaging motion graphics and text are displayed (without audio) on a TV in the waiting room”. Pioneering? Well you would need to decide but the latest hacker to try it on with a patent is Scott Donley. United States Patent Application […]

VeriFone NFC Managed Services In Shen Yang

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

VeriFone Systems Inc., San Jose, California, has made an alliance with China Mobile and Bank of China to deploy VeriFone’s managed services solutions for NFC payment and mobile marketing in Shen Yang, China. Another alliance member, Shen Yang Badatong E-Commerce Co. Ltd., is equipping thousands of merchant locations with VeriFone NFC acceptance systems to enable […]

Displair To Demo Screens Made Out Of Air At #CES

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Andrew Neale

One company debuting at #CES which is well worth a booth visit is Displair, who will be showcasing their interactive multi-touch screens made out of air… Displair connects directly to your computer (and in future years, game systems) to create an interactive, multi-touch screen made out of air. An image is created in the air […]

U.S. Mobile Ad Spending Up To $4 billion

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

eMarketer is forecasting that overall spending on mobile advertising in the U.S., including display, search and messaging-based ads served to mobile phones and tablets, to rise 180% this year to top $4 billion. The company’s earlier forecast, made in September, was for much slower growth of 80%, to just $2.61 billion. eMarketer expects US mobile […]

The Sorrow Of Sandyhook @YourOAAA

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Billboards in eastern U.S. are carrying tributes to the children and adults tragically lost in the violent shooting last week at Sandyhook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The photos were originally forwarded to us by the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (later, top photo re-supplied by Lamar) We understand that it ran across all 1700+ […]

CIO Retail Summit

Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Maddie Cotterill

CDM Media’s 2013 CIO Retail Summit is being held in Chicago, IL, USA, 25th to 27th August 2013.