Archive for December, 2012

Spafax Networks’ Automated Platform

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

Guest Contributor Nurlan Urazbaev

In my 2nd October 2012 article ‘Seven Hurdles to Success‘ (split into two parts) I described the lack of comprehensive, reliable media-buying tools for placing digital signage DOOH campaigns and mentioned the “aggravation of aggregation”. I wrote in part two, in particular, the following… The past three years have seen several DOOH ad space aggregators […]

C-Nario Going Strong In Ukraine

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Having spent the last few hours going through all of the entries for the Digital Signage UA Awards 2012 which takes place here in Kiev on Thursday I was surprised to see so many entries using C-nario (now YCD Multimedia of course, but folks still seem to refer to it as C-Nario in continental Europe). […]

Food Court Renovation Triggers Digital Signage Arms Race

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

Dmitry Sokolov

With QSR Digital Signage installations seemingly skyrocketing, few events trigger a flurry of localized installations like a renovation of a local mall or food court. A great example of this, is shown below. It’s a photo gallery of a recent food court transformation of Toronto’s posh Yorkdale Mall… While prior to the renovation, Booster Juice was the […]

Gr8 @ADI_LED Screen Content At The @Bullring

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

Alex Hughes

I absolutely loved this content seen on a new LED at Birmingham’s Bullring. The 6mm pitch 22.5m² LED screen is owned by the shopping centre and was installed by ADI. Advertising media is sold by JCDecaux. The screen is positioned above the main entrance of the Bullring’s Upper West Mall, an area of high footfall […]

Barco Takes Majority Share In projectiondesign

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

It’s an active end-of-year with yet another acquisition: This time it’s Barco, the Kortrijk, Belgium-based global company in digital visualization, which has acquired 61% of the shares of projectiondesign, a Norway-based company in projection technology. The purchase was made from private equity fund Herkules Capital. The remaining shares of projectiondesign are held by minority shareholders. […]

City Digital Media, Miller Street, Manchester

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

City Digital Media (sister company City Outdoor operates a number of backlit sites in the North of England and London) has just installed its first digital billboard. Located on Miller Street in Manchester (on the A665), the new new 6m x 4m 10mm SMD LED display replaced two standard backlit 48 sheet billboards. This is […]

Brawny Thoughts After A Year As DSF Chairman

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

’I am proud to say that it was a banner year for the Digital Signage Federation and our industry as a whole,” Alan Brawn, principal of Brawn Consulting of Vista, California, and DSF chairman who moves to the role of past-chairman when the not-for-profit trade organization puts its new executive board in place early in […]

Twas’ The Night Before (Lots of Travel)

Wednesday, December 19th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

By the time you are reading this I should be winging my way between continents, going from +24 degrees to a chilly -11 and whilst it’s strange for me to give a weekend style commentary mid-week, with the festive season approaching I thought it was as good a time as any to type a stream […]

DailyDOOH Gala Awards Raffle Prize Winner No 1

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

With a little help from an IT Girl, Simon Jackson of NEC Display Solutions picked out the winning number from our golden bowl and discovered that the winner was from France in the person of  the  lovely Laurence Roux,  the “in store TV Channel” Manager for La Poste. Laurence runs this Digital Media network which is installed […]

#2013SignExpo @isaSignExpo Money Back Guarantee

Tuesday, December 18th, 2012

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We had already registered for the ISA’s #2013SignExpo next April in Lost Wages but then we realised that the world might end on Friday. Luckily those clever folks organising the ISA International Sign Expo have also thought about that and are offering a money back guarantee. We like.