Archive for July, 2013

RMG UK Team Meets Her Majesty

Tuesday, July 30th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Last week, RMG Networks’ UK team of Dan Horgan, managing director and Julie Richings, finance director , had the opportunity to meet Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace at a reception in celebration of the company’s Queen’s Award for Enterprise in International Trade 2013. RMG Networks‘ UK operation was named a Queen’s Award […]

Monster Media Acquires LocaModa

Tuesday, July 30th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We can expect to see Orlando-based Monster Media running on any screen and other Digital Out-of-Home networks, TVs, Times Square and more following its purchase of LocaModa, Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced today. “I believe it will be a game changer for DOOH,” says Stephen Randall, LocaModa CEO, whom we caught up with as he was enroute […]

Stephen @Ghigliotty Joins Cineplex

Monday, July 29th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Clever hire from Cineplex who we hear have recruited Stephen Ghigliotty. We believe he has joined the Cineplex team in Toronto as Director of Business Development.

Two New @ForrestMedia1 Digital Screens, Scotland

Monday, July 29th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

Scotland’s Out of Home media owner Forrest Media recently announced the launch of two new digital screens in Scotland. CityScreen Edinburgh will be the City’s first ever commercial advertising screen. Standing at just over 50sq.metres, the new Portrait screen will be situated at the top of Leith Walk on the approach to Princes Street, the […]

Coming Soon To The Netherlands @blowUPmedia

Monday, July 29th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We hear that come October, blowUP media (not really known yet for doing ‘much’ in Digital) will likely launch the largest full motion digital screen in the Netherlands.

JCDecaux Dicon Exclusive Ad Partner For Dubai Airports’ International Concourse D

Monday, July 29th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

JCDecaux Dicon, a subsidiary of global outdoor advertising company JCDecaux SA, has extended its partnership with Dubai Airports following the awarding of a contract for the exclusive advertising concession at Concourse D, the brand new world-class airport facility that is set to open at Dubai International. Upon completion, scheduled for 2015, Concourse D will become […]

HTML5: The Next Digital Signage

Monday, July 29th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Set the controls for the heart of the sun as Vernon Slack, Director of Business Development at AOPEN, will next week, highlight how HTML5 is becoming a powerful standard for digital signage, and what to expect from those solutions. In AOPEN’s next Webinar, Tuesday, July 30th at 11:00 a.m. PDT he will also cover OpenSign, […]

Publicis Omnicom Groupe: Impact on Media Owners

Sunday, July 28th, 2013

Russ Curry, Ministry of New Media

Brian Wieser, Senior Research Analyst at Pivotal Research Group has written a report ‘Publicis Omnicom Groupe: Impact on Media Owners and Ad Tech’ which well worth a read. Brian says “The combination of Publicis and Omnicom has negative implications on media owners whose revenue base is skewed towards advertising and especially those whose advertiser base […]

Publicis, Omnicom To Merge To Create Ad Giant

Sunday, July 28th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Reuters is reporting (Sunday) that Publicis and Omnicom have unveiled plans to merge the French and U.S. companies to create the world’s biggest advertising group, worth $35.1 billion. More here.

Joe Bailo Joins CastNET

Friday, July 26th, 2013

Maddie Cotterill

CastNET announced this week the hiring of Joe Bailo as the Western Region Director of Sales. Commenting on the hiring, Kevin Groves, Alpha Video’s COO, said, “We are extremely please to add Joe to our CastNET Sales team. We are confident that Joe’s experience and professionalism will help CastNET solutions to be attractive to large […]