Archive for December, 2013

Zoom’s Holiday Time Promo for Scope

Tuesday, December 31st, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Zoom Media Inc., in partnership with Starcom MediaVest Group and Procter and Gamble’s Scope brand are delivering a campaign that prepares Canada to ‘Outlast’ anything with a fresh breath feeling that lasts five times longer! Throughout holiday season and into the New Year, outgoing consumers frequenting Zoom Media Resto -Bars nationally have been encountering a […]

#NYE4all With @CCOutdoorNA

Tuesday, December 31st, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Marking its first use of Digital Out-of-Home as an ‘international news and content platform’, Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings Inc. announced a campaign Monday which leverages the flexible capabilities of its visual digital out-of-home network to deliver New Year’s Eve celebrations from around the world to the U.S. and Canada. Starting at approximately 6:00 a.m. EST, […]

#DigitalSignageFail @CBSOutdoorUK, Westfield

Monday, December 30th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

We tweeted this earlier on Monday but it’s well worth documenting once again… CBS Outdoor, who have slowly been getting their sh** together on the Tube (after many disasters) are still running Windows incorrectly configured across almost all of their digital real estate (the picture above was taken Monday 30th December 2013 at the Westfield […]

National CineMedia Restructures Ownership of Fathom Events

Monday, December 30th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

National CineMedia Inc., managing member and owner of 46% of National CineMedia LLC, has signed a definitive agreement with its founding member circuit partners AMC Entertainment Inc., Cinemark Holdings Inc. and Regal Entertainment Group to restructure the ownership of its NCM Fathom Events business. Under the new corporate structure, Fathom Events will be owned and […]

GSM Takes Over Its Own Ad Sales

Monday, December 30th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Houston-based GSM Worldwide Media, which offers large LED screens in 12 major malls across the U.S., is taking its sales in-house and building its own new sales force as its readies to launch eTotem, a new product that company management believes will help GSM achieve solid growth in 2014. The three-year-old company’s national advertising sales for […]

#LuckyEnough ‘Selfies’, Penn Plaza w/ @CCOutdoorNA

Saturday, December 28th, 2013

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Clear Channel Outdoor has expanded its array of full-motion digital billboards in New York City with three new screens at the highly-trafficked Penn Plaza, across from Madison Square Garden. Z100, New York’s Hit Music Station owned by Clear Channel Media + Entertainment, helped to celebrate the launch of the new Penn Plaza digital billboards with […]

Sony & Panasonic Cancel Joint OLED Project

Thursday, December 26th, 2013

Andrew Neale

OLED Info is reporting that the two Japanese companies Sony and Panasonic have cancelled their joint OLED development project. The two will continue to develop OLED technologies independently, but will focus on UHD LCDs the story says. It seems that (Japanese) companies together still cannot outfight the Koreans.

Retail Theatre At Harrods

Tuesday, December 24th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

You could spend days wandering around Harrods picking up the best digital signage practise in retail… Shown above, is Harrods (as usual), surpassing themselves with digital signage creative. It’s a Wizard in a mirror though there was lots of other great content in the loop as well. Superb.

Throwing Good Money After Bad

Tuesday, December 24th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Yesterday (December 23rd), Wireless Ronin Technologies, Inc. announced that it had issued an aggregate of USD 1,075,000 in unsecured convertible promissory notes, along with warrants to purchase an aggregate of 1,075,000 shares of the company’s common stock, in a private placement transaction with certain accredited investors.

London’s Elf Storage

Tuesday, December 24th, 2013

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

If you have ever wondered whether Santa had a distribution facility in the south of England then look no further… This Elf Storage facility was spotted alongside the M4 motorway coming out of London.