Archive for January, 2014

UK’s Outdoor Media Centre Launches Outdoor to the Power of 5

Monday, January 27th, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

The UK’s Outdoor Media Centre this week announced the launch of its new value proposition ‘Outdoor to the Power of 5‘. This is a crystallisation of five specific benefits of the outdoor medium to advertisers. Mike Baker, CEO of the Outdoor Media Centre, explained “Effectively we are saying that there are five things we do […]

Don’t Be Square, Be There (Video Walls Unplugged)

Monday, January 27th, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Our first Thought Leadership Summit (TLS) of 2014 takes place Tuesday February 11 at #dse2014 and it’s the first time that we have taken the topic of Video Walls to North America (our last highly successful TLS was ‘Billboards Unplugged‘ in NYC, October 2013). This particular ‘Video Walls Unplugged’, like its European counterpart held back […]

A Little More On The New Connected Times Square Network

Monday, January 27th, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

We’ve been trying to get more information on the new network of eight digital billboard spectaculars in Times Square for which Superior Digital Displays LLC has received funding, as we wrote about last week. We’re told that one screen is already up and that all will be in place later this spring. We wondered how […]

Friday’s Financial Times, @OceanOutdoorUK Ad, p5

Sunday, January 26th, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

Ocean Outdoor has launched a new marketing campaign to promote the power and presence of its large format digital outdoor portfolio across UK cities. Featured in last Friday’s issue of the Financial Times, Ocean have secured a full page, colour advertisement to create an impact in one of Britain’s most prestigious newspapers… The advert features […]

JCDecaux Wins Ad Spaces w/ Brussels Public Transport Operator

Sunday, January 26th, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

JCDecaux SA (Paris:DEC) (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announced that it has won, following a tender process, a 12-year contract to operate the indoor and outdoor advertising spaces on- and in-vehicle spaces and in the metro of STIB, the Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company. Jean-Sébastien Decaux, CEO Southern Europe, Belgium & […]

Net Display Systems’ #dse2014 Masterclass

Sunday, January 26th, 2014

Andrew Neale

Net Display Systems (NDS), the developer of PADS4 software, are inviting visitors to #dse2014 to see Smart Digital Signage in action by attending one of their many masterclasses. During the masterclass, visitors can meet the NDS digital signage experts and find out why they think that PADS4 is the ideal tool for solutions that need […]

Primesight DEP, Glasgow

Sunday, January 26th, 2014

Andrew Neale

Adding to the Glasgow Subway Digital 6 Sheets that Primesight have, we noticed these Digital Escalator Panels (DEPs) on a recent visit north of the border. They’ve been operational for about three months we believe. It’s a Signagelive network, of course, integrated into Key Systems. We reached out to Signagelive CEO Jason Cremins who told […]

Retail Business Technology Expo 2014, London

Saturday, January 25th, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

The Retail Business Technology Expo 2014 takes place 11th and 12th March 2014 in London at Earls Court. The hashtag for the event is #RBTE2014

#dse2014 Video Walls Unplugged: The Brochure

Friday, January 24th, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

Every Thought Leadership Summit comes with its very own colour brochure – a programme (and series), whose format we are quite proud of… It’s designed to give the attendee the chance to read about our speakers in their own time (and take the onus away from presenters to spend the first five minutes explaining who […]

oOh!’s Fly International Screen Network

Friday, January 24th, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

oOh! Media, Australia’s largest outdoor advertising company announced this week the completion of its multi-million dollar digital signage upgrade in Sydney Airport’s Terminal 2. The investment in the new screens adds to oOh! Media’s 18,000 plus screens in airports, shopping centres, airports, motorways, cafes, hotels, university campuses and community sports centres as Australia’s biggest and […]