Archive for March, 2014

Santander For @OpenEyeGlobal & @RMGNetworks?

Friday, March 21st, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

A week ago there was a non-announcement (at least to us, as we see little point in covering news unless all parties are fully disclosed) covered by a number of pizza delivery folks, funeral parlours and exhibition organisers. We quote “Global digital media consultancy OpenEye has completed a multimillion dollar, full rebranding initiative including digital […]

Home Team Sports & Access Sports Media Sales Alliance

Friday, March 21st, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

Home Team Sports, the FOX-owned sales entity that represents almost all MLB, NBA, and NHL teams in the U.S., and Access Sports Media, New York, have made a new, strategic partnership and sales alliance that will provide HTS the opportunity to represent Access Sports Media properties across more than 50 professional sports stadiums and arenas. […]

Friends of the Earth Takes Over @JCDecaux_UK’s Waterloo Motion

Friday, March 21st, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

Last year, Friends of the Earth issued a challenge to agencies in the UK: come up with a ground-breaking and unique fundraising idea. Hundreds of agencies responded, though the final winner was Watson Phillips Norman with its ‘Big Picture’ campaign that breaks on Monday 24th March. ‘Big Picture’ invites people to donate to text in, […]

I Was Interviewed By The Big Man

Thursday, March 20th, 2014

Alex Hughes

Here’s the interview I did with the Mighty Phil Cohen during #dse2014 Click here to view

elevate DIGITAL Raises $3 Million

Thursday, March 20th, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

elevate DIGITAL announced this week that it has secured USD 3 million in funding from SFX Entertainment, the leading producer of live events and digital entertainment content focused exclusively on electronic music culture (EMC) and other world-class festivals. This brings elevate DIGITAL’s series A total raise to USD 7.2 million and we are told that […]

What’s Now, What’s New, What Should Be, What Could Be At #GlobalShop

Thursday, March 20th, 2014

Guest Contributor, Chuck Gose

Since the time digital signage became an industry (whenever that was), the focus of events, workshops, webinars and so forth has seemingly been, primarily on the retail industry – and of course, the opportunity for large-scale, retail digital signage networks is there. We all see it, whether it be in traditional retail environments, QSR or […]

NomadiX iWalker Wows Commuters

Thursday, March 20th, 2014

Maddie Cotterill

We note that computer manufacturer, Acer, turned to NomadiX Media, to help it promote its new tablet in the middle of the concourse at Paddington Station, London. Commuters played Fruit Ninja, ‘the greatest fruit-slicing game in the world’ on Acer tablets, NomadiX Media’s iWalker technology fed pictures of their fun encounters to its elevated monitors […]

Barco’s Acquisition of Montreal-based X2O Media

Thursday, March 20th, 2014

Adrian J Cotterill, Editor-in-Chief

News in yesterday then, that “another one bites the dust” .. Christie seemed to be looking long and hard at purchasing a digital signage software company this past year but it was the Belgians at Barco who beat them to an acquisition – not that Christie were necessarily looking at X2O Media (hint, hint). As […]

InfoComm to Host Regional Trade Shows

Thursday, March 20th, 2014

Gail Chiasson, North American Editor

InfoComm International, the trade association representing the commercial audiovisual industry worldwide, plans to host a new series of two-day trade shows aimed at technology managers, in-house technical staff, institutional buyers and end-users. Under the title of InfoComm Connections, the first such event will debut in Philadelphia, October 22-23, 2014, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, and […]

RBTE & Retail Design Expo, London

Wednesday, March 19th, 2014

Andrew Neale

RBTE 2015 will take place at Olympia, London March 10 – 11 2015 alongside a new event called Retail Design Expo. About RBTE RBTE is the leading European solutions event for retail and hospitality organisations looking for the right tools and advice on how to best run their business. It is a one stop shop, […]