The team at UK-based Output magazine – which is looking squarely at turning the lights off tomorrow – has launched a one-day crowdfunding campaign to raise 10,000 pounds sterling to keep operations running. It just went up live this morning (afternoon in UK) and they are at roughly 20% already of the £10,000 goal. […]
LondonIsChanging.org wants to know: If you’re moving out of London, why? The project, headed by Urbanism professor Rebecca Ross, was created in regards to the housing crisis affecting the face of London. Two black and white billboards display bleak and somewhat shocking quotes from city dwellers. […]
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I have been going to DSE since 2005, and writing a blog that included coverage of said show since 2006 – so I have seen a LOT of press releases and direct marketing pieces over the past decade. And I’ve drawn some conclusions. First – many companies time their BIG ANNOUNCEMENTS for the opening day of the trade show. […]
Pico projectors have been around for a few years now, offering up a way to do projections onto surfaces using something much smaller and lighter than a conventional conference room projector. A Pico projector costs $200 and up and is not much bigger than a smartphone. […]
By Mike Hemmings. What do you get if you take a media owner or three, the oldest medium in town and then combine it with a spanking new one? […]
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Ad spend in Western Europe is expected to grow 3.5 percent year-on-year this year to EUR 99.9 billion, driven by internet and mobile, and markedly lower than the global figure at 5.0 percent, data from Strategy Analytics (SA) revealed. Digital will be the fastest growing ad format in Western Europe (+9.3%), followed by cinema (+4.3%) and TV advertising (+2.7%). […]
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Lamar Advertising Co., a Baton Rouge-based outdoor advertising giant, reported its fourth-quarter profit rocketed to $207.9 million, or $2.18 per share, roughly 20 times the $10.1 million, or 11 cents per share, reported a year ago. The results were boosted by a $120.1 million, one-time gain related to the company's conversion to a Real Estate Investment Trust. […]
Drinks giant Diageo is putting electronic stickers on its whiskey bottles which will be able to communicate directly with drinkers' smartphones. The so-called "smart bottle" will allow Diageo – which owns whisky brands including Bell's, Johnnie Walker and J&B - to send targeted marketing ads, promotions and cocktail recipes straight to consumers' devices. […]
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The Digital Screenmedia Association has been taken out back and shot – the organization shut down and its members rolled into a new tongue-twisting aggregate entity called the Interactive Customer Experience Association, or ICXA. Ick-zah. Nice! […]
Starlab, the hotelier's new design lab, features an array of cutting edge digital display technology. […]
Our group at MGM is a rare breed in that we design, create, implement and maintain the majority of software, hardware, and content for more than 50,000 screen displays. This ability to fully understand the entire process and weigh the pros and cons of the variant disciplines, has given us an immense advantage when scaling back cost becomes a necessary evil. […]
