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JCDecaux and Transport for London Celebrate the 500th Digital Screen Installation

by Isaac Oburu

Today, Jean-François Decaux, Co-Chief Executive Officer, JCDecaux and Graeme Craig, Commercial Development Director, Transport for London (TfL), celebrated the 500th digital screen installation on the prestigious TfL bus shelter network. The digital transformation of …

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JCDecaux & TfL Celebrate in London

by Bob Raikes

JCDecaux has celebrated the 500th digital installation on the Transport for London (TfL) bus shelter network in London. JCDecaux said that it has a vision to make London a ‘global showcase for digital Out-of-Home’. …

Tags:DOOH| JCDecaux| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 08

Forrest Media Adds to Daktronics Inventory

by Bob Raikes

Forrest Media now has 22 large LED screens in Scotland with three new 10mm pitch displays from Daktronics being installed, two in Edinburgh and one in Glasgow. The displays are 50 m², larger than …

Tags:Daktronics| Large Display Monitor| Small Pixel Pitch LED SPP| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 07

Liberty Global Has Good 2016

by Milos Pavlovic

Liberty Global added 313,000 subscribers across its next generation TV platforms in Q4, bringing the total to 1.2 million over the year. After deconsolidating the Ziggo business in the Netherlands, the company has 6.7 …

Microsoft Increases UK Surface Prices

by Bob Raikes

Microsoft has joined the increasing list of companies that have increased their pricing for Surface products in the UK following the drop in the value of sterling since the UK Brexit vote. The prices …

UK Start-up Invents Ground-breaking Augmented Reality Tech to Create Adverts the Size of Sky Scrapers.

by Isaac Oburu

New start-up, Lightvert Ltd., is set to disrupt the Digital Out-of-Home (DOOH) market with a ground-breaking new augmented reality solution called ECHO. ECHO is a patented technology that will take advertising to new dimensions …

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New High Tech Phone Boxes Introduced in the UK

by Alan Spencer

New World Payphones are bringing the traditional UK phonebox into the 21st century with a high-tech makeover that include Internet access, says Amstrad. The traditional red UK phone box, known as the K2, had …

Tags:Amscreen| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 05

Hull Projects for Seven Days

by Yvette Raikes

To celebrate becoming this year’s UK City of Culture, Hull started the year with seven days of a spectacular called Made in Hull, which was attended by 342,000 people. It was created by Hull-born …

Tags:Back Panel| Large Display Monitor| Projection Mapping| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 03

Midwich Group Signs Exclusive UK and EIRE Distribution Deal with Samsung Interactive

by Isaac Oburu

Leading trade-only distributor of technology solutions, Midwich, is delighted to announce that it will be exclusively distributing a range of Samsung E-board Interactive products as of January 2017. The AV distributor will be managing …

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iPlayer Breaks Records

by Yvette Raikes

BBC iPlayer received a record 69.3 million requests in the week between Christmas and New Year. It was particularly popular on mobiles on New Year’s Eve! This helped to make December its best ever …

And finally…. A Braille Joke

by Bob Raikes

Mars has run a campaign that uses Malteser chocolate-shaped braille signs on a bus shelter. The braille said “Caught a really fast bus once, turns out it was a fire engine.”, a joke that …

Tags:Back Panel| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 01

UK National Lottery Books ClearChannel for a Day

by Bob Raikes

Showing the particular advantages of the digital medium, Camelot, the company that runs the UK’s national lottery took over the whole of the Clear Channel ‘digital estate’ for a single day campaign on New …

Tags:ClearChannel| DOOH| Large Display Monitor| UK (United Kingdom)| Vol 24 - Issue 01