The largest working video screen in the world was inaugurated yesterday at the King’s Road Tower in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia’s second biggest city. The face, which measures 9,850 sq m and features more than 5 million LEDs, was designed, built and installed by French company Citiled, a world leader in tailor-made “Media Façade” projects for…More

The Canadian Digital Media Network (CDMN) has chosen ScreenScape to power a network of screen displays that will span its commercialization centers and form its own place-based media network. Located in Kitchener Ontario, the Canadian Digital Media Network’s mission is to create partnerships among businesses with a focus on IT and digital media in an…More

BlueFox has just announced several new agreements which have recently been signed either directly or through its network of partners. Spain has been an important growth area for the company, which now supplies content via TMT Factory for Telefonica Music (50,000 screens planned by 2012), ALSA (300 buses), Alooha (30 screens in shopping centres) and…More

Elemidia, Brazil’s biggest ad-based digital signage operator, intends to almost double its coverage in the coming months. By the end of 2010, it is aiming at having 8,500 screens compared to its current base of 4,750. This expansion will be helped by the recent acquisition of the Cine Boteco network (now known as Elemidia Bares),…More

Nielsen has released “The Fourth Screen Network Audience Report”, its first ever syndicated report that measures location-based video media networks and enables direct comparisons with other video networks, including TV and Internet. The inaugural report measures ad exposures by 10 networks in venues like cinemas, bars and restaurants, health clubs, petrol stations, and hotels. Measurements…More

Belgian manufacturer Arch has just installed “the first white LED screen ever designed” in the Boréal building in Brussels. When the screen is switched off, it becomes white and imitates the structure of the tiles used on the adjacent walls. As a result, it integrates perfectly into the overall design of the premises. On the…More

Wong’s International (Holdings) Limited (WIH), a leading Hong Kong based electronics manufacturing company, has acquired 22% of the issued shared capital of Focus Media Network Limited (FMN), the leading digital Out-of-Home media company in Hong Kong and Singapore. Under the transaction, WIH will utilize FMN’s extensive Out-of-Home digital screen network to launch its newly developed…More

Captivate Network, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, and Office Media Network have entered into a comprehensive settlement agreement to resolve litigation pending between the companies involving certain of Captivate Network’s patents and Office Media Network’s elevator display system. In exchange for a cash settlement and ongoing royalty payments, Captivate Network has granted Office…More

Onestop Media Group, Canada’s largest Digital Out-of-Home Company, has officially announced the launch of its Onestop Residential network (see here for our previous article). In its first-phase, Onestop Residential will roll-out to several hundred high-rise residential buildings in the Greater Toronto Area, with an expansion to major Canadian markets to follow. Onestop Media Group has…More

Uruguay-based Screenmedia is currently rolling out a new digital signage network operating in office towers elevators. The system uses Navori Digital Signage solution and features 17” LCD monitors, showing a mix of news, entertainment content and advertising. The first screens have been installed in the World Trade Center Montevideo towers. The network will soon be…More