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Press Release: Aap!Motion: Lenticular Motion Panel Technology
Aap!Motion lens combine the best of motion advertising with out of home placement.

(Los Angeles - California).  Aap!Global, an alternative advertising technology developer today announced the launch of  Aap!Motion, its new lenticular motion panel technology that combines the best of motion advertising with out of home placement.

Aap!Motion is a new communication medium from Aap!Global that creates animated motion pictures through the use of static photo frames WITHOUT the need of complex electronics displays or moving parts. Sequential frames from any film clip can be overlain in a precise fragmented manner that, when seen through a specially designed optic lens, generates motion picture animation to the enjoyment of any viewer.

Aap!Motion aims to combine the advantages and enjoyment of motion picture media with the size and impact of out-of-home placement. Aap!Motion can be installed in a variety of scenarios and will be enjoyed by people in motion whether on foot, escalators, moving sidewalks or even inside subway cars.

Possible examples include placement at airports, malls, convention centers, cinemas, casinos, office hallways, arena/stadiums, subway tunnels, railroad tracks - anywhere with large amounts of moving pedestrian traffic.

Aap!Motion pedestrian motion panels work similarly to Aap!Global’s MetroVISTA subway tunnel advertising platform using the psychological phenomenon known as ‘persistance of vision.’ Aap!Motion works at any speed and is effective in natural or illuminated light, with or without backlighting.

Aap!Motion consists of only two core elements - an optic lens made from strong acrylic plastic, designed to withstand outdoor environments and a printed picture, generated using a patented algorithm to separate, compress, and overlay the frames. Aap!Motion boxes can be made to any size, length or dimension.

Aap!Global provides multiple procurement options from fully finished pedestrian motion panels made to any specifications or merely the lens and printed picture from a customer sourced media clip. The simplicity of the product lends itself to extreme flexibility in placement. Already installed traditional lightboxes or signage can even be retrofitted with an Aap!Motion lens and print material to create a unique animated billboard.

Aap!Global invites individuals, agencies and the community at large to learn more about Aap!Motion @
http://www.aapglobal.com/aapmotion.php

About Aap!Global

Aap!Global specializes in creating and managing high recall, high impact advertising spaces worldwide.  Some of its patented advertising platforms include MetroVISTA - subway tunnel advertising, Aap!Rails - Escalator Handrail Advertising, Aap!Stripes - Floor Graphic Technology and a variety of other out of home, internet and mobile technologies that help client brands reach consumers in relevant, surprising and unconventional ways.

Aap!Global is a division of the Aedeas Group - a global concept development firm.

More information @ http://www.aapglobal.com

Press Contact:

Chris Seta
Director of Operations | Aap!Global
+ 1949 999 2035

Straight from the horse’s mouth, PQ Media reports that in the United States Alternative Out-of-home media is booming

While advertising spending in out-of-home media is healthy, alternative out-of-home media is booming, according to an analysis released Monday from PQ Media.

Compared to total out-of-home, which grew 10.6 percent last year, alternative out-of-home media (video advertising networks and screens, digital billboards and displays and place-based advertising), grew 27 percent in 2006 to $1.69 billion. For 2007, alternative out-of-home is forecast to grow at an accelerated 27.7 percent rate.

“Alternative out-of-home media is being electrified by what could be dubbed a perfect storm,� said Patrick Quinn, president and CEO of PQ Media. Ironically, the trends impeding traditional media, consumer fragmentation and control, advertising accountability and the emergence of digital technology, are the very catalysts stimulating the tremendous growth in alternative out-of-home advertising.�

Among the three segments of alternative out-of-home media identified by PQ Media in its latest forecast report, video advertising networks is the largest sub-segment, accounting for 60 percent of total spending against media provided by companies such as National CineMedia, Premiere Retail Networks and Gannett’s Captivate Network. Spending in the video sub-segment grew 28 percent in 2006 to just over $1 billion.

Digital billboards and displays rolled out by companies such as Clear Channel Outdoor, Lamar Advertising and Reactrix Systems, is the fastest-growing sub-segment, with spending up 55.4 percent in 2006 to $232.2 million.

Place-based media, the second largest segment of alternative out-of-home media, grew 14.1 percent to $446.4 million. ”

Source > Media Week Press Releases

Pepsi has started its largest ever Bluetooth based marketing campaign, allowing people to download video clips to their mobile phone from poster adverts, bus kiosks and other outdoor media locations.

The campaign to deliver viral video clips, which went live on April 2nd, runs for two months in outdoor advertising locations consisting of bus shelters in Washington D.C., Los Angeles, Denver and Orange County, and pay phone kiosks in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.

Each of the media networks has integrated Qwikker’s Bluetooth content distribution technology into their street furniture. Any consumer with a Bluetooth enabled phone can download free video clips from a Pepsi Smash advertisement. The viral video clips being distributed are five “Pass The Mic” clips of freestyle hip hop, provided by Yahoo! Music.

In the first week of the Pepsi campaign, opt-in rates to download content were reported to be 27% across the network.

Impressive.

Other Examples of Bluetooth Marketing Done Right:

1.Casino Royale does mobile content via bluetooth

2. Landrover tires Bluetooth Marketing

Why We Think Bluetooth Marketing Works!

• There are potential great uses of this technology for free content downloads
• Targets early adopters and the tech-inclined.

Where we think there are problems and challenges!

• BlueTooth Assaults and Messages almost always feel like spam
• Bluetooth messaging platforms don’t have memory - example - They will blast you a message even if you have recieved it already. Annoying.
• Users Don’t always have their bluetooth messages turned on but this can be solved with visual cues to ask users to opt-in.
• Slow Data Transmission Rates and distance issues. Most proximity servers only work at short distance
• Eventually WiMax or Wifi will replace Bluetooth for proximity marketing
• Complicated and cumbersome demands on users:

Step 1. Turn on bluetooth or infra-red
Step 2. Change your phone’s name to XXX
Step 3. Point your phone at the box and wait for up to a minute to receive a message
Step 4. Get content.
Step 5. Repeat and start again

Where to go for the next step!

While there are a variety of full services solutions (Hypertag, Proxmity etc). We recommend going open source with

Consola - the Open Source BlueTooth Proximity Distribution Server

Very easy to use and free! > http://www.consola.org/consola.html

We’ve used Consola as base of our Aap!Mobile BlueTooth Marketing Platform with great results.

We used server our proximity server in conjunction with an Aap!Stripes Campaign. Aap!Mobile’s Bluetooth proximity server sent free 10% discount coupons to cell phone users with Bluetooth enabled cell phones at coffee locations.

Read more about our efforts combining mobile marketing with alternative out of home media.