Toronto, ON — COMMB (Canadian Out-of-Home Marketing and Measurement Bureau) released its Q1 2026 Canadian Out-of-Home (OOH) Advertising Revenue Report. The quarterly report benchmarks performance with aggregated revenue from Media Owners, across Canada's Roadside, Transportation and Place-Based sectors. […]
Karen Wong: DFI Retail Group just dropped a HK$30 million bombshell on Hong Kong’s advertising scene. By snapping up out-of-home (OOH) mainstays Cody Outdoor and Buspak Advertising overnight, the corporate heavyweight didn't just buy some billboards—it hijacked the daily commute of millions. […]
Dear DSF Member, Registration is now open for the DSF Mix & Mingle and Pixel Awards on Thursday, September 17, 2026, at the beautiful Filoli Gardens in Woodside, California. Award nominations are open through July 15 here. As a DSF member, you receive complimentary registration and may invite clients, partners, and colleagues from your company at no cost according to your membership level. […]
ZetaDisplay is rebranding Peakmedia, acquired in 2023, as ZetaDisplay Austria. The transition marks the next phase of integration into the wider ZetaDisplay organisation and is further strengthened by the appointment of Marcel Schramm as Country Director. […]
Nivetha Dayanand Assistant Business Editor: New network will bring 80 digital screens to major retail hubs in Riyadh and Jeddah. Dubai: Multiply Media Group is expanding into Saudi Arabia through a partnership with Cenomi Centers, marking the UAE-headquartered outdoor media company’s entry into the Gulf’s largest advertising market. […]
Lamar and OUTFRONT beat the stock market during the second quarter of 2026. OUTFRONT was up 28% on 22% transit growth and 7% billboard growth Lamar was up 26% to an all time high due to a 5% increase in revenues and a forecast for continued improvement in financials. The S&P 500 was up 18%. […]
Metcash has closed its 2026 financial year with revenue of $20.5 million from its fledgling advertising business. This is small compared to group revenue of $19.6 billion for the year to the end of April. However, its retail media play is growing fast, according to its latest results lodged with the ASX. […]
Tom Goddard set four priorities for the industry and named proving effectiveness as the most urgent of them. His argument was one every media owner in the room understood: deliver the data and the evidence advertisers now demand, and OOH will not simply grow with the market but consistently take a larger share of it. […]
by Florian Rotberg. For a short while, EV charging looked like the next major frontier for digital-out-of-home. Reality has been more sober. […]
by Florian Rotberg: A recurring theme was resilience in the face of infrastructure challenges, particularly energy instability. While load shedding has historically shaped deployment strategies, panellists noted periods of relative stability, citing over 400 days without outages across South Africa. […]
By Florian Rotberg: Africa's retail is still overwhelmingly informal, fragmented, and locally embedded. Not ideal for scaling digital signage. At a continental level, informal retail remains dominant. […]
Richard Hamlin, Partner, Hamlin | Cody: Today’s Daily Breeze, a Los Angeles South-Bay area newspaper published an article about claims that the Inglewood mayor accepted a $25,000 campaign contribution from an ally(?) affiliate(?) of WOW a few days before the vote to approve the WOW lease, which was not put out to bid. […]
Futuresource’s analysis of this year’s show identifies further AV/IT convergence, pragmatic AI implementations and LED tech differentiation via control and vertical-specific optimisations. A key underlying trend was towards unified control and further convergence between AV and IT. […]
ARN Media has sold its Hong Kong out-of-home advertising business, Cody Outdoor International (Hong Kong) and Buspak Advertising (Hong Kong), to DFI Retail Group for HK $30.2 million, about AUD $5.6 million. The media group flagged its exit from the Hong Kong out-of-home sector last year, redirecting capital and management resources to its Australian operations. […]
The Hungarian Parliament has passed Act no. XX. of 2026 “On curbing hate-inciting political advertisements, ensuring the townscape integration of commercial advertisements, and amending certain investment rules” (the Act), which contains sweeping new rules on outdoor billboard and placard advertising. […]
