BROOKINGS, S.D. – Nov. 1, 2016 – The largest LED video display in all of sports has been designed and engineered, and is now being manufactured and installed, by Daktronics (NASDAQ-DAKT) of Brookings, South Dakota, for Mercedes-Benz Stadium, home of the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United FC. […]
PORTLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Leyard, a global leader in visualization products, today unveiled its next-generation Leyard® DirectLight® Series of fine pitch LED video wall displays, extending the company’s worldwide market leadership in fine pitch LED video walls. […]
A lot of the deals that get announced in press releases by software vendors aren’t big enough to get more than a shrug from people outside those companies, so I don’t tend to bother writing them up. But there are ones, here and there, that are big enough and sufficiently different to warrant some attention. […]
It’s been a tumultuous (to say the least) election cycle and for most — November 8 can’t come soon enough. To encourage more citizens to show up at the polls, the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) launched the “Vote to Count” PSA campaign reminding Americans that while all labels matter, only one label counts on election day: VOTER. […]
The Philadelphia Art Commission gave an initial thumbs-down to a plan for big advertising signs on two government-owned buildings at the base of the city's Champs Elysees-inspired cultural corridor, but invited the plan's proponents to come back with new approaches. The panel voted Wednesday against the plan for billboards on the Municipal Services Building at 1401 John F. Kennedy Blvd. […]
Version française ici. 3,500 displays are to be deployed across Auchan stores in France Croix, France. November 2, 2016. […]
Version française ici. 3,500 displays are to be deployed across Auchan stores in France Croix, France. November 2, 2016. […]
This week we’re talking content management software with Mark McDermott, the CEO and one of the co-founders of ScreenCloud, which offers a platform that looks, feels and works like much of what we do online with other subscription software tools. […]
Does Clear Channel's refusal to pay rent suggest the end is nigh for the medium, Gideon Spanier asks. Clear Channel has sparked fears for the future of the classic billboard after telling landlords that it would not pay its fourth-quarter rent. […]
The Out-of-Home (OOH) industry today reported a net media revenue of $78.1 million for the month of October, an increase of 10.5 per cent from the same month last year, which posted a net media revenue of $70.7 million.* Year-to-date media revenue has increased by 16.3 per cent, tracking at $625.1 million, up from $537.7 million* for the same time last year. […]
Corporations are Re-focusing their Goals. Challenges are leading to corporate reassessments. Whether an agency or an advertiser, the proliferation of consumer choices heats up competition for attention and fuels the need for companies to refocus. […]
For the second year in a row, the Digital Signage Federation started the second day of New York Digital Signage Week (NYDSW) with a breakfast and panel of experts. The conversation, labeled Coffee and Controversy, featured Brian Meszaros of OpenEye Global, Jennifer Davis from Layard and Planar, Jeff Hastings of BrightSign, and Phil Langer from Show+Tell. […]
Insider interviewed Drachman last week about trends in the outdoor advertising M&A market. Max, have you closed any transactions since the last time we checked in with you in early September? Yes, we have closed four more deals since we last touched base: Boardworks’ divestiture of the majority of their plant in Atlanta. […]
Philadelphia is looking to cash in on some of its centrally located government real estate, with billboards proposed for the likes of Apple and Aldo on two of the city's public office buildings. The Philadelphia Art Commission is scheduled to consider Wednesday proposals for "advertising signs" on the Municipal Services Building at 1401 John F. Kennedy Blvd. […]
Dave Haynes at Sixteen Nine has a fascinating podcast interview with Chris Lydle, Google lead for digital signage and kiosks. Lydle says Google doesn’t want to compete in developing a content management system for digital signage but that it wants products like Chrome, Android and Eddystone to be used as the backend infrastructure for digital signage. […]
