On February 7, the Super Bowl will toast 50 years with the NFL capping off the season-long celebration commemorating its golden anniversary. This year they’ve dropped the traditional Roman numerals usually marking the championship game. It will be Super Bowl 50 — not Super Bowl L. […]
LinkNYC, the program that plans to convert old New York City payphones into Wi-Fi hotspots with handy USB charging ports, made its official debut today. The so-called "Links" will eventually be available at 7,500 old payphones, but the retrofitted terminals are initially rolling out in beta testing across a few city blocks in Manhattan. […]
The price of billboards reminding Detroiters to vote is doubling and officials blame the elimination of straight-party voting in Michigan. The City Council this week approved a no-bid contract with International Outdoor of Farmington Hills for up to 21 billboards featuring key voting dates and reminders from City Clerk Janice Winfrey. The cost of the three-year deal: $900,000. […]
The Digital Signage Federation has announced its 2016 executives, as well as the elected broad of directors. Randy Dearborn, who runs MGM Resorts International’s many different digital sign installs, is the 2016 Chairman and Ken Goldberg, CEO of Real Digital Media, has been sent to the sunny porch out back where they put past chairmans. […]
What’s being touted as the world’s largest LED video wall has been plugged in and fired up inside the “Superbook” room at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort & Casino, aka the old Las Vegas Hilton. The curved beast is 20 feet tall and 220 feet wide, and uses 1,640 2.5mm Christie Velvet LED tiles. […]
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Fliphound is the first automated buying platform for the Out-of-Home industry and is designed from an operator’s perspective to attract new advertisers without interfering with their existing billboard business. Fliphound went live in May of 2013 and has managed and executed thousands campaigns for more than 500+ advertisers. […]
JCDecaux Dynamic will focus on the creative side of digital content and technical creativity for out-of-home enabling JCDecaux’s clients to deliver contextually aware advertising and innovative creative. […]
Anyone in the emerging technology business can relate to annual predictions that the next year was going to be the one in which their industry took off. People in the digital signage industry have stopped doing that — because the business did, after many years, finally take off. […]
This spring season will see the launch of 50 brand new, high-impact digital screens in the heart of London’s largest Retail Zone – the West End. 25 double sided locations will reach shoppers across the full-length of Oxford Street, the busiest shopping street in Europe. […]
As always, there were a few real innovations presented. Augmented reality, for one, can be best described as incorporating stock images into an actual view on a digital device. For example, adding stock decorations from a catalog to a dinner table for a consumer or enhancing a store aisle set with images of new products or signage. […]
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The latest This Year Next Year report from media agency GroupM predicted overall growth of 15.5% for the year ahead, up from last year's growth of 14.2%. Sporting events like the T20 World Cup, taking place in India this year before the India Premier League starts, will boost spending, as will a number of state assembly elections, IndianTelevision.com reported. […]
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The 10-year contract includes exclusive external wraps and internal train branding. Outdoor advertising leader JCDecaux yesterday announced their exclusive contract for advertising rights for the Chennai Metro Rail Limited’s (CMRL) rolling stocks. […]
