The Outdoor Media Centre (OMC) has tapped former Havas head of investment Alan Brydon for its top role, the latest in a raft of board-level changes at the trade body. Brydon’s appointment follows on the heels of ex-Havas Media chief executive Mark Craze joining as chairman of the OMC in January 2015. […]
BATON ROUGE, La., Feb. 26, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq:LAMR), a leading owner and operator of outdoor advertising and logo sign displays, announces that its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of $0.68 per share payable on March 31, 2015 to stockholders of record of Lamar's Class A common stock and Class B common stock on March 17, 2015. […]
Paris, – JCDecaux S.A. (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announces that, following a tender process, it has won an exclusive 7-year contract for the installation and operation of advertising solutions for the Helsinki City Transport. […]
NEW YORK, /PRNewswire/ -- OUTFRONT Media Inc. (NYSE: OUT) announced today that its board of directors has approved a special cash dividend on the Company's common stock of approximately $8.2 million, or $0.06 per share based on the number of shares outstanding on December 31, 2014 of approximately 136.6 million, comprised of a "top-up" of the 2014 annual dividend for REIT distributable income. […]
U.S. Advertising - Growth by Media Category. A year that started off with promise ended with a clunk, with advertising revenue growing at the slowest rate in six years. […]
BILLBOARD WATCH-Los Angeles billboard companies and employees have contributed more than $78,000 to candidates running for six City Council seats in the March 3 primary election, according to the latest City Ethics Commission reports. […]
The team at UK-based Output magazine – which is looking squarely at turning the lights off tomorrow – has launched a one-day crowdfunding campaign to raise 10,000 pounds sterling to keep operations running. It just went up live this morning (afternoon in UK) and they are at roughly 20% already of the £10,000 goal. […]
By Mike Hemmings. What do you get if you take a media owner or three, the oldest medium in town and then combine it with a spanking new one? […]
Ad spend in Western Europe is expected to grow 3.5 percent year-on-year this year to EUR 99.9 billion, driven by internet and mobile, and markedly lower than the global figure at 5.0 percent, data from Strategy Analytics (SA) revealed. Digital will be the fastest growing ad format in Western Europe (+9.3%), followed by cinema (+4.3%) and TV advertising (+2.7%). […]
Lamar Advertising Co., a Baton Rouge-based outdoor advertising giant, reported its fourth-quarter profit rocketed to $207.9 million, or $2.18 per share, roughly 20 times the $10.1 million, or 11 cents per share, reported a year ago. The results were boosted by a $120.1 million, one-time gain related to the company's conversion to a Real Estate Investment Trust. […]
Drinks giant Diageo is putting electronic stickers on its whiskey bottles which will be able to communicate directly with drinkers' smartphones. The so-called "smart bottle" will allow Diageo – which owns whisky brands including Bell's, Johnnie Walker and J&B - to send targeted marketing ads, promotions and cocktail recipes straight to consumers' devices. […]
The Digital Screenmedia Association has been taken out back and shot – the organization shut down and its members rolled into a new tongue-twisting aggregate entity called the Interactive Customer Experience Association, or ICXA. Ick-zah. Nice! […]
Our group at MGM is a rare breed in that we design, create, implement and maintain the majority of software, hardware, and content for more than 50,000 screen displays. This ability to fully understand the entire process and weigh the pros and cons of the variant disciplines, has given us an immense advantage when scaling back cost becomes a necessary evil. […]
Parts of Philadelphia could begin looking more and more like Times Square as a push for digital signage is moving forward. On Tuesday, Philadelphia City Council's Committee on Rules unanimously approved a zoning bill authorizing digital signs in Center City. […]
Here's how brands killed it thus far at Fashion Week with the innovation game, and how brands can think beyond the like in years to come. Real-time shopping. Both Hunter Original and Topshop took advertising to the streets this week, running real-time footage of their catwalk shows across multiple billboards. […]
