Source - companiesandmarkets.com. The global outdoor advertising market may soon see less competition as Blackstone and TPG Capital move towards acquiring Clear Channel & Exterion Media. […]
Since November, the Digital Signage Business Climate Index (DBCI) in Italy fell by 8,63 points to reach 23,69 base points. The current business situation for the Digital Signage industry in Italy is rated as satisfactory or good by most market participants. However, after positive expectations in November the outlook for 2015 has become much more conservative in February. […]
The Digital Signage Business Climate Index (DBCI) in Benelux has increased since the last poll in November. The Index grew from 61,36 base points by 6,03 points to reach 67,39 base points. The current business situation has markedly increased since the last survey, with the outlook for the next six months continuously optimistic. […]
The “postdigital age” will herald a time when the concept and word "digital" will move into the background, where agencies and titles remove that moniker, where conversations switch from the pipes to the content. We no longer talk about computerization or electrification — it’s just how the world is. When a technology is really here, it blends into the background. […]
Because it is so globe-spanning, GE has keen insight into many IT industry trends and is privy to increasingly innovative use cases (what eWEEK calls IT science) involving IoT. The company also factors in such trends as social media and mobile adoption, which continue to proliferate as the post-PC era takes hold. […]
The Outdoor Media Centre (OMC), the industry body for the out-of-home (OOH) media sector, has appointed Alan Brydon, head of investment at Havas Media Group UK, as its chief executive. Brydon replaces Mike Baker who left the OMC at the end of 2014. […]
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%). […]
