When cannabis started being legalized in US states like Colorado, and more recently across Canada, it struck me that it was a very interesting ... […]
Back at World HQ after flying home from DSE, and once again finding myself frantically running through Montreal’s airport to make a tight connection ... […]
On December 7, a substantial insider purchase was made by Jeffrey C Royal, Board Member at Boston Omaha. What Happened: In a Form 4 filing on Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, it was disclosed that Royal bought 10,000 shares of Boston Omaha, amounting to a total of $150,411. […]
Out-of-home investor Arte Moreno has purchased 14 million more shares of Clear Channel Outdoor stock according to a schedule 13D’s filed with the SEC. As of yesterday the group owned 10.6% of Clear Channel Outdoor’s common stock with a total investment value of $76 million based on yesterdays price of $1.49. The investment group, which includes Moreno, William Pope and Verde Capital. […]
Why the fake outrage about ‘faux’ out-of-home ads? By Kirsty Hathaway | Executive Creative, Joan London. What is the main objective of a campaign? […]
The Media Rating Council (MRC) has released a draft version of its Out-of-Home (OOH) Measurement Standards for public review and commentary. The 30-day public comment period extends through December 18, 2023. These Standards aim to establish a detailed set of methods and common practices for entities that measure OOH media audiences and related metrics activity. […]
QR codes placed on seemingly innocent billboards in Russia’s largest cities led to the website “Russia without Putin,” launched by associates of the imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The billboards were designed to not look political: they featured phrases such as “Happy New Year, Russia” and “Russia, everything will definitely work out. […]
by Dom Kozak, Head of Programmatic, JCDecaux UK. Over the past 12 months, programmatic DOOH (pDOOH) has gone from strength to strength with revenues reported at a global level up 63% year on year in H1 2023. This growth has been underpinned by a united effort from early adopters to educate the wider industry about the benefits of the channel. […]
Micajah McGregor, Editor in Chief/ Managing Partner, FanFest. This article provides a brief overview of the net worth and career of Jean-Claude Decaux, a prominent French entrepreneur in the advertising industry. Born in 1938, Decaux has amassed a net worth of $7.4 billion. […]
The second and final day of the 2023 exhibit hall at Digital Signage Experience was very, very slow, but the folks standing around shooting the breeze at their stands were surprisingly happy – because Day 1 seems to have had enough volume and opportunity to make the investment and effort worthwhile. […]
The exhibit hall on Day One of the trade show side of Digital Signage Experience in Las Vegas was quite busy Monday, but a big qualifier on that was lots of people in not much space. Officially, there are roughly 60 stands in the DSE side of the exhibit hall – conjoined with the live events show LDI. […]
All-in-one LED video display shipments are increasing based on their clear advantages compared with LCD displays in conference rooms, according to market researchers Omdia. Shipments of all-in-one LED product lines have increased rapidly since the second half of 2021, growing at a rate of 57.4% year on year in the third quarter of 2023, according to Omdia’s LED video display market tracker. […]
Investors were a little disappointed by the quarter as the numbers fell short of Wall Street’s consensus estimates; most analysts were anticipating earnings of $0.13 per share on revenue closer to $213 million. Shares of Daktronics were down from $9.03 to $8.80 for the day, off 2.6%. […]
This was the second year the NY-based events company has put on the show, having bought the assets in 2021 from the family-owned-and-run Atlanta company that started and ran DSE since the mid-2000s. Exponation entered into bankruptcy proceedings when COVID took over our lives, but the show was already, by 2020, in serious decline. […]
Alongside the existing out-of-home portfolio, which includes 7 premium specialized networks, featuring large format inventory at Yonge & Dundas Square, the #1 campus media network, and #1 residential & commercial digital elevator network, Rogers Sports & Media moves to become one of the largest OOH players in the Canadian market. […]
