At the center of the shift to mobile is the app economy, granting consumers greater control over their lives with on-demand access to just about anything, better retail experiences and innovative media opportunities. The app economy that begun in mobile will soon extend into wearables, automobiles and connected TVs. […]
Digital Menu Boards have been one of the top three use cases for digital signage in the past years. Mc Donald’s is no exception to this rule. Interesting enough adaption of DMB’s vary enormously between national entities. […]
Let’s get Ready to Rumble’ was a one-off battle-of-the-brands event hosted by Posterscope to find the creative agency best able to exploit mobile & digital OOH media, fully realising the power and potential to target consumers out of the home. […]
AdWeek 2015 did not disappoint, jam-packed full of opportunities to see fantastic discussions, debates and talks, it was often a head-ache deciding what not to see. Having had the opportunity to attend six sessions; two really stood out for me. Both resonated because they were immensely frank about two (highly different), often whispered, subjects in the advertising industry. […]
Developers of the $375 million arena behind New York-New York on the Strip have signed two major global brands — Toshiba and Coca-Cola — as founding sponsorship partners for the venue that is scheduled to open in April 2016. […]
AUSTIN — If you think you haven’t seen much evidence of location beacons’ use in a marketing context, following initial hype, you soon will. That’s according to one agency mobile marketing leader. “Apple just rolled out the Beacon API last year,” MEC Global’s north America lead for mobile and emerging technologies, Rachel Pasqua, tells Beet.TV in this video interview. […]
A small, but significant, number of major global marketers are aggressively leaning into data-driven omnichannel marketing, pioneering a trend that is not going anywhere anytime soon. […]
The Indian Outdoor Advertising Association (IOAA) has initiated a third party study of the Indian outdoor landscape with a view of starting an industry-wide audience measurement system. The lack of a common currency has long been a concern for advertisers and OOH agencies and has often been cited as one of the reasons for OOH advertising’s lack of growth in the country. […]
A reliable measurement matrix, digitization, innovation clubbed with creativity, consolidation, transparency - the sector needs all of these to be more attractive to advertisers. When Ancient Egyptians used tall stone obelisks to inform people about laws and treaties, it was probably one of the earliest forms of Out-of-Home (OOH) advertising. […]
JC Decaux is now the largest outdoor advertising company in the world . Decaux is a relatively young company and you only need go back 60 years to the time when it was a gleam in the eye of one Jean-Claude Decaux. Then the French state was taking a heavy hand with roadside bill boarders, calling them a 'blight'. […]
First, it could spur new types of contextually targeted deals or recommendations. "The watch as a new form factor opens the door to offering shoppers additional information with instant access and no phone out (if done right), even if it's just a micro bit of information, such as the aisle number of the next item on their list. […]
Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings (NYSE:CCO) major shareholder Iheartmedia, Inc. bought 2,172,946 shares of the stock in a transaction dated Thursday, April 2nd. The stock was purchased at an average cost of $10.20 per share, with a total value of $22,164,049.20. […]
The global mobile advertising market will hit two significant milestones in 2016, according to new figures from eMarketer, surpassing $100 billion in spending and accounting for more than 50% of all digital ad expenditure for the first time. The $101.37 billion to be spent on ads served to mobile phones and tablets worldwide next year represents a nearly 430% increase from 2013. […]
Evidence of a coming retail revolution can be found at the Macy's store at Westfield Garden State Plaza, where white plastic discs, about the size of a computer mouse, have been attached to walls and columns around the store. […]
The capital of the world and the capital of digital signage, New York City's Times Square, lit up recently for a high-tech kickoff to celebrate possibly the least-tech experience possible. […]
