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Media Post: Six Signs We’re In The Postdigital Age Of Advertising

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. […]

mediapost.com
Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:43 PM

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How GE Sees Industrial Internet Trends Developing in the Coming Year (eweek slideshow)

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. […]

eweek.com
Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:40 PM

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MediaWeek: Outdoor Media Centre appoints Alan Brydon as chief executive

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. […]

mediaweek.co.uk
Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:38 PM

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The Drum: Havas’ Alan Brydon takes top role at The Outdoor Media Centre

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. […]

thedrum.com
Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:38 PM

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Lamar Advertising Announces Cash Dividend on Common Stock

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. […]

stockhouse.com
Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:37 PM

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JCDecaux wins the advertising concession for the Helsinki City Transport

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. […]

Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:22 PM

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OUTFRONT Media Announces Special Dividend And Increased Regular Dividend

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. […]

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Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:20 PM

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US ad market growth rate slows to smallest since the recession, up 1.6% (medialifemag)

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. […]

Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 6:18 PM

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citywatchLA: Billboard Companies Open Their Pocketbooks for City Council Candidates

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. […]

Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:32 AM

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Output Mag Launches 24-Hour Crowd-funding Effort To Keep Lights On

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. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:57 AM

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Nurturing digital-out-of-home into the next stage of growth (mediatel)

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? […]

mediatel.co.uk
Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 8:15 PM

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West Europe ad spend to grow 3.5% to EUR 100 bln in 2015, outdoor to grow 2.2% (telecompaper)

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%). […]

telecompaper.com
Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:55 PM

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Baton Rouge-based Lamar Advertising’s profits skyrocket in fourth quarter (theadvocate)

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. […]

Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:50 PM

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CNBC: This whisky bottle talks to your smartphone

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. […]

cnbc.com
Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:48 PM

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Dave Haynes dissects the demise of the Digital Screenmedia Association

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! […]

sixteen-nine.net
Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:44 PM

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