The City of Los Angeles has banned new billboards since 2002. This week the Los Angeles Planning Department released a 110 page staff report recommending changes to the Los Angeles sign rules. There will be a hearing on the proposed rules on February 25. […]
Steel Prices are up 75% over the past 12 months. Here’s some narrative from a steel market newsletter:”…due to a variety of factors, the North American steel mills are operating the available assets at a lower rate than previous years. […]
The frequent flyer blog The Points Guy has a post up about the expansion of the terminal at Denver’s sprawling airport, and what caught my eye was the way the airport, and perhaps United Airlines in collaboration, are doing the gate information signage. […]
Amortization – the ability of a state or municipality to require a billboard company to take down a billboard after a fixed period of time without compensation – rears its ugly head from time to time. Wenatchee, Washington passed an amortization law last year. Amortization was a hotly debated topic when the US Senate debated the 1991 Surface Transportation Efficiency Act. […]
LG seems to be taking very seriously the whole notion of bundled, pre-sized DV LED display bundles, announcing 25 new ones this week. LG has created 25 unique Direct View LED display bundles that include both indoor and outdoor DVLED displays with Full HD to 8K Ultra HD resolution and sizes from 81 inches to as large as 589 inches. […]
by Omar Oakes. ECI Media Management’s Annual Media Inflation Report is forecasting 3% inflation in media globally, with a similar level in the UK at 3.4%. All offline media is expected to experience a reverse in the deflation seen during 2020 – a year rocked by the impact of Covid-19 – with the exception of print. […]
By Zanda Willson. Australians are back in public spaces and viewing Out-Of-Home (OOH) advertising at levels not seen since before the COVID pandemic struck, according to data from outdoor advertising company JC Decaux. […]
Bottom line: the US Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals repeated its legal standard. That standard says regulations which distinguish between on-premise and off-premise signs are based on content, and, therefore, violate the First Amendment (L.D. Management v. […]
Host: Tim Albright. On this special, we sit down with Eric Lamb, VP of Publisher Solutions at Vistar Media and discuss the state of the digital out of home (DOOH) market. We look at what makes a programmatic DOOH system, the current trends of the signage market, where things might be headed moving forward and more. […]
Mesmerize, a national OOH firm operating in transit, point of care, and place-based out-of-home advertising, expanded its transit advertising portfolio with a new partnership with Citilink in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. […]
Provider of location-based data and insights joins Digital Out of Home industry association ATLANTA and NEW YORK – February 18, 2021 – DPAA, the leading global trade marketing association connecting out-of-home (OOH) media with the advertising community while moving OOH to digital, today announced that Intermx, a data enablement company, has joined the association. […]
IAS Technology, a Central Illinois pro AV solutions provider, has been acquired by another Illinois tech services firm, Pearl Technology. “Adding IAS to our core capabilities positions us for future growth across the nation and brings even more services to current customers,” says Gary Pearl, chairman/CEO of Pearl Companies. […]
It can be a struggle, at times, to try to describe some of the more arts-oriented AV visual experiences that come on my radar, and that is particularly true with an LED/robotics/sensor sphere thingie called Morph. It is a modular, kinetic, AV ball that is touch sensitive and pulses for interactivity. […]
In 2020, OOH revenue declined by 46%, compared to 2019, with total revenues of £699m reported (vs £1.3bn in 2019). Digital declined 40% YoY vs 2019 (£279m decline vs 2019) and Classic declined 53% YoY vs 2019 (£323m decline vs 2019). […]
The response has been solid and intriguing to the survey I pushed out yesterday asking about whether the industry needs a replacement for Digital Signage Expo, or if shows like ISE and InfoComm address the needs. As of this morning, 78 industry people have put in their views. I’d like to get to 100 or so, because that seems like a decent sample. […]
