LG has started making some noise on this side of the Pacific about a new kind of direct-view LED video wall that connects, shares the signal and syncs between LED cabinets without using physical connectors. I wrote about the tech five weeks ago, when it was touted in South Korea. […]
Police say John Savey was murdered at his home in Florida late Thursday (July 30). Savey, 61, was managing partner of Longview Outdoor Advertising. The company, founded in 2000, is based in Windermere, serving Central Florida. […]
The suspect, identified as Ezekiel Emanuel Hopkins, attacked the boy's family members. The boy's grandfather John Savey, grandmother Lisa Savey and uncle James Savey were all beaten with a baseball bat in the attack, according to police. […]
I walked away from my demo with Wallboard back in February, at ISE, thinking these guys had a strong mad scientists streak – and an integration with HP’s printing division kinda bears that out. […]
By Eric Lamb. In DOOH, media owners are just beginning to understand how using an ad server can be a helpful tool to manage their campaigns and streamline operations. We’ve shared how ad serving works in both a pre-scheduled campaign and a real-time campaign. […]
The recovery from the coronavirus ad slump will be slightly faster than expected in the second half of 2020 and in 2021, according to an upgraded forecast by Warc, but the Advertising Association’s president, Keith Weed, threw down a challenge to adland to do significantly better and drive economic growth. […]
Audiences are now returning, but revenues 'do not yet reflect' that, OOH group says. JCDecaux, the world's biggest out-of-home advertising company, has reported a 63.4% decline in organic revenue for the second quarter of the year. Sales in the period between April and June were €351.9m (£314m), compared with €1bn in the same period last year. […]
JCDecaux has seen its revenue drop by two-thirds in Q2 2020 to €351.9m, the lowest level in 17 years. Revenue from Asia Pacific declined by 43.7% year-on-year to €303.2m in H1 2020, with the UK just behind at a 42.7% decline to €98.5m. […]
By Charlotte Jones. With much of the uncertainty surrounding the OOH industry in 2020, it was very refreshing to listen to some of the industry’s key players brought together for last week’s MediaTel conference – The Future of OOH. The event was key to understanding how our industry as a whole will move forward post COVID-19. […]
Dan Douglas Co-Founder at StoreBoost. Dynamic is perceived to be too expensive. A common suggestion is the price of dynamic is preventing mass adoption. […]
Chad Harris, Owner/Operator of Las Vegas Billboards. I never imagined I would drive down the Las Vegas Strip and see it empty and dark, like a ghost town. Now we are in the reopening phase, but our city has changed and resort corridor advertising and national advertising is still a very small percentage of our business, where it used to be the majority. […]
Minnesota tech giant 3M is exiting the touch systems business – announcing it is end-of-lifing the range of Surface Capacitive (SCT), Projected Capacitive (PCAP) touchscreens and display products now in production. They’ll stop taking orders on them by the end of October, and last shipments will be no later than the end of Q1 2021. […]
But the increase in international reach and increased registrations have come at a cost to event revenue from delegates. This year’s virtual event is free-to-attend whereas in 2019 delegates were charged a standard ticket price of 750 Euros plus VAT, with a 30% discount for AVIXA and CEDIA members. […]
There's stiff competition to be featured on one of those squares on your typical blue highway sign. f you've ever driven on an American highway you know them: They're the big blue signs near interstate exits showing travelers the nearest gas, food and hotel or motel options. They're officially called "interstate logo signs" or "specific service signs. […]
We’ve written before about the black lives matter billboard ad that went up on a Lamar billboard next to a confederate flag in Pittsboro, North Carolina. Chatham Times reports that the owner of the flag who also is leasing the land under to the billboard to Lamar is not renewing the lease with Lamar when it comes up in September. […]
