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Premium Live Social Music Network LiveXLive Joins DPAA (DSConnection)

NEW YORK, Feb. 10, 2020 – DPAA, the leading global organization for all advertising and content outside the home, announced today that LiveXLive Media, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIVX) has joined the association. A next generation live social music network unifying people worldwide through the universal language of music, LiveXLive connects fans, bands and brands. […]

digitalsignageconnection.com
Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 9:06 AM

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WOO’s ‘Rising Star’ award winner Gutnick to Lead Workshop at Toronto OOH Congress June 3-5, 2020 (Billboard Insider)

“The OOH industry has long been an underdog – complementing, supporting and amplifying the effectiveness of its counterparts in omnichannel marketing strategies. […]

billboardinsider.com
Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 12:23 AM

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16:9: ISE Says About 50 Chinese Firms Not Able To Make Show This Week

Integrated Systems Europe is now just a couple of days away, and I am headed there from London – the last leg on my hairy trip over. There was snow and freezing rain in Halifax when I left, and big snow in Montreal (normal for there) when I connected, making the plane late and forcing a mad run from gate 4 or something to gate 60, which is roughly 25 kms away (or felt like it). […]

sixteen-nine.net
Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 11:22 PM

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TechCrunch: As top exhibitors pull out of MWC, organizers implement stringent safeguards

A couple of weeks out, Mobile World Congress organizer, the GSMA, has issued some fairly sweeping safeguards over growing concerns around the coronavirus. After a number of high profile back outs, including ZTE, LG, NVIDIA and Ericsson, the company issued a new list, including a ban of visitors originating from the Hubei province, whose capital Wuhan is believed to be the origin of the epidemic. […]

techcrunch.com
Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 11:20 PM

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CNet: Samsung pares back MWC presence on coronavirus concerns

The smartphone giant won't be sending as many executives to the world's largest mobile conference as in years past, but as of Friday, it still plans to attend. Samsung is the latest company to pare back its presence at MWC, dealing a blow to the world's biggest mobile conference. […]

cnet.com
Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 11:17 PM

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Engadget: NVIDIA will skip MWC 2020 due to concerns about coronavirus

As the reported number of coronavirus infections in China grew beyond 34,000, NVIDIA announced that it will not send employees to the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain this year. […]

engadget.com
Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 11:14 PM

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How to comply with digital billboard brightness regulations (Billboard Insider)

Digital billboard lighting is becoming an issue with regulators. On Jan 27 the Boston Planning and Development Agency held a meeting on a proposal to reduce digital billboard hours from 7am-2pm to 6am-midnight. Cove Outdoor is going to lower an existing Weymouth, MASS digital billboard by 20 feet and install light blocking technology after people complained about light trespass. […]

billboardinsider.com
Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 8:27 PM

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Highlights from the OAAA “OOH Trends in 2020” webinar of February 05, 2020 (Billboard Insider)

Demand for Cannabis Advertising will Continue to Rise. 32 percent growth in cannabis retail sales in 2019. Adult-use recreational legal in Illinois (as of January 1). […]

billboardinsider.com
Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 8:15 PM

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Montreal Gazette: Astral, Pattison and OUTFRONT appeal the court decision to ban billboards in a Montreal district

Three of Canada’s largest outdoor sign companies are seeking leave to appeal the Plateau Mont Royal’s ban on billboards to the Supreme Court of Canada. In September, the Quebec Court of Appeal upheld a bylaw outlawing outdoor advertising panels in the borough and ordered the companies to demolish dozens of billboards. […]

montrealgazette.com
Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 8:14 PM

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OUTFRONT Canada is now selling its DOOH ad space programmatically via Hivestack platform

Michele Erskine CEO – OUTFRONT Canada "Digital Outdoor screens in their first iteration were sold as revolving loops of ads. We weren't tapping their true potential. These screens deliver massive impressions with huge impact and can also be highly targeted, data driven and flexible with the right tools. […]

hivestack.com
Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 8:05 PM

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AdWeek: Cannabis campaign on one of the largest US digital billboards

And this isn’t just any billboard—it’s one of the largest digital displays in the country that launched Monday in downtown Los Angeles, the top U.S. marijuana market. Weedmaps is its only cannabis advertiser. […]

adweek.com
Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:32 AM

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LA’s Coalition to Ban Billboard Blight rebrands as Scenic Los Angeles (Billboard Insider)

Looks like they’ve decided to take on LA’s wildposters. Here’s the notice. […]

billboardinsider.com
Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 12:23 AM

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Chinese companies pull out of ISE 2020 show (AVInteractive)

Of the 256 Chinese companies due to exhibit at ISE, less than 20% (or 50) have pulled out to date. The show has more than 1,350 exhibitors in total and visitor registration is ahead of last year. […]

avinteractive.com
Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 9:00 PM

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AVIXA, CEDIA and the ISE 2020 Show Respond to Coronavirus Fears (rAVe Pubs)

In the light of the recent international publicity surrounding the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), Integrated Systems Europe today issues the following statement regarding the upcoming exhibition on 11-14 February at the RAI Amsterdam. For the past 16 years the show’s co-owners AVIXA and CEDIA have been committed to delivering an event that benefits the global audiovisual industry. […]

ravepubs.com
Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 8:58 PM

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16:9: LG Confirms It Is Skipping ISE Over Health Safety Worries

Here is the official word from LG, which took a day, on pulling its people from its stand at ISE – which was very likely already being built on the RAI hall floor. With the WHO recommending that individuals “promote social distancing,” LG management believed that the most responsible decision was to avoid participating in large public events until the situation stabilized. […]

sixteen-nine.net
Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 8:57 PM

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