Decommissioned Billboard Vinyls Being Repurposed As Roof Tarps For Hurricane-Damaged Homes
October 11, 2024 by Dave Haynes
This is not digital signage, but involves a nice program that works with a lot of outdoor media companies that increasingly use digital displays …
Read moreChicago City Council Weighing Push To Allow Digital Billboards Along Famed Riverwalk
June 26, 2024 by Dave Haynes
A committee is set to meet today in Chicago to consider a push to relax restrictions that prevent digital billboards to be lit up …
Read moreDigital Billboards Boost Awareness, But Also Consideration, Intent And Foot Traffic: Vistar Media
May 10, 2023 by Dave Haynes
Billboards have long been a tool – whether print or digital – to drive awareness for advertisers, but new research done by Vistar Media …
Read moreScreenverse, Apparatix Partner To Boost Revenues For Independent Billboard Media Companies
March 22, 2023 by Dave Haynes
A couple of digital out of home companies have done an interesting tie-up aimed at helping smaller, independent digital billboard operators better monetize their …
Read moreBig Indie UK OOH Media Firm Wildstone Changes Hands; New Backers Supporting Expansion
August 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes
A French private equity firm has acquired the outdoor media firm Wildstone, picking up a portfolio of more than 3,000 billboards in in the …
Read moreHow Etulipa Sees Future Billboards Being E-Paper-Based And Solar-Powered
August 3, 2022 by Dave Haynes
E-paper displays are, by far, best known for the little e-readers people use instead of printed books. The core technology used for those readers …
Read moreImpairing Astronomers’ Work Cited As Argument Against Digital Billboards In Silicon Valley
March 23, 2022 by Dave Haynes
The bright lights of digital billboards have always generated some public opposition, particularly if a big roadside display’s visuals spill at night into the …
Read moreDigital Billboards In Ukraine Being Used To Dissuade, Insult Russian Invaders
February 28, 2022 by Dave Haynes
Hat Tip To Nurlan at Digital Signage Pulse for noting this … Digital billboards in many western countries have lit up in the past …
Read moreBig London Roadside Display Softens Visual Impact With Living Green Wall On Rear
January 4, 2022 by Dave Haynes
I doubt this sort of thing would fully remove the concerns and objections of organizations and individuals who don’t like the proliferation in cities …
Read moreOut Of Home Media Revenues Clobbered During Stay-At-Home Lockdowns: OAAA Data
September 2, 2021 by Dave Haynes
Data released recently by the Out Of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA) reveals just how badly the out of home ad sector was …
Read moreFord Patents Method To Scan DOOH Billboards, Push Versions Of Ads To Dashboard Screens
May 12, 2021 by Dave Haynes
Auto manufacturer Ford has patented a method and apparatus for using AI-driven pattern detection to read digital billboards on highways, using the on-board sensors …
Read moreUS Supreme Court Denies Appeal By Anti-Billboard Non-Profit
October 16, 2017 by Dave Haynes
A four-year legal fight over digital billboards that went all the way to the US Supreme Court ended today, with that country’s highest court …
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