Digital Signs

Donor for Dad Billboards

A huge thank you to all the Billboard Insider readers who are running DonorforDad.com copy to help Formetco’s Todd Heller find a kidney donor.  Insider hears the campaign has been posted on over 200 faces. Barrett Outdoor on I-95 near New Haven Connecticut Adams Outdoor Digitals in Michigan   94 […]

Digital Billboards Warn Public of Fires in Northern California

Digital billboards have been an important way of communicating with the public during the wildfires in Northern California.  Look at this post by Outfront’s Rob Schilling. Insider’s take:  The knee jerk “I don’t want our city to become Las Vegas” opposition to digital billboards completely overlooks the public communication function […]

Digital Billboard Power Use

Bad information dies hard.  Last week Manhattan, Kansas commissioner Jerred McKee explained his opposition to digital billboards to The Collegian: “Character is my biggest concern,” McKee said. “In a study I read, digital billboards have a bigger carbon footprint and use 30 times more energy than the average home in […]

The Case for Personal Ads on Digital Billboards

Earlier this week Insider ran a post discussing the risks of running personal ads on digital billboards.  Today Chris Cowlbeck makes case for personal ads: By Chris Cowlbeck, General Manager Look Billboards and General Manager, IBOUSA We at IBO HQ recently saw a few stories about personal ads and wanted […]

Broadsign and Adquick to Integrate Systems

MONTREAL, Canada and Los Angeles, CA.  October 23,2019 —​ B​roadsign​, the leading digital out-of-home (DOOH) marketing platform, and ​AdQuick.com,​ ​the out of home (OOH) advertising software company ​backed by Reddit co-founder, Alexis Ohanian, have partnered to integrate the AdQuick platform with the Broadsign Reach SSP​.  ​The integration allows media buyers […]

Vistar’s Provenzano says excitement is at an overall high.

Insider sat down with Michael Provenzano, CEO and Co-Founder of Vistar Media, the automated out of home buying platform, during Digital Signage Week. You added several programmatic partners earlier this month. Over the last 8 years we’ve had a Demand Side Platform (“DSP”) for agencies and brands and a supply […]

5 Quotes from Digital Signage Week

Here are five interesting quotes Insider heard in sessions and conversations during Digital Signage Week. Adomni’s Jonathan Gudai on how automated buying platforms are changing out of home: Less than 10% of the global out of home inventory is digital.  That’s going to change.  85% of digital online ads are […]

The Most Valuable Out of Home Site in the US

  During Digital Sign Week you ought to wander down to Times Square to take a look at Prismview’s One Times Square digital billboard located at 42nd and Broadway.  It just might be the most valuable advertising location in the world.    New Tradition Media handles the ad sales.  The […]

Fleischer Says Blip Democraticizes Out of Home Buying

Last week Blip appointed Daniel Fleischer as General Manager Blip Canada and VP of International Publisher Marketing.  Insider talked with Fleischer about automated out of home buying. How did you get involved with the out of home business I was introduced to it by the folks at Broadsign 10 years […]

Digital Billboard Light Footprint an Issue in Weymouth

  The Weymouth News reports that one digital billboard has been turned off and the town council is requesting no new permits be issued for digital billboards due to lighting issues.  Residents have been complaining about light from a digital billboard operated by Cove Outdoor Advertising at 611 Pleasant Street […]