Digital Signs

Watchfire Retiring 12 year old Digital Billboard.

If you’ve ever visited Watchfire’s Danville headquarters you’ve seen this 14 by 48 billboard. Still looks great.  It’s a 19mm model which is 12 years old.  Watchfire will replace it with a new 16 mm billboard later this summer along with new internal components and wiring.  The original structure and […]

Making Missouri’s Largest Digital billboard

On Monday Insider wrote about Watkins Outdoor’s installation of a 22’5″ by 36’5″ billboard in Missouri.  Daktronics manufactured the sign.  Insider asked Daktronics project manager Doug Stearns to talk about the project. Give us an overview of Daktronics relationship with Watkins Outdoor Watkins Outdoor has been buying digital billboards from […]

Broadsign Partners with Place Exchange for DOOH

MONTREAL, Canada and New York, NY — August 6, 2019 — Broadsign, the leading digital out-of-home (DOOH) marketing platform for media owners and Place Exchange, the only true programmatic exchange for out-of-home and place-based media, announced an integration to enable digital buyers to transact DOOH programmatically as a simple add-on to existing digital media […]

Watkins Installs Missouri’s Largest Digital Billboard

Watkins Outdoor has installed one of the largest digital billboards in the state of Missouri.  The sign measures 22’5″ by 36’5″ and is located at 440 N 190th St in Ozark, Missouri.  The sign is so big it requires two proof of performance and monitoring cameras instead of one.  Daktronics […]

Daktronics Selected by Amherst Media for New Digital Showcase

BROOKINGS, S.D. – Aug. 1, 2019 – Daktronics (NASDAQ-DAKT) of Brookings, South Dakota, was chosen by Amherst Media to design, manufacture and install a new out of home (OOH) digital showcase in Boston, Massachusetts. The display has been encased into the façade of the newly constructed Marriott Moxy Hotel, located in the Downtown Theater […]

Considerations, Approaches to Programmatic OOH

By Stephen Freitas, OAAA Chief Marketing Officer Last week the OAAA Innovations Committee met for its annual Summer Camp in Washington, DC. The forward-looking group meets each July for two days in our nation’s capital to discuss the future of OOH and how tech can advance industry initiatives. One of […]

Competition For The Largest High School Scoreboard

Shortly after Insider posted the press release on Lightking’s announced second largest high school video scoreboard, we heard the following from Jeff Anderson at VCRNOW. “Last summer we installed Brownsville ISD Scoreboard which is 33′ 7 1/8″ x 65′ 1 1/8″ video screen only. The previous summer we installed PSJA […]

Lightking Scores 2nd Largest High School Video Scoreboard in US

Patented Air Series product critical to winning bid for a 30’x60’ video scoreboard at Zachary High School, a leading football program in Louisiana (DORAL, FL. – July 23, 2019)  Lightking™, the innovation-driven outdoor LED screen manufacturer, announced that its patented lightweight, vented Air Series LED board was chosen for the […]

Jared Johnson Joins Media Resources

Media Resources is proud to announce the addition of Jared Johnson to our Digital LED Display division where his concentration will be DOOH. Media Resources was founded by Outdoor Advertising veterans, and Jared is a true billboard guy with two decades of local, regional and national experience. Asked why he […]

Broadsign Powers One of Asia’s Largest Digital Displays

MONTREAL, JULY 23, 2019 — Broadsign International Inc., the leading out-of-home (OOH) marketing solution, today announced that it has been selected by Oriental Sunrise Media Group, a growing Chinese OOH media company, to deliver advertising, augmented reality, and live content experiences to Oriental Sunrise’s digital signage network. This network includes […]