Digital Signs

Veale Outdoor and Public Service Advertising

Digital billboards allow a company to run time sensitive public service advertising.  Tom Jackson of Veale Outdoor tells Insider this: “We at Veale Outdoor feel it is important to be active participants in promoting local  community organizations and charities. It helps foster positive energy and growth within the communities that […]

Lafe Schneider on the Benefits of Blip

Toledo, Ohio based TDO Advertising uses Blip Billboards to manage 14 digital billboards.  TDO Outdoor’s General Manager Lafe Schneider shares his experience using Blip: Using Blip has increased our revenue.  Blip brings in a new class of advertisers. Current advertisers may look into Blip but will quickly find out it’s […]

Daktronics Displays at Football’s Biggest Game

BROOKINGS, S.D. – Jan. 28, 2019 – When the best football teams from each conference collide in Atlanta, Georgia, for the biggest game of the year, Daktronics (NASDAQ-DAKT) of Brookings, South Dakota, will have a hand in creating the atmosphere and experience for everyone in attendance. This year, Mercedes-Benz Stadium will host the New […]

Adomni and Broadsign Partner to Enhance and Simplify Digital Out of Home Marketing

LAS VEGAS – Adomni, an open online platform to find and buy DOOH advertising, and Broadsign, the leading DOOH marketing platform for media owners, are now working together to make buying, selling and launching DOOH campaigns easier than ever before.  The Broadsign Reach supply-side platform (SSP) which currently has over […]

Burr Smith on Fighting T-Rex

Yesterday digital out of home marketing platform provider Broadsign announced that T-Rex Property AB released Broadsign and Broadsign’s clients, from the T-Rex industry-wide patent infringement campaign. In response, Broadsign has agreed to dismiss its counter lawsuit against T-Rex.  Insider talked with Broadsign CEO Burr Smith Burr, congrats on the settlement. […]

T-Rex Settles with Broadsign and Broadsign’s Clients

Insider’s take:  Next time you see Broadsign’s CEO Burr Smith at a convention you need to buy him a drink.  Broadsign was the only digital sign company to fight back after TRex started suing out of home companies claiming patent infringement.  Insider thinks that it’s more than a coincidence that […]

Backup Power Options For Digital Billboards

Insider has a regular reader who works as a Permits Coordinator for the Department of Transportation in a western state.  He posed us the following question: In transportation, over the last 20 years, the majority of traffic signals in our area have transitioned to LED. During this transition, they have become […]

Privacy and Digital Billboards

Digital billboard opponents used to base all their arguments on safety.  It’s harder to make those claims in the wake of federal government studies which have found that digital billboards do not distract drivers.  Insider is starting to see digital billboard opponents raise privacy as an issue.  Here’s a quote […]

Shimmin on Digital Billboard Security

Insider heard reports this week that a digital billboard in the northwest got hacked.   We asked Formetco’s Jim Shimmin to talk about digital billboard security. Jim, how do Independent Billboard Operators protect their digital billboards from being hacked? The two most important things are Network Security and Password Security. Network […]

Provenzano says programmatic OOH is $80 million going to $150 million in 2019.

Vistar Media’s CEO Michael Provenzano appeared on the Dec 4 Ad Exchanger Talks podcast to talk about programmatic out of home.  Vistar’s been on a tear with revenues in excess of $20 million and 65% year over year growth.  Here are the highlights. On the digital sign market You’ve got […]