By Cheng Qian, Chief Product Architect You probably have a great digital location opportunity that checks off all the boxes: Great potential lease deal Great impressions count Great approach and read Great fit with regulatory and permitting requirements Except it’s too close to a light-sensitive area… SITELINE™, by Media Resources, […]
Digital Signs
Ashby Street Adds Digitals in Bentonville, AR
Ashby Street Outdoor plans to remove 16 billboards, representing 5,560 square feet of static space to add seven digital faces throughout the City of Bentonville Arkansas as reported by the Democrat Gazette. Bentonville Arkansas first permitted digital billboards in 2010. The ordinance originally stated that to add one digital screen […]
Daktronics Reports Decreased Revenue and Profit in 1Q fiscal 2019
Daktronics reported financials for the first quarter of fiscal 2019 (3 months ended July 28, 2018). Sales declined 11% to $154M for the quarter. Net income declined 45% to $4.6M for the quarter. Daktronics CEO, Reece Kurtenbach led off his portion of Tuesday’s earnings call by stating: “Our first quarter financial results […]
Another Locality Accepts Digital Billboards
Darlington County (South Carolina) changed its sign ordinance to allow digital billboards; the new ordinance was approved August 13. Those advocating updates to local controls to keep pace with technology will find model components in the Darlington County. Here’s how the county changed its ordinance: The county added a definition […]
Birth Announcements and Digital Signs
Grey Vick of Vick Outdoor used his digital billboards to announce the birth of a son. He tells Insider: “We got lots of hits online and social media with the photos of our new baby!! We ran him on 3 of our digitals after he was born! Got a couple […]
C&S Saves $30,000 on Digital Billboard with Watchfire/Blip Incentives
C&S Outdoors owns 3 billboards in Alabama. C&S saved $30,000 on the upfront cost of a digital sign by using an innovative partnership between Watchfire and Blip. Insider talked with Grant Cox, manager of C&S Outdoors about the plan. Grant tell us a little bit about your digital sign project. […]
Have You Cleaned Your Digital Billboards?
Did you know you should clean your digital billboards every four years? That’s the word from digital billboard maker Daktronics. Insider talked with Joni Schmeichel, Daktronics Out of Home Strategic Marketing Manager about cleaning digital billboards. Joni, how often do you recommend cleaning a digital billboard. We suggest a cleaning […]
More China Tariffs
Prepare for a price increase on your Chinese-imported LED’s and digital billboards. This week the Trump administration proposed a new 10% tariff on a 195 page list of chinese imports. Here’s the tariff picture in three numbers. $426 billion. Chinese imports to the US. $34 billion. Chinese imports subject to […]
Clear Channel Airports Wins 5-Year Renewal with Fort Lauderdale Hollywood Airport
Ft. Lauderdale, FL – – Clear Channel Airports (CCA), a brand division of Clear Channel Outdoor Americas (CCOA) (NYSE: CCO), an indirect subsidiary of iHeartMedia Inc., today announced it won a five-year renewal with Broward County’s Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport (FLL) to provide a new state-of-the-art digital advertising network. The new agreement began […]
Comstor installs its 1st digital billboard.
This is the second article in a three part series on an independent out of home company’s experience installing its first digital billboard. Comstor Outdoor has a 400 face plant in Ohio and Indiana. Comstor just installed its first digital billboard. We previously interviewed Comstor Marketing Executive Eddie Saunders Jr […]