Digital Signs

Land Securities & Ocean Outdoor Unveil Piccadilly Lights Transformation

Coca Cola and Samsung sign to new proposition Piccadilly Lights, the world’s number one advertising location in London’s West End, is to undergo a significant transformation. Ocean Outdoor, the premium out of home media owner, has won the contract to operate the central London landmark as part of a milestone […]

All LED’s are not created equal.

Insider hears this from time to time: “All LED’s are purchased from the same asian factories so one digital billboard is just as good as another.”  Not true.  Take a look at the picture below.  It consists of a collection of LEDs purchased in Asia.  All LED’s are not created […]

Hollywood High Considering Digital Billboard

Hollywood High School has proposed a plan to erect a digital billboard at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Highland Avenue. The billboard would be on school grounds, and have two faces pointing at both streets, according to an artist’s rendering in the proposal’s presentation. One district that made the leap […]

Four Tips For Buying A Digital Billboard

Here are Insider’s four tips for buying a digital billboard based on our experience financing digital billboards and talking with billboard operators who’ve installed digital billboards. Buy American.  Maybe it works if you’re Outfront, but Insider hears lots of horror stories from independent operators who’ve tried to buy direct from […]

A Step By Step Billboard Installation

Here are some pictures from a challenging two sided 14 by 48 digital sign installation on the Florida State Fairgrounds in Tampa Florida.  Selective Structures did the fabrication and install.  Formetco supplied the digital sign.   The installation was complicated because it occurred in an extremely wet area next to a pond. Here’s […]

Congressman Wins with Digital Billboards and Online Ads

By Ken Klein, EVP, Outdoor Advertising Association of America RENO, NV—Upending conventional media habits, the congressman from northern Nevada won re-election without TV ads or direct mail. Instead, this winning candidate’s media mix was dominated by online ads and digital billboards, with some radio. On November 8, U.S. Rep. Mark […]

First Ever Halo Display Engineered By Daktronics

Halo, mega column highlight total of 82,500 square feet of LED displays BROOKINGS, S.D. – Nov. 1, 2016 – The largest LED video display in all of sports has been designed and engineered, and is now being manufactured and installed, by Daktronics (NASDAQ-DAKT) of Brookings, South Dakota, for Mercedes-Benz Stadium, […]

Watchfire RSS Feed Updates Billboards With Real-time Presidential Election Results

DANVILLE, IL–(Marketwired – Nov 2, 2016) – Owners of Watchfire digital billboards can download a free widget that allows marketers to integrate real-time presidential election results on their billboards. Click to Tweet. The widget will allow Watchfire digital billboard owners to display the popular vote total and electoral college vote […]

Gallatin Tennessee Gets Digital Billboard

The Tennessean reports that Gallatin’s first digital billboard is operating.  Lamar has converted a billboard on West Main Street behind Krystal from static to digital. Gallatin voted earlier this year to amend city regulations and end a decade long ban on new digital signs and billboards. Lamar is the only […]