The Sun Times is reporting that Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is proposing a four year extension of a 20-year billboard agreement in his 2017 budget. The original agreement called for JCDecaux, partnering with Interstate Outdoor Advertising, to put up 34 digital signs on city property adjacent to the Kennedy, Dan Ryan, […]
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Celebrate The Exit
Insider fills time in the car listening to business podcasts. How I Built This is a good one. NPR interviews business founders about challenges they’ve overcome. Recode Media With Peter Kafka is good if you want to follow media. Recode Decode covers tech and is worth listening to as long […]
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 […]
Alda Billboards May Be Getting Bigger
The Village of Alda NE is looking at increasing the maximum permitted signs from 200 to 288 square feet. USA Outdoor, based in Kearney NE, has a proposal presented to the Regional Planning Commission for the larger sized billboard. The Planning Commission meeting is set for this Wednesday. A positive vote […]
Company of the Day – Iconic Outdoor
Company: Iconic Outdoor Headquarters: 24 Vine Street 2nd Floor, Everett, MA 02149 Markets: Massachusetts, California, New York. Phone: 888.542.6642 Formed by outdoor advertising pioneer James O’Neill, Iconic Outdoor offers advertisers premium out-of-home media, with over 20 Billboards & Wallscapes available in the following markets: Boston New York Los Angeles Iconic also operate a nationwide […]
TRex Litigation Update November 2016
Samsung Electronics America purchased the digital billboard operations of Yesco in May 2015 and rebranded the Yesco’s digital sign operations as Prismview, LLC.. A representative of Samsung Electronics America which owns Prismview LLC. asked Insider to make two corrections to an article published last week on T-Rex sign litigation. First […]
Only One Label Counts on Election Day — VOTER
Thanks to Clear Channel Outdoor for allowing us to reprint their article. Enjoy! It’s been a tumultuous (to say the least) election cycle and for most — November 8 can’t come soon enough. To encourage more citizens to show up at the polls, the Outdoor Advertising Association of America (OAAA) […]
Company of the Day: Harvest Outdoor
Company: Harvest Outdoor Markets: Illinois Headquarters: 2516 Waukegan Road, PMB 350, Glenview, Illinois 60025-1774 Phone: 847-509-8876 Email: info@harvestoutdoor.com Harvest Outdoor operates a wall and billboard plant in Chicago. Mike McHugh is the company’s owner. Paid Ad
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 […]
Google, Beacons and Digital Signs
Dave Haynes at Sixteen Nine has a fascinating podcast interview with Chris Lydle, Google lead for digital signage and kiosks. Lydle says Google doesn’t want to compete in developing a content management system for digital signage but that it wants products like Chrome, Android and Eddystone to be used as the […]