Digital billboard manufacturer Daktronics earned a profit of $0.9 million on revenue of $144 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017 (3 months ended April 29, 2017) versus a net loss of $2.9 million on revenue of $138 million during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2016 Here are highlights […]
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HNA Group Launches Interactive Campaign in Times Square to End World Hunger
NEW YORK and SHANGHAI, May 26, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — In support of world hunger relief efforts, HNA Group, a Fortune 500 company focused on tourism, logistics and financial services, announced the successful launch of its #ShareMoreDreamMore campaign in Times Square, New York City, engaging more than 10,000 active participants in […]
Company of the Day – Gilbreath Outdoor
Company: Gilbreath Outdoor Advertising Markets: Southeast Texas Headquarters: 407 South Friendswood Drive, Friendswood, TX 77546 Phone: 281-992-4555 Email: brett@gilbreathoutdoor.com Brett E. Gilbreath of Gilbreath Outdoor Advertising has been in the outdoor advertising industry literally all of his life. His father founded a small billboard company in 1964 and Brett worked […]
Kiosk Hack Highlights Importance of Security
Masheable and Digital Signage Today have written about a porn video which showed for three minutes at rush hour on a digital kiosk touchscreen in Washington DC’s Union Station on Monday May 15. The kiosk’s software was not secure or password protected. The hacker used the kiosk’s touch screen to access and display a […]
Chan Lieu on Autonomous Cars
Autonomous cars are coming but they won’t happen soon. Here’s a summary of a talk by Chan Lieu of Venable, LLC at the Lookout2017 convention The case for autonomous cars rests on safety. 94% of crashes are due to driver error. 40,000 lives are lost a year. Car manufacturers are […]
Company of the Day: George Lay Signs
Company of the Day: George Lay Signs Market: Kansas Headquarters: 1016 N. Waco, Wichita, KS 67203-3999 Phone: 800-888-0433 George Lay Signs is a family-owned Wichita based signs company and billboard business. The company was started in 1955 when George Lay quit his job designing neon signs for Wichita’s leading sign tompany […]
Mike Norton: Five Reasons I Support Photo Ark
By Mike Norton, EVP Norton Advertising When National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore visits Cincinnati on Wednesday (May 31), he will provoke us. Joel will ask us to help protect animals facing extinction. His sobering thesis is that animal extinction hurts humans (and conversely, preventing animal extinction benefits mankind). Joel’s award-winning […]
Pumping Out A Brand
Evan Schultz , Art Director at Adams Outdoor does a terrific job of presenting his creative ideas on paper. Insider especially likes the sketches he includes to help understand his process. Here is his latest article. Do you bleed for your client? Does your client bleed for their customers? Or […]
Palmer, PA resets digital billboard rules.
Lehigh Valley Live reports that Palmer Township, Pennsylvania is revising digital billboard regulations. The revision follows a November 2015 legal decision to scrap the towns digital billboard ordinance after neighbors complained about billboard lights. The new ordinance will keep digital signs away from residential areas and require that digital billboards […]
Company of the Day – Genesis Outdoor
Company: Genesis Outdoor Advertising Headquarters: 25 E Boardman St, Youngstown, OH 44503 Phone: (330) 747-0057 Email: info@genesisbillboards.com Billboard locations in the Youngstown-Boardman, Ohio markets as well as Western Pennsylvania (New Castle,Monaca, Chippewa, and Pittsburgh) [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement