Tag: digital billboard

A digital billboard boycott?

Cobb business faces boycott after advertising on LED billboard screams the newspaper headline.  Cobb, Georgia residents are using Next Door to organize a boycott of a Elan cycle fitness after Elan placed an ad on a digital billboard owned by Vision Outdoor, LLC. Vision was granted 8 digital billboard permits […]

Metro Says New OOH Contract Worth Hundreds of Millions

Metro will dramatically expand its digital advertising network under a new contract that will provide an infusion of revenue to support rail and bus services for Metro riders. The ten-year contract for Metro’s advertising concession, awarded to OUTFRONT Media, Inc., is valued at more than $336 million over the next […]

Why You Need Billboard Insurance

A newly installed wind turbine came apart and took out a digital billboard in New York yesterday.  You can read about the accident and watch video of the digital billboard falling on the Eyewitness News website.   Insider’s take:  Insider guesses that the wind turbine company will ultimately be liable but […]

Park Outdoor Installs its First Digital Billboard in Binghamton, NY

Binghamton, N.Y. – December 10, 2019 – Passersby in Binghamton, New York, will notice a change in their daily commute. Park Outdoor Advertising installed a digital billboard supplied by Lightking on the Brandywine Highway, entering the Court St. gateway. “The signs offer local businesses a flexible advertising medium that also […]

Watchfire Retiring 12 year old Digital Billboard.

If you’ve ever visited Watchfire’s Danville headquarters you’ve seen this 14 by 48 billboard. Still looks great.  It’s a 19mm model which is 12 years old.  Watchfire will replace it with a new 16 mm billboard later this summer along with new internal components and wiring.  The original structure and […]

New Tradition inks lease for 46 story digital billboard at One Times Square

NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–One of the country’s leading out-of-home advertising firms, New Tradition, has signed a master lease agreement for the new digital signage currently being built at One Times Square, the internationally-recognizable tower located in the center of Times Square. The property’s owner, Jamestown, announced the deal today. As the master signage […]

Digital Billboard Fight in Braintree MASS

The Boston Globe reports that Tom Sullivan (Lumber Liquidators and Cabinents to Go) and RJ Valentine (MBA Umbrella group) are fighting over the right to install a digital billboard on I-93 in Braintree, Massachusetts.  There’s a 1,000 foot setback between digital billboards in Boston so there will only be one […]

Know The Regs Before You Build

The Denver Post and 16:9 have written about a welcome sign/digital billboard on Pena Boulevard as you exit the Denver Airport.  Panasonic is the sign manufacturer.  The $14.5 million cost of the sign was to have been recovered by advertising.  the problem was that nobody at the airport did the […]

How Daktronics built a 146′ wide curved digital billboard.

  In October 2017 Daktronics completed the installation of a massive new curved digital billboard at London’s Piccadilly circus.  The display is 17.6 meters high and 44.6 meters wide (that’s 57 feet by 146 feet).  The sign curves around the corner of the building and can show a large piece of […]

New Digital Billboard in Meriden, CT

Insider has edited a previous version of this article to correct some errors.  The sign which is the subject of the article is on private land, not on city land and was not subject to any local disputes. myrecordjournal has an article about a new Meriden, CT digital billboard constructed […]