Tag: digital billboards

City of Houston Has RFP For Digital Billboards

In a November article, with Richard Rothfelder, on a 55 year look at the Houston billboard market, Insider expressed our surprise that there was no discussion of digital billboards.  Rothfelder indicated that unlike many cities across Texas and the country, Houston still doesn’t permit digital displays for off-premise signs.  A […]

Pattison Outdoor Raises the Bar in Quality With New Digital Superboards

Toronto, ON, December 2, 2020 – Canada’s leading Out-of-Home advertising company PATTISON Outdoor Advertising expands its national offering of premium, large-format Digital advertising displays with the launch of a new dual-sided Digital Superboard located on the Gardiner Expressway, West of Dufferin Street in Toronto, Ontario. Measuring at 16’ x 56’, the […]

MLS Connected Digital Billboards Controlled by Real Estate Brokers Launch in US

Bismarck, ND (October 27th, 2020) – Realty One Group – Encore became the first real estate brokerage to control their digital billboards in real-time with the Lucit Layout smart-phone application connected directly to their MLS system. Layout, which launched earlier this year for auto dealers, automatically generates digital billboard creatives […]

Grey Vick On Small Market Digital Billboards

Today’s podcast guest is Grey Vick the founder Grey Outdoor, an independent out of home company with 260 billboard structures in North and South Carolina.  Here are his thoughts about digital billboards and small markets. On Digital signs. We’ve got a few digitals and we’re going to be doing more…We’ve […]

Toyota Dealership uses Smartphone App to Program Ads on Digital Billboards

Dan Porter Motors, Dickinson, ND, in June of 2020 became the first automotive dealership in the U.S. to control their inventory on outdoor digital billboards, in real-time with the Lucit Layout smartphone app. “Our objective was to develop an application to publish inventory, to digital billboards, with a single click”, […]

Community Friendly Digital Billboards

What can the industry do to help make digital billboards more community friendly? That question has been on the mind of Media Resources’ Chief Product Architect, Cheng Qian, for years. Digital Billboards have proven very effective, dynamic tools to connect people with products, services, and information. However, the use of […]

Watchfire introduces light blocking technology

Watchfire has designed a new patent pending digital billboard light blocking technology for locations that require  a narrower viewing angle. Insider talked with Watchfire’s Darrin Friskney about the product. Darrin talk about the louvers. The louvers eliminate light spillage from digital billboards by narrowing the billboard viewing angle from 140 […]

Plainview LED Expands Chattanooga Operations

Chattanooga, Tennessee-based PlainView LED is expanding operations with a new assembly plant. The 10,500-square foot facility was purchased March 24 of this year, as the COVID-19 pandemic began to rock Tennessee. PlainView LED staff members completed building renovations in just 45 days. “The ‘pause’ in the economy allowed us time […]