Digital Now Accounts For 39% Of JC Decaux Revenue, Up 5 Points In One Year March 10, 2025 by Dave Haynes JC Decaux, the biggest largest outdoor ad company on the planet, saw the digital side of its business grow by 21.9% last year, with digital out-of-home advertising now making up 39% of the company’s total revenue – up nearly 5 percentage points year to year. Digital’s growth was even more pronounced in the fourth quarter, …
Barcelona’s Admira Gets A Visit From Nerd God Steve Wozniak March 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes For the last couple of years, I’ve spent the morning before ISE opens up in a lovely, relatively serene part of Barcelona called Gracia, visiting a digital signage solutions company called Admira and seeing what its CEO/Founder Carlos Silva Santin is up to now. He has built up a very successful company that ticks along …
Sphere’s Owners Looking At Quarter-Sized Venues To Spur Global Expansion March 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes Hat tip to Guy Campos and AV Magazine, which keeps a close eye on the Las Vegas Sphere’s business fortunes and plans … The company behind the giant LED-clad Sphere attraction in Las Vegas said in a quarterly earnings call with investment analysts this week that it is actively working on a franchise-like model that …
Digital Growth Drives Out-of-Home Ad Revenue to Historic $9.1 Billion: OAAA March 7, 2025 by Dave Haynes The out of home ad industry in the U.S. crossed the $9 billion revenue threshold for the first time, up 4.5% year on year to $9.1 billion, according to new data from the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA). DOOH continues to be the high performer, growing 7.5% in 2024 and now accounting …
Omdia: Advice On How Display Companies Might Navigate Tariffs Uncertainties March 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes Research firm Omdia’s Chief Analyst for looking at the display industry has a post up looking at the implications the tariffs battle might have on industry, and now that we’re in it – acknowledging things may have changed twice by the time I finish this post – it is a worthwhile read. Deborah Yang gets …
Giant ISLE LED Show Opens Tomorrow In Shenzhen; 1,000+ Vendors, 200K Attendees March 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes The actual numbers are are not at all clear, but what’s certain is that one whole hell of a lot of people will be fighting their way through the exhibition hall corridors of ISLE 2025, the giant LED display manufacturing show that starts a three-day run in Shenzen, China tomorrow. One description: Over 1,800 exhibitors …
Japanese Fashion House Turns Robes Into Pixel-Packed LED Displays March 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes Somewhere, there is a dreamer entrepreneur sitting in front of a monitor right now, having watched the video below, scratching her or his chin and and thinking about clothing as digital ad displays. Guaranteed. I’m not suggesting it’s a good idea – just that someone will be noodling the idea of garments becoming walking posters …
This Transparent OLED Display Moves Itself Around Retail And Other Venues March 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes Is there a market for a transparent OLED mounted atop a slowly-rolling delivery robot? Dunno. I have three very different thoughts here: This is expensive and technically fickle eye candy that will gets lots of attention and buzz, but result in few buyers; The excitement I see for this sort of thing at trade shows …
Broadsign, Sustainability Platform Scope3 Partner On Comprehensive CO2 Footprint Modelling For DOOH Networks March 6, 2025 by Dave Haynes You don’t get the sense energy conservation and greenhouse gas issues are going to get much attention in the U.S. anytime soon, but it’s something much of the rest of the world is looking at and in some cases putting rules and regulations around. To that end, the Canadian, DOOH focused CMS and programmatic company …
Daktronics’ Longtime Boss Reece Kurtenbach Steps Down From Company His Dad Co-Founded March 5, 2025 by Dave Haynes It would be reasonable to think that word from Daktronics that it had come to an understanding with its activist investors meant the company could focus entirely on making and selling big indoor and outdoor LED displays, but on the immediate heels of the investor fuss being resolved comes word that the company’s longtime President …
