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Midwich Group Plc Preliminary Results

Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

Maddie Cotterill

Midwich, a leading specialist audio visual and document solutions distributor to the trade market, today announced its maiden Preliminary Results for the year to 31 December 2016. Year to  £000 31-Dec-16 31-Dec-15 % change Revenue 370,142 314,283 17.8% Gross Profit 56,461 46,961 20.2% Gross profit % 15.3% 14.9% Operating profit 14,487 12,641 14.6% Adjusted operating profit (1) […]

Dynamic Outdoor Turns on 11 New Digital Billboards

Tuesday, March 14th, 2017

Maddie Cotterill

Dynamic Outdoor has announced a significant expansion in three of Canada’s top advertising markets; Toronto, Calgary and Edmonton and includes four faces on overpasses in north Toronto, a combination of large format and poster size faces in Calgary and two large format faces in Edmonton. The Toronto overpass faces are in addition to an announcement […]

#dse2017 Analytics: From Insights to Predictions

Monday, March 13th, 2017

Maddie Cotterill

The Digital Out-of-Home Strategy Summit (put together by the Digital Signage Federation) taking place Tuesday, March 28, 2017 has some strong panels, one of which is ‘Analytics: From Insights to Predictions‘ moderated by former Scala CEO Tom Nix (now doing some work advising NYC based Predict Ventures). It takes place immediately after our own editor-in-chief’s […]

ScoreStream joins @DPAAorg

Monday, March 13th, 2017

Maddie Cotterill

The Digital Place Based Advertising Association (DPAA) announced this week that ScoreStream has become the newest member of the rapidly growing digital out-of-home marketing association. ScoreStream is the first and only crowd-sourcing platform for live local sports. Sourcing real time coverage from thousands of high school games per week, the ScoreStream mobile app enables users […]

oOh!s 2016 Future Thinker Wins Trip 2 #SXSW

Saturday, March 11th, 2017

Maddie Cotterill

Now this is an internal company competition to win. Three months ago, oOh!’s Marketing Executive‘ Natalie Waddell won oOh!’s inaugural innovation competition and with that, was named oOh!s 2016 Future Thinker. With that, she landed a fully paid trip to North America and a Platinum VIP pass to the #SXSW festival.

Andrea Messimer Henley joins Wilkins Media

Friday, March 10th, 2017

Maddie Cotterill

Wilkins Media announced this week, the addition of OOH Industry veteran Andrea Messimer Henley to their team of professionals. Andrea brings over 20 years of experience in OOH advertising sales and will be overseeing the Tampa market as well as serving the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic area. Prior to coming to Wilkins, Andrea ran an independent […]

MaxMedia Brings Thought Leadership To #dse2017

Thursday, March 9th, 2017

Maddie Cotterill

Retail innovation agency MaxMedia will bring insights on the convergence of digital media and the retail customer experience to attendees of #dse2017 taking place March 29-30 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. As in previous years, MaxMedia EVP Customer Experience Laura Davis-Taylor and VP Strategy Ed King will both contribute to the educational cause. Laura […]

Alan Brydon Made @8OutdoorMedia Chairman

Wednesday, March 8th, 2017

Maddie Cotterill

Back in October 2016, Alan Brydon, previously Chief Executive of Outsmart (before it was abandoned by certain sections of the UK industry), joined 8 Outdoor as Non-Executive Board Director. This week it was announced that super nice, intelligent, very very clever man Alan Brydon has been appointed as chairman and comes also with news of […]

DOmedia Integrates Inventory Availability into its Platform for #OOH Vendors

Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

Maddie Cotterill

DOmedia is launching an expansion of their Supply-Side Platform – starting today, a select group of top media sellers will begin using DOmedia to chart the availability of their inventory. DOmedia launched their SSP back in March of 2016 and three months later DOmedia told us that they had signed agreements with OOH vendors representing […]

Clear Channel Airports Renews Contract with South Bend International Airport

Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

Maddie Cotterill

Clear Channel Airports, a brand division of Clear Channel Outdoor Americas (NYSE: CCO), and a subsidiary of iHeartMedia Inc., today announced that South Bend International Airport has awarded it a five-year contract with a five year extension option to provide a cutting edge digital media program. The new advertising network with allow national and regional […]