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Out of home operator Exterion Media is expanding its EM Ventures with the launch of a Media for Equity programme offering start-ups outdoor advertising space and other services in return for an equity share. The new programme is an extension ...

French out of home giant JC Decaux has launched JCDecaux Dynamic, which it describes as a ‘global creative hub.’ It’s poached BBH head of creative technology Alex Matthews and the agency’s technical lead Rick Burgess to run the new outfit ...

CBS is trying to sell its CBS Outdoor out of home business outside the US (in the US it’s been changed into a real estate investment trust) and US company VeriFone is tipped as a likely bidder. VeriFone claims to ...

CBS CEO Leslie Moonves (pictured) has confirmed that he wants to offload its outdoor business outside the US (including the UK) while it plans to turn itself into a REIT, essentially a property investment company, in its home market. REITs ...

Know Digital founder and partner Rob Jenkins explains why increasingly popular QR codes on ads are no longer the best way to drive traffic to mobile websites. About five years ago I wrote a blog post for my previous agency ...

CBS Outdoor is suing London Underground owner Transport for London over its alleged mismanagement of the £1.5bn tube advertising contract CBS ‘won’ in 2006. Among the things CBS failed to anticipate were upgrading engineering works for the ageing system, modernisation ...

Back in 2006 (two years before the recession struck in the UK and elsewhere) CBS outdoor signed an eight and a half year deal with London Underground to instal digital screens in flagship Tube stations like Oxford Circus. In return ...

Digital posters (screens in shopping centres, moving pictures on the London Underground and all the rest of it) have been the next big thing in outdoor advertising (or in some cases indoor advertising) for years. But now they seem to ...

CBS Outdoor, the one-time Viacom company that is now going it alone with a ‘for sale’ sign on the door, has dispensed with the services of UK managing director Mike Moran and commercial director Mark Chippendale. Jason Cotterell, who negotiated ...