Showing posts with label Digital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Digital. Show all posts

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Google becomes first to rent world biggest digital billboard in Times Square

Billed as Times Square"s largest and most expensive digital billboard, a new megascreen is debuted in front of the Marriott Marquis hotel on November 18, 2014 in New York CityGoogle has become the first company to rent to the world's largest and most expensive digital billboard in Times Square, New York.

The billboard is eight storeys high and is estimated to cost $2.5m (£1.6m) to hire for four weeks.

The screen, which is the size of a football field, is mounted on the side of the Marriot Marquis hotel.

Around 300,000 pedestrians are estimated to pass by the billboard every day.

Times Square's brightly-lit billboards are some of the most iconic and well-known outdoor advertising spaces.

Sunday, November 16, 2014

BET Halting 106 and Park after 14 years on the air...

 
After 14 years on the network, BET's top music/variety show “106 & Park” will air its final televised show this December.

BET President Stephen Hill said in a media statement yesterday Nov. 14th that 106 and Park will air its last episode December 19, 2014, and that the show would become "digital only."
"It’s been a great 14-year run as America’s top music/variety show on cable. And now that very valuable brand is going to take its talents to the digital realm. The interactive brand you helped build, '106 & Park,’ is alive and well and it’s moving to the space in which our audience now interacts with music the most: online.” Hill said
The show is currently being hosted by Bow Wow and Keshia Chante.