If commercial structures buy the electronic screen for its own purposes, it indirectly spends the money on a screen for the city where the outdoor screen will be installed.
First of all, an outdoor electronic screen is a new modern architectural discovery and a city pride, especially in provincial towns; secondly, it will be actively used during urban celebrations (the day of the city, folk feasts, national holidays), elections or before large scale national events.
In turn, businessmen receive access to the most favorable (commercially) resources of a concrete city or additional benefits and warranties to their business (and they really deserve it as they, actually, help their city). Thus businessmen return their money.
But even if the corporation that installs an outdoor electronic screen does not receive side benefits from administration, the corporation increases its authority and prestige in the eyes of its partners and the citizens, who are actually their clients. And confidence and authority are very important especially during financial and political cataclysms.