Earlier this week, Billboard Insider wrote about a Verde Outdoor (“Verde”) lawsuit alleging fraud against JR Media, John “Jed” Renfroe, Christa Hurley (Jed Renfroe’s sister) and Marcus Ben Jones (collectively “Sellers”. It appears that legal difficulties between the parties commenced with a Petition for Declaratory Judgement filed over a year ago […]
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Super Optimal will Optimize your Out of Home Ads
At last week’s IBO show, Neil Morris of Super Optimal demonstrated a simple web tool for reviewing and improving out of home ads. You upload an ad to the superoptimal.ai website and it assesses the effectiveness of the ad and suggests improvements. Here’s a poorly designed out of home ad […]
ArtPop Names 24 Featured Artists for 2026
ArtPop is Growing Its Artist Cohort, and its Community Impact Yet This year, additional funding will support more young creatives CHARLOTTE, N.C. (April 23, 2026) – ArtPop, a local nonprofit that amplifies the Charlotte region’s creative spirit by transforming everyday places into creative and immersive experiences, has announced its largest […]
Company of the Day: Meadow Outdoor
Company: Meadow Outdoor Markets: Washington, Oregon, California, Idaho Headquarters: PO Box 331, The Dalles, OR 97058 Phone: 800-221-4114 Email: meadow@meadowoutdoor.com Meadow Outdoor is a family-owned which operates over 1,150 faces including 25 digital faces in 4 western states. The firm started by Joe Zukin in 1968. Joe Zukin died on December 4, 2018. […]
Four Errors Out of Home Companies Make
Neil Bell has started a new Billboard Industry podcast called The Bell Board Podcast. You can find it on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or the usual podcast outlets or by subscribing to the Bell Board Podcast on youtube. Billboard Insider Co-Publisher Dave Westburg was Bell’s first guest. Dave talked about four […]
Earth Day Partners with OAAA
WASHINGTON, D.C. – EARTHDAY.ORG, the global force behind Earth Day, today announced its eighth consecutive year of partnership with the Out of Home Advertising Association of America (OAAA), the national trade association representing the entire out of home advertising industry, to bring Earth Day 2026’s message of environmental action to […]
Liz Scott on the importance of per board metrics
At last week’s IBO conference accounting technologist Liz Scott talked about the single most important accounting change operators can make and how AI is making it possible. Here’s a summary of her talk You drive past a board on the highway and feel proud — that feeling might be misleading. […]
Talon launches AI powered planning engine
20 April 2026, London / New York: Talon, the world’s leading independent Out of Home (OOH) specialist, today announced the launch of Atlas Planner, an AI-powered planning engine that brings greater intelligence, agility and accountability to programmatic digital OOH (PDOOH). Through an intuitive, conversational interface, Atlas Planner can interpret a […]
JCDecaux, Bauer and Global CEO’s to appear at WOOH June congress.
The leaders of the UK’s big three Out of Home media owners – Dallas Wiles, Co-CEO of JCDecaux, Justin Cochrane, President and CEO Outdoor at Bauer Media and Global Chief Commercial Officer Mike Gordon – will appear together for the first time on a panel looking in-depth at the state […]
Company of the Day: McWhorter Media
Company: McWhorter Media Group Markets: Virginia, Pennsylvania, South Carolina Address: 162 W. Main St, Suite 101, Cartersville, GA. 30120 Phone: 724-972-8629 Email: sales@mcwhortermedia.com McWhorter Media Group operates a billboard plant with 94 faces, including 20 digital displays in Pennsylvania, Virginia and South Carolina. Deanna Berry is Chief Operating Officer. Josh […]
























