Author: billboardinsider

Kevin Bartanian Says Kevani is Expanding

Company: KEVANI Markets:  California, New York Headquarters: 888 S. Figueroa Street, #370, Los Angeles, CA. 90017 Phone: 310-579-9343 Email: info@kevani.com KEVANI is an award-winning out-of-home (OOH) media company that promotes national and local brands through innovative outdoor advertising destinations. The company has 82 large format faces with over 100,300 square feet […]

Lamar Priorities: Digital Conversions, Aquisitions and Easements

Here’s a summary of Lamar Advertising CEO Sean Reilly’s comments at this week’s Morgan Stanley 2026 Technology, Media & Telecom Conference, sponsored and analyzed by SignValue. Lamar is finishing a multi-year, Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP project So we had what IT people call technical debt, right, 20-, 30-year-old legacy systems […]

Company of the Day: Lake Billboard

Company: Lake Billboard Markets: Ohio Address: 1285 North Ridge Rd., Painesville, OH 44077 Email: brian.avsec@lakebillboard.com Phone: 440–2 90–9765 Lake billboard operates a two sided digital billboard outside of Painesville Ohio.  Billboard Insider talked with Brian Avsec, the company’s founder. How did you get into the out of home business. I […]

Digital billboards provide OUTFRONT a 4X sales lift

OUTFRONT executives appeared at yesterday’s Citi 2026 Global Property CEO Conference yesterday.  Here’s a summary of their comments, sponsored and analyzed by SignValue. OUTFRONT CEO Nick Brien says changes are coming to Geopath There’s an executive work party that’s been working…with the OAAA and now that’s down to two key […]

Extra Credit Products wins ADDY Awards

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH — Grand Rapids advertising and design agency Extra Credit Projects (ECP) won 15 awards at last week’s American Advertising Federation (AAF) annual American Advertising Awards (ADDYs). The event was hosted by the West Michigan chapter at the JW Marriott ballroom. ECP took home more awards than any other entrant, […]

Kevin Gephart on How to Compensate Reps for Selling Digital

I’m running a series of columns in which I answer reader questions on sales.  Last week I talked about selling long term versus selling short term.  Today I talk about how to compensate sales reps for selling digital billboard advertising. How should I compensate my sales reps for selling Digital? […]

Billboard Insider’s Updated Contractor List March 2026

We’ve added several more names to our list of our of home contractors.  This updated list includes contractors who do sign fabrication and repair, vinyl install, vegetation, electrical, lighting, foundations, excavating and painting.  We’ve sorted the list by state and have put the contractors who are active in every state […]

JcDecaux Wins 10 Year Denver Airport Contract

Paris, 3 March, 2026 – JCDecaux SE (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announced today that its subsidiary, JCDecaux North America, has been selected to receive a 10-year advertising contract for Denver International Airport (DEN), following a comprehensive competitive bid process. The contract will be considered […]

Company of the Day: Kevani

Company: KEVANI Markets:  California, New York Headquarters: 1013 S. Los Angeles St, Suite 8A, Los Angeles, CA 90015 Phone: 310-579-9343 Email:  info@kevani.com KEVANI is an out of home sales organization which specializes in high profile out of home assets.  The company has 24 total display faces including 16 digital faces, primarily in […]

Billboards as Public Speech

You need to remind your regulators that billboards have a valuable function in providing a channel for public speech.  Here are three examples Billboard Insider noticed in the past month.  The first example is a straightforward election ad in St James Minnesota. The second example comes from Spokane, WA, where […]