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Lamar Advertising Acquires Assets of AdSource Outdoor in UPREIT Transaction

BATON ROUGE, La., Aug. 13, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Lamar Advertising Company (Nasdaq: LAMR) (“Lamar” or the “Company”), a leading owner and operator of outdoor advertising assets, announced today that it has acquired the assets of AdSource Outdoor Advertising (“AdSource”) in the second-ever UPREIT transaction in the billboard industry. The […]

Rebecca Bowling celebrates 15 years at Kegerreis

By Kegerreis Outdoor Advertising Rebecca Bowling joined Kegerreis in 2011 as Eastern Region Sales Manager, bringing valuable experience in outdoor advertising and establishing herself as an integral member of the team. Today, she oversees a significantly larger territory and serves a diverse portfolio of clients, from local bus shelter campaigns […]

Company of the Day: Robinson Outdoor

Company: Robinson Outdoor Headquarters: 50 Robinson Industrial Dr., Perryville, MO 63775 Market: Missouri, Kentucky, Iowa & Illinois Phone: (573) 768-8100 Email: info@robinsonoutdoorllc.com In 1989, founder and CEO Ed Robinson started his first billboard company, Robinson Displays. After over 15 years of success, he sold his business to Lamar Advertising and focused his efforts elsewhere. […]

Child Actor to Billboard Entrepreneur – The Billy Tolson Story

Billboard Insider will run a series of interviews with out of home executive Billy Tolson, the President of Fairmount Outdoor.  Today Billy talks about starting as a child actor and transitioning to out of home. Billy, you were a child actor My story is pretty simple. I was in a […]

National CineMedia to Acquire Captivate for $275 million

CENTENNIAL, Colo.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–National CineMedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: NCMI) (“NCM”), the largest cinema advertising platform in the U.S., today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Captivate Holdings, LLC (“Captivate”), the leading operator of digital video elevator and lobby advertising in North America, for an enterprise value of […]

Company of the Day – RiseUp Outdoor

Company: RiseUp Outdoor Headquarters: 3245 Peachtree Parkway, Ste. D-111, Suwanee, GA 30024 Market: Lake Lanier, Georgia Telephone: 703-622-1129 Email: sales@riseupoutdoor.com RiseUp Outdoor specializes in hi-definition billboards located in the Lake Lanier region in Buford, Georgia. RiseUp’s signs are strategically located on heavily traveled I-985 showing to traffic heading from the Atlanta metro […]

JCDecaux renews Hamburg ad contract for 15 years

Paris, August 11th, 2026 – JCDecaux SE (Euronext Paris: DEC), the number one outdoor advertising company worldwide, announces that Wall GmbH, a company that is part of JCDecaux, has been awarded the main advertising contract in Hamburg, Germany’s second-largest city with 1.85 million inhabitants. The award follows a competitive tender […]

Company of the Day: Rex Media

Company: Rex Media Address: 801 Baldwin Park Blvd., Bassett CA 91746 Email: Sales@RexMediaUsa.com Phone: 323.688.3905 Founded in Los Angeles, Rex Media provides impactful and timely advertising messages for both National and Local advertisers in the Greater Los Angeles area of the San Gabriel Valley. Mohadib Bakali is the President of […]

Billboard Insider billboard software poll results

Lots of interest in billboard software to judge from the number of responses to our poll.  Here are the results.  40% of our respondents use Apparatix, 28% use something else, 14% still use an excel spreadsheet, 10% use Billboard Planet and 9% use SignDash.  We’d love to hear more about […]

DPAA Launches UK Chapter of WE.DOOH

  LONDON AND NEW YORK – August 11 2026 – DPAA, the global trade marketing association, driving the growth and digitisation of out-of-home media and its growing role in the omnichannel mix, has today announced the launch of a new UK chapter of its Women’s Empowerment in Digital Out of Home […]