In June 2017, municipal officials in Carson California declared a “fiscal emergency” after the council approved a budget with a deficit for the eighth time in the last 11 years. Officials warned that without a change in its spending habits, the city might be forced to declare bankruptcy by 2020. […]
Month: July 2018
Company of the Day – Delaware Outdoor
Company: Delaware Outdoor Advertising Markets: Delaware Headquarters: 7460 Lancaster Pike, Hockessin DE 19707 Phone: 302-234-1975 Email: BKilleen@delawareoutdoor.com Delaware Outdoor advertising operates a billboard plant with 36 faces in the following Delaware communities: Wilmington New Castle & Bear Hockessin The company’s President is Brendan Killeen. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement
Comstor installs its 1st digital billboard.
This is the second article in a three part series on an independent out of home company’s experience installing its first digital billboard. Comstor Outdoor has a 400 face plant in Ohio and Indiana. Comstor just installed its first digital billboard. We previously interviewed Comstor Marketing Executive Eddie Saunders Jr […]
Rothfelder on “Art vs. Sign”
By now, most of us have read in Billboard Insider and other publications about the US Supreme Court’s 2015 decision in Reed vs Town of Gilbert, basically holding that regulatory distinctions based on the content of messages displayed on signs violate the First Amendment. But, what about the more fundamental […]
Tariffs in effect on Chinese LED’s
If you’re buying a digital billboard soon you might want to ask your digital billboard company what impact, if any, will occur from the imposition of the first round of Chinese tariffs. LED’s, the building block for digital billboards, were on the list of items which faced a 25% import […]
Company of the Day: Inwindow Outdoor
Company: Inwindow Outdoor Markets: New York Address: 636 Broadway, Suite 520, New York, NY 10012 Phone: 212-254-2250 Email: beverly@inwindowoutdoor.com Inwindow Outdoor operates a digital and static billboards, cubes and experience stations in vacant storefronts. Insider talked with Beverly Denice Sparks a senior sales executive at the company. How did you […]
Out of the Office: Kevin Gleason
Fairway Outdoor’s CEO Kevin Gleason is serious about wine. As you read this Gleason will be tasting wine somewhere in the Southern Rhone region. Gleason also owns a winery called Refugio Ranch. The winery is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary in August. Congrats Kevin! Here’s a great video in which Kevin […]
Billboard insider Classifieds July 7
“The response has been excellent. Excellent investment.” Out of home broker Stephen Minnich. “…we have received no less than 15 responses the ad you ran for us to sell our Quad Cities billboard plant…” David Buring “FYI, today we got two requests from out of home companies to sign up. […]
Cincinnati passes Billboard Tax
On June 27 Cincinnati passed a 10% tax on billboard revenues as part of the city’s 2019 budget. The tax goes into effect July 1. The tax was passed over the mayors veto with two days public notice and no hearings. You can read more about the tax at WLWT5 […]
The Nortons on the Cincinnati Billboard Tax
On June 27 Cincinnati passed a 10% tax on billboard revenues to fund the city’s budget. If you are not paying attention you should. Baltimore has a billboard tax and Insider expects to see more cash-strapped cities attempt to pass billboard taxes to fund city services. Mike, Kevin and Tom […]